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Madrid to host Tech&Crafts 2026, an international conference on engineering in fashion design and production

Madrid will host the third edition of the Tech&Crafts International Conference from March 18 to 20, presented in 2026 under the title Fashion Engineering. The event will present fashion as a technical, productive and cultural system, focusing on the role of engineering applied to design and industrial management. The 2026 edition proposes...

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Ruffles, feathers and crochet: Madrid turns craftsmanship into a trend

The collections of this season's Madrid Fashion Week were centred around handcrafted details, the cultural background of Spain and were often linked to occasion and bridal fashion. Some elements regularly return season-after-season to the Spanish fashion event, while others spiced up the overall look and feel of the occasion. While out and about...

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What Generation Z Wants From the Retail Industry

Millennials are no longer the main target for retail sales today. Generation Z, consumers between the age of 8 and 28, are the future buyers that marketeers in this industry must cater to according to the experts speaking at the World Retail Congress. Within the framework of this event, which took place earlier this week in Madrid, Carla Buzani,...

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World Retail Congress: Luxury changes its way of communicating

Luxury retail leaders Sébastien Badault, International Director of the Luxury and Fashion line of Alibaba, Adam Pritzker Founder of Assembled Brands, and Frédéric de Narp, CEO of Bally discussed the future of luxury industry at the World Retail Congress this week. All three of the leaders agreed that the definition of luxury has expanded from...

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Recap: 2018 World Retail Congress in Madrid

“'The heart of the retail sector is not just changing, but sometimes the fundamentals no longer apply", said Ian McGarrigle, Chairman of the World Retail Congress on the level of change in today's retail market at the World Retail Congress which took place from April 17 to 19. He highlighted events such as Amazon acquiring US grocery store,...

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Kicking off the World Retail Congress in Madrid: El Corte Inglés, Tendam and Inditex

The World Retail Congress kicks off in Madrid today, and FashionUnited is there. Since 2007 this annual, three-day forum brings together today’s retail leaders from around the world to discuss key-issues, network, and forecast the retail future. The congress was introduced by Pablo Isla, President of Inditex, Dimas Gimeno, President of El Corte...

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María Clè Leal presents collection during MBFWA

Spanish designer María Clè Leal, who was recently awarded with the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Talent Award, presented her Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 collection during the final night of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam to a full-house, which included guest of honor and face of MBFWA Spring/Summer 2016, model Doutzen Kroes. Clè Leal was invited to...