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How well do you know your fashion designers?

In view of designers changing jobs all the time, new talents coming in and rumours about the fashion houses and their creative directors abounding, it is easy to lose track of things. How well do you know the different fashion houses? Which designers have been at the top of the different fashion houses for years? Where have there been changes...

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Fashion’s Top 7 Maestros of Color, Past and Present

New York - Most designers deal in color and our runways are rainbow-flavored. Trendspotting websites analyze international fashion weeks to determine the overriding palette that will dictate our future shopping habits and then compile endless reports. Black and white remain commercial stalwarts, but debates might arise along the lines of which...

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Design By Algorithm; Will Robots Replace Fashion Designers?

As I welcome a new group of design students to my class this week, I find myself contemplating this question as the buzz around Artificial Intelligence heats up. StitchFix, a Silicon Valley-based subscription box service, already uses algorithms based on customer feedback to create the perfect blouse. Styles are broken down into variables––a...

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Fashion bloggers turned fashion designers

FashionUnited have brought you plenty of stories charting the phenomenal rise of the fashion blogger, from abstract, back of the line fashion voice, to street style interest, to major influencer and brand dominator. Now it seems fashion bloggers have segued into yet more new territory; as the fashion designer or label collaborator. So take...