Home

Tags

FASHION

Fashion news and archive

Halston's legacy inspires the future of fashion on his 90th birthday

The family of late designer Halston, along with the team behind WithLoveHalston.org hosted an afternoon of fashion, art and anecdotes last Sunday in New York City to honor what would have been the designer’s 90th birthday. Fashion luminaries such as Fern Mallis, Ken Downing, designers Ralph Rucci, Naeem Khan, and jeweler David Yurman, were on...

27 Apr 2022

Culture

Vans introduces new livestream broadcast channel 66

Vans has launched a digital livestream network broadcasting weekdays from Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Mexico City. Channel 66 will be available to audiences worldwide and offers live audio and video broadcasting featuring DJ sets, talk shows with pro skateboarders, workshops, live musical performances, sports coverage, fashion news,...

16 Feb 2021

Fashion Featured

The UK should be ‘ready for a spending boom’ once lockdown lifts

UK residents are optimistic about life after the lockdown. According to recent consumer survey research, the UK should reap the benefits of an economic boost through a spending boom. Research indicates that consumers responded positively to vaccine rollouts, with 86 percent saying they would get the vaccine, according to consumer and location...

16 Feb 2021

Fashion

Givenchy dresses The Weeknd for 55th Super Bowl halftime show

Givenchy creative director Matthew M. Williams designed custom pieces specially for the superstar’s performance on Sunday. The Weeknd wore a fully hand-embroidered jacket with crystals, created by the Givenchy Haute Couture atelier in Paris. The jacket took more than 250 hours to complete by four different embroiderers working on it, according...

8 Feb 2021

Fashion

Hugo Boss and the NBA create co-branded capsule collections

Hugo Boss and the NBA have collaborated to create two capsule collections for spring/summer 2021 and fall/winter 2021. NBA champion Draymond Green has been named as the face of the collections. In the spring/summer collection, items include long and short-sleeve hooded sweatshirts, crew neck sweatshirts, long and short-sleeve T-shirts,...

5 Feb 2021

Retail

UK online fashion sales surge in January

UK fashion retailers saw revenues soar 124 percent higher in January compared to the same period last year, new data reveals. The surge in online spending comes as non-essential stores are still closed to the UK public. That’s according to data gathered from Salesfire’s eCommerce analytics platform, TrendDesk, which collects information from...

4 Feb 2021

Fashion

U.S Polo Association launches new sustainability initiative

U.S. Polo Assn., the official brand for the United States Polo Association (USPA), has launched a new sustainability initiative. USPA Life, the brand’s long-term sustainability program, will include sustainable polo shirts for men, women, and kids, denim made from recycled water bottles, recycled packaging for products, and high quality recycled...

4 Feb 2021

Fashion

Off-White creates a digital experience for SS21 collection

Virgil Abloh, creative director of Off-White, has debuted his spring-summer 2021 collection via an immersive digital experience called Imaginary TV. The multi-media digital event was custom-created for the day, with the collection titled “Adam is Eve.” The see-now, buy-now collection teased the launch of a new must-have accessory called The...

3 Feb 2021

Fashion

Dua Lipa releases her second design collaboration with Pepe Jeans for Spring/Summer 2020.

Global pop superstar Dua Lipa releases her second design collaboration with Pepe Jeans for Spring/ Summer 2020. For this collection Dua drew inspiration from British Summers and LA sunshine - to create a collection for onstage or off stage cool looks. The campaign was shot by Charlotte Wales and captures Dua’s onstage energy when performing. The...

3 Mar 2020

Business |ANALYSIS

Growing pains of ill-sized clothing for both consumers and brands

New York - In the U.S. alone, Statista estimates return deliveries will cost 550 billion dollars by the end of this year, that’s 75.2 percent more than four years prior. Notably, that number doesn’t include restocking expenses nor inventory losses. Size and fit were the top reasons why people return online orders, according to an analysis from...

1 Jan 2020

Retail |ANALYSIS Featured

Black Friday 2019 – First sales stats revealed

New York - According to stats compiled by LicenseGlobal, as of early morning of Thanksgiving Day – the day prior to Black Friday – consumers in the U.S. had already spent 2.1 billion dollars via online retail, raising the year-on-year digital growth for the period to 20.2 percent. By early afternoon the same day, the U.S. online spent doubled to...

29 Nov 2019

Fashion

Sustainability a key theme for upcoming Fashion SVP

Fashion SVP is the fastest growing apparel and accessory sourcing and manufacturing expo in the UK and takes place from 25-26 June 2019 in the heart of London. The bi-annual expo attracts sourcing teams, fashion buyers, designers and retailers who come to source their future collections, to meet potential new manufacturing partners, to absorb...

4 Apr 2019