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Riyadh Air to revive the golden age of travel with couture cabin uniforms

Riyadh Air, the world’s newest global airline, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), closed out Paris Haute Couture Week with the unveiling of its cabin crew’s uniforms designed by Saudi Arabian designer Mohammed Ashi, founder of Ashi Studio. “It’s not cabin crew ‘uniforms,’ it’s cabin crew fashion,” declared Tony Douglas, chief...

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Bringing luxury to luggage, the 100-year-old British brand Antler eyes US growth

The 100-year old British brand, Antler, is redefining luxury travel experiences for modern jet setters. The brand is in flight to have its biggest summer of travel ever and with a 12-month retail residency beginning next month in the heart of NYC’s Soho it’s ready to demonstrate to the US market why, after a century in business, its journey has...

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Antler launching ‘residency’ retail experience in New York

British travel brand Antler is opening its first standalone retail space in New York City in July. Located on Spring Street in SoHo, the store will act as a 'residency' retail experience, showcasing the brand’s heritage and legacy alongside its products as it looks to build customer loyalty. The “world of travel” destination will operate as a...

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Timothy London opens European flagship store

British premium luggage brand Timothy London has opened its European flagship store on Jermyn Street in London. The 2,267 square foot space has been designed to showcase the brand’s growing product offering in an environment that reflects Timothy London’s “fusion of classic British design and modernity” with muted panelled walls, oak parquet...

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Hackett London launches collaboration with Carl Friedrik

Premium British menswear brand Hackett London has unveiled a collaboration with London-born contemporary travel accessories brand Carl Friedrik. The four-piece capsule collection of travel goods has been tailored for the “modern globe-trotter of discerning taste,” explains both brands and offers understated style, functionality and quality for...

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Naomi Campbell drops travel capsule with Boss

German fashion brand Boss has unveiled a travel capsule collection designed “in close” collaboration with supermodel Naomi Campbell as it looks to accelerate growth in womenswear. The Naomi x Boss collection launches today, February 15, and has been designed to target the contemporary, sophisticated traveller with a line of “laid-back”...

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Fashion and travel; a love story for the ages

The eye has to travel,” said the former Vogue editor and empress of fashion, Diana Vreeland. In 1966 she famously flew her team to a snowy Japanese mountain range along with fifteen trunks of clothes for five weeks to shoot model Veruschka dressed in fur for the magazine at a rumored cost of 1 million dollars. It was an unprecedented gesture...

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Craghoppers x National Trust: The Sustainable Outdoor Adventurer

Designed for all adventurers and driven by a mutual desire to care for our planet, Craghoppers and the National Trust come together with their first sustainable collection. With an innovative and sustainable mindset, British outdoor and adventure travel brand Craghoppers has teamed up with Europe’s largest conservation charity, the National...

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Perfect Corp to debut AR beauty solutions in airports via new partnership

Tech firm Perfect Corp has unveiled a new partnership with travel retailer Dufry, which will see its artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) beauty solutions debut in a number of duty free airport locations. The deal introduces in-store and virtual makeup try-ons for 15 brands – including Benefit, Kylie Cosmetics and Huda Beauty...

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Japan Airlines launches clothing rental trial for travellers

Japan Airlines (JAL), together with Sumitomo Corporation, has announced the launch of a new clothing share service trial for foreign tourists and business travellers to Japan, through which it is looking to measure environmental value. By introducing the trial, which runs from now up until August 31, 2024, JAL is hoping to address the increase...

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Monsoon opens new travel boutique in Waterloo Station

Fashion retailer Monsoon is opening a new travel boutique concept in London’s Waterloo Station on June 21. Located on the balcony at Waterloo Station, the store will serve as a testing ground for Monsoon’s travel boutique concept, offering seasonal collections and travel essentials drawn from its women’s clothing and accessories ranges. In...

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Fashion travel brand Nere launches in the UK

Australian fashion travel brand Nere has expanded to the UK after successfully launching in its home country and New Zealand in 2022. Nere offers a range of suitcases, travel bags and accessories “for the style-conscious traveller,” with a vision of making “travel more fashionable” by offering consumers travel options to embrace self-expression...