Fashion Week news and archive

Riga Fashion week 2025: Latvian fashion faces geopolitical challenges

Riga Fashion Week, held from April 7th to 10th, 2025, in the Latvian capital, showcases the resilience of a small European nation's fashion designers who are focusing on the local market. The overall impression left by the collections of Latvian designers at Riga Fashion Week 2025 is one of free expression. This need for creative freedom is...

Fashion |IN PICTURES Featured

MBBFW: 5 Romanian labels to have on the radar

For the second edition of Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week (MBBFW), held from March 27-30, the schedule brought together more than 20 designers from Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Moldavia and Italy. After reviewing the shows, we now turn our attention to the Romanian scene, a thriving creative ecosystem. Established labels such as Nissa...

Fashion Featured

Fashion as cultural diplomacy: Ukrainian Fashion Week FW 25/26

How does one find beauty – and focus on it – amidst suffering? This is the question Ukrainian Fashion Week once again sought to answer. For the second time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the onset of the war in 2022, the event returned to Kyiv after it made its first comeback as a fashionable beacon of hope in September. Hope remains a...

Fashion Featured

Away from the Big 4: 7 Alternative European fashion weeks to have on the radar

The fashion week season in Milan, Paris, London and New York has been ushered in, however, away from the ‘Big 4’, other cities across Europe have been championing their own events, hoping to get a slice of the international stage. There have already been some European cities in which fashion weeks that had first been pitted as “up-and-coming”...

Fashion

Chiuri delves into past for what could be last Dior fashion show

Paris, Jan 27, 2025 (AFP) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri delivered what industry insiders say might be her last collection for Dior on Monday, on the first day of Paris Haute Couture Week. Models with Mohawk-inspired hairstyles, adorned with feathers woven into their braids, walked the runway in retro draped skirts or short crinolines...

Fashion Featured

Ljubljana Fashion Week: A decade of sustainable innovation

Ljubljana Fashion Week (LJFW) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and 15th edition, solidifying the Slovenian capital's position as a burgeoning hub for sustainable fashion. The five-day event, held from October 7-11 at the Rog Center, showcased 46 collections, underlining the city's growing influence in the global fashion landscape. A...

Fashion Featured

Runway to resale: Fashion week trends that drive demand in the secondhand market

With Fashion Month concluding on October 1st in Paris, focusing on Spring/Summer 2025, it has sparked an immediate buying frenzy in the secondhand market. Fashion Weeks are now more influential than ever, particularly on resale platforms, where fashion enthusiasts rush to find pieces that echo what they’ve admired on the runway. From high-demand...

BusinessFeaturedMember

Fashion Week: Profitable investment or poker move?

Fashion week, while a true showcase for the fashion industry, is a complex strategic operation. Paris Fashion Week kicked off on 23 September, offering experts the chance to take a look behind the scenes of such an event. Recent reports reveal the fundamentals of this industry: the costs are exorbitant, but so are the profitability stakes. So...

Fashion

Musical chairs at top as Paris Fashion Week starts

Paris - Paris Fashion Week starts Monday in a swirl of rumours of musical chairs at some of the sector's most fabled brands. Falling profits at the two luxury giants LVMH and Kering have sent a shudder through the industry, fuelling talk of a "Game of Thrones" among top designers. Celine's Hedi Slimane and Simon Porte Jacquemus — the young...

Fashion

London Fashion Week: Burberry gives the trench coat a streetwear edge

London, Sept 16, 2024 (AFP) - With a Spring/Summer 2025 collection reinventing the iconic trench coat with a streetwear edge, English designer Daniel Lee brought a breath of fresh air on Monday to fashion giant Burberry, hit by financial troubles. The designer, who has been at the creative helm of Burberry for the past two years, departed from...

Background

The fashion system: The fashion seasons explained

Fashion expert José Teunissen was once quoted stating : "What characterises fashion is its urge to innovate. Every six months, fashion presents itself as a moment where the spirit of time is captured in a moment of absolute beauty." *Source: José Teunissen's chapter 'The universe of fashion' in Artez Press' book 'Fashion and imagination on...

Fashion

Paris, Milan, London and New York SS24 key trends

With all four major fashion weekscompleted, there is an opportunity to review the major trends. Seasonal trends reflect the way consumers see the world at the macro level. The ‘Barbie’ movie not only grossed well over a billion dollars; it married feminist ideals with ‘girlie’ fashion. This was a clear influence on the ss24 collections. After...