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London loses its place as the World's Fashion Capital

London, who was previously declared to be the world's fashion capital two years in a row, has lost it's title according to the Global Fashion Capital Index tenth annual survey for 2013. The English capital city slid into third place, as New York city beat Paris by the smallest difference registered in ten years, 0.05 percent, to claim the title,...

Design

London named most fashionable capital

London has been crowned the Top Global Fashion Capital, edging out New York for the second consecutive year, thanks to the popularity of the Duchess of Cambridge and the successful Olympic Games. According to the Global Language Monitor’s annual ranking of the Top Fifty Fashion Capitals, New York took second spot in the list, closely followed by...

Fashion

London takes top fashion capital spot

According to new research from trend analysts, Global Language Monitor, London has overtaken New York as fashion capital of the world. The Texas-based company analyses words, phrases and concepts in relation to the frequency with which they are mentioned on the blogosphere, the 75,000 print and electronic media, as well as new social media...