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LA casualwear label Velvet acquired by Adastria

Velvet, a California-based contemporary apparel company best known for the brand Velvet by Graham and Spencer is to be acquired by Japanese multi-brand apparel company Adastria. The Japanese group, which operates 21 brands across Japan and Asia, is targeting the North American market with its second investment in the country. In April 2016,...

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Armani applies a velvet touch to suit revival at Milan Fashion Week

Giorgio Armani showed his velvet touch on Monday as he brought down the curtain on a Milan fashion week heralded as marking a revival of the suit-based womenswear he pioneered in the 1980s. Velvet has always been one of the Milanese maestro's favourite materials and it is ubiquitous in his autumn-winter collection: black as the darkest night...