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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

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

Culture REVIEW

Exhibit tackling fashion and race boosts diversity dialogue

New York - Given the conversation around diversity that has ignited the fashion industry over the past several years, an exhibition examining race and fashion might seem overdue. It took a professor from Parsons who since 2016 has been teaching an elective class entitled “Fashion and Race” at at the school to deliver it. “Fashion and Race:...

2 Nov 2018

Business

Brexit timeline: How the UK referendum result has affected the fashion industry

It’s hard to believe that the Brexit referendum, which took place way back on 23 June, 2016, has been a staple topic for rowdy pub chats and friendship-ending Facebook statuses for over two years already. As 29 March quickly approaches - and the whole of the UK twiddles their thumbs in shared anticipation - FashionUnited asks the question: how...

31 Oct 2018

Fairs IN-DEPTH

SuperNova displays the fashion world of tomorrow

Antwerp - From here on out, the term technology will be synonymous with Antwerp. Last weekend the SuperNova festival took place for the very first time, an event displaying the future of technology, proving that the fashion world, too, is no stranger to the ever-growing wave of digitalization. From flying cars to cocktail-mixing robots, from...

5 Oct 2018

Business

Optimising in-store digital experience helps fashion retailers increase revenue 25 percent

In a world where shopping experiences are influenced by digital in 75 percent of cases, digital already directly drives more than a third of all retail sales, and it further influences a much higher percentage, concludes a recent report by BRP & Windstream Enterprise. ‘Retail’s Digital Crossroads: The Race to Meet Shopper Expectations’ study...

30 Jul 2018

Culture EXHIBITION

Viktor&Rolf exhibition showcases the success of the 'polder model'

Amsterdam - "The only thing we ever disagree about is the temperature in the car," joked Rolf Snoeren when asked how his collaboration with Viktor Horsting has been going for the past 25 years. "We always say that we are a good example of the polder model; we keep on talking until there is a consensus," added Horsting during the press preview of...

30 May 2018

Business

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wedding expected to give UK retail a boost

“We have real earnings growth coupled with a royal wedding and two bank holidays around the corner. Maybe with the right weather, the combination of these factors could be just the boost retailers have been hoping for,” says the head of retail and wholesale at BDO, Sophie Michael, in a recent report. BDO, an accountancy and business advisory...

7 May 2018

Fashion

H&M called out for failing to pay all its workers a fair, living wage by 2018

London - Although Swedish fashion company H&M previously pledged to pay its 850,000 garment workers a 'fair living wage' by 2018, the group has since changed its strategy. Now the Clean Clothes Campaign, the industry’s largest alliance of labour unions and non-governments organisations, has accused the H&M Group of trying to hide its unfulfilled...

13 Apr 2018

Fashion REPORT

Sustainability Report 2017: How H&M aims to lead the way to a sustainable fashion future

The H&M Group aims to be a catalyst for sustainable change across the fashion industry, which is why the Swedish fashion company has set itself some of number of sustainability targets. "We have one of the most advanced and ambitious sustainability goals in the industry today," confirmed Anna Gedda, Head of Sustainability at H&M to FashionUnited...

12 Apr 2018