Coronavirus has forced a rethink from the fashion industry – now is the time for it to clean up its act
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus has forced a rethink from the fashion industry – now is the time for it to clean up its act

The Independent  

Coronavirus has killed off the catwalk – the old way of presenting high fashion to wealthy customers and the press with snooty models parading to a packed salon has given way to the first digital showings. The revelation that one of the UK’s most successful fashion retailers, Boohoo, was using workers who weren’t even paid the minimum wage, has appalled the government and led the Home Office to ask the National Crime Agency to investigate the clothing factories of Leicester. The demand for cheap “fast fashion” in recent years, driven by young women, has seen Leicester’s fortune rise, but at awful human cost. Boohoo’s shares tumbled by more than £2bn this week – before bouncing back by around £700m – which signals a lack of confidence in the future of the fashion industry overall. Even the fashion press has had to admit that there’s nothing new to talk about – the other week one editor decided “track pants and gym wear are back”.

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How the luxury fashion firms have lost their sparkle as the super-rich feel the pinch
5 months, 1 week ago

How the luxury fashion firms have lost their sparkle as the super-rich feel the pinch

Daily Mail  

Just under £100billion has been wiped off the world’s biggest luxury firms in the past year. Disastrous stock performances have plagued companies including LVMH, Hermes, Prada, Gucci owner Kering and British brands Burberry and Mulberry. Losses: LVMH, the world’s largest luxury conglomerate, whose brands include Givenchy, Celine, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton, has haemorrhaged £81bn in a year The Paris …

Ultra-fast fashion: A disturbing trend undermining sustainability efforts across the industry
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Ultra-fast fashion: A disturbing trend undermining sustainability efforts across the industry

Hindustan Times  

Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. As one of the world’s first industry-led collective product stewardship initiatives for clothing textiles, Seamless presents a unique opportunity to drive change towards a more sustainable and circular fashion industry. The government-funded consortium must also recognise ultra-fast fashion in tackling the industry’s environmental and social …

Vogue World wowed but won’t pay the wages of young fashion designers
1 year, 3 months ago

Vogue World wowed but won’t pay the wages of young fashion designers

The Independent  

The giveaway was that it started with a fundraiser. Featuring performances from FKA Twigs, Sienna Miller, Damian Lewis, Stormzy, and many, many more, the West End-inspired extravaganza was held to celebrate and raise money for the UK’s performing arts scene, which American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour described as “under threat”. “I don’t think it has ever been more difficult to …

Glitzy Valentino show sees Paris Fashion Week at fever pitch
2 years, 3 months ago

Glitzy Valentino show sees Paris Fashion Week at fever pitch

Associated Press  

PARIS — Valentino’s Paris fashion show on Sunday saw snared lines of black cars dropping off battalions of celebrities who, amid the commotion, just couldn’t find the entrance. Fever pitch like this at Paris ready-to-wear is reminiscent of the French capital’s pre-pandemic fashion scene — and one more visible sign the industry is buoyant again after the devastation caused by …

Boohoo records £117 million drop in profits due to Covid
2 years, 8 months ago

Boohoo records £117 million drop in profits due to Covid

The Independent  

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Fast fashion isn’t cheap – the environment is paying for it
2 years, 10 months ago

Fast fashion isn’t cheap – the environment is paying for it

The Independent  

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Paris Fashion Week: How to watch the Fall-Winter 2022 menswear shows online
2 years, 11 months ago

Paris Fashion Week: How to watch the Fall-Winter 2022 menswear shows online

CNN  

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. CNN — It seemed another round of virtual catwalks was in store for the fashion industry this season, until France eased its coronavirus restrictions just days before the start of the Paris Fashion Week menswear shows on Tuesday. Now, 17 designers – including Loewe, Rick …

Was 2021 the year we moved away from fast fashion?
3 years ago

Was 2021 the year we moved away from fast fashion?

The Independent  

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How Fashion Industry Fared in 2021 And What it Means For 2022
3 years, 3 months ago

How Fashion Industry Fared in 2021 And What it Means For 2022

News 18  

2021 was quite an exciting year in the world of fashion. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpPIY7rJpB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/CT0ArT4FhJI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link In terms of the fashion economy, the State of Fashion 2022 report, written by Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company, named China as the “standout performer” in 2021, since its economy recovered much faster than those of other countries. The sixth annual report also predicted that …

How to ace the gown and play with colours? Ask Versace, Prada
3 years, 3 months ago

How to ace the gown and play with colours? Ask Versace, Prada

Live Mint  

Milan Fashion Week opened its third day of preview shows for next spring and summer against the backdrop of thousands of young environmental protesters calling out the industry for its wasteful and polluting ways. Some highlights from Friday’s shows: PRADA DECONSTRUCTS EVENING WEAR Prada returned to the live runway for the first time since February 2020, when the creative partnership …

Fashion brands should offer repair services to offset the number of clothes people throw away, British Fashion Council says
3 years, 3 months ago

Fashion brands should offer repair services to offset the number of clothes people throw away, British Fashion Council says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Consumers should buy half as many clothes and retailers should offer in-store repairing services to …

Haute Couture Week: Paris catwalks to reopen in July after long Covid-19 closure
3 years, 7 months ago

Haute Couture Week: Paris catwalks to reopen in July after long Covid-19 closure

Hindustan Times  

Parisian catwalks reopen in July as the French government unwinds coronavirus lockdown measures, allowing live fashions show to resume, in fashion industry body announced on Tuesday. The annual Haute Couture Week will take place from July 5 to July 8 and fashion houses will be allowed to organise live shows and presentations, according to a statement from the French fashion …

Why can’t the fashion industry go beyond clothes?
3 years, 9 months ago

Why can’t the fashion industry go beyond clothes?

Live Mint  

Now that the buzz around one of the most awaited fashion events of the pandemic-year calendar has settled, let’s take a look at the conversations FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week 2021 generated. When I asked one of India’s first designers, Tarun Tahiliani, why not too many voices from the industry go beyond the topics of fashion, crafts and design, pat …

What the next few seasons will look like for the fashion industry
3 years, 11 months ago

What the next few seasons will look like for the fashion industry

Hindustan Times  

It’s felt like a fashion famine, says Sunil Sethi, head of the Fashion Design Council of India, a non-profit organisation that represents the interests of the industry. “Starting in June, we saw a huge demand for comfort, lounge wear and fashion basics,” says Ayappan. “I realised that we generally don’t think about winter classics or working with wool when it …

2020, the year of the fashion film: As a pandemic forced an industry reckoning, a novel medium made an impact
4 years ago

2020, the year of the fashion film: As a pandemic forced an industry reckoning, a novel medium made an impact

Firstpost  

2020 will be remembered by the fashion industry for many reasons — the end of “seasons” as the industry knew them, the near-death of small and large retailers, and the closure of fashion magazines. The fashion film — a video capsule of about 5-11 minutes that showcases a designer’s clothes — replaced what would otherwise have been their presentation or …

Covid-19 is forcing us to make new fashion choices
4 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 is forcing us to make new fashion choices

Live Mint  

Never underestimate the power of getting out of the pyjamas for a zoom call. Deep discounts ‘Mega sale, upto 70% off’ screamed multiple posts on the Instagram page of the recently concluded Lotus Makeup Indian Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2021. Like many things, the pandemic forced a premium fashion event to relook at how they did business. Titled ‘Effectiveness of Fashion …

The shifting focus of fashion
4 years, 3 months ago

The shifting focus of fashion

Hindustan Times  

Covid-19 pandemic has cast its spell on the way we think, see and consume fashion. The result was evident in form of an inevitable uphill trajectory towards comfort fashion, one that’s visible at digital fashion weeks across the globe. With social media becoming our window to the world, the focus has shifted to waist-up trends like this one by Prada …

Fendi kicks off hybrid Milan Fashion Week with optimism
4 years, 3 months ago

Fendi kicks off hybrid Milan Fashion Week with optimism

Associated Press  

MILAN — The Italian fashion industry is moving to inject optimism into luxury’s dismal year, staging 23 live runway shows and 37 presentations during a hybrid live-digital Milan Fashion Week that aims to excite consumers and connect with the buying network. It has everything.″ Some highlights from Wednesday’s shows: ____ INSIDE FENDI LOOKING OUT Italy’s long 2 1/2 month lockdown …

NY Fashion Week 2020: Pared down, and virtually all virtual
4 years, 3 months ago

NY Fashion Week 2020: Pared down, and virtually all virtual

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — No celebs packing the front rows. “Ultimately fashion is a business, and Fashion Week is a platform for designers to do business,” says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which organizes the semi-annual event. For the 70-odd designers offering so-called “digital activations,” there’s a new platform from CFDA, Runway 360, where …

This fashion game-changer says we’ll all be watching 3-D runway shows in the future
4 years, 4 months ago

This fashion game-changer says we’ll all be watching 3-D runway shows in the future

LA Times  

Anifa Mvuemba, founder of the direct-to-consumer women’s apparel line Hanifa, didn’t set out to revolutionize the fashion industry when she had a viral 3-D runway show on Instagram this spring. “But I always wondered if it was possible to actually make them move, so that we can actually show our customers the movement of the fabrics.” Mvuemba’s May 22 show …

The pandemic is changing the future of fashion and shopping. Why that’s a good thing
4 years, 4 months ago

The pandemic is changing the future of fashion and shopping. Why that’s a good thing

LA Times  

Given the chaos and uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, trying to pin down the top fashion and beauty trends of a year hence feels as futile as trying to pick a living room wallpaper pattern while your house is on fire. “And that’s what we did as soon as our apparel factory opened back up.” She called the acceleration …

Paris Fashion Week 2020: With no paparazzis or parties, Paris prepares for virtual fashion week
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris Fashion Week 2020: With no paparazzis or parties, Paris prepares for virtual fashion week

Hindustan Times  

Paris is usually abuzz during its prestigious Haute Couture presentations in July, its hotels heaving with fashionistas and monuments turned into catwalk venues. Models present creations on a giant catwalk installed on a barge on the Seine River during a public event organized by L'Oreal as part of Paris Fashion Week, France, September 30, 2018. “The impact of a virtual …

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the fashion industry hard
4 years, 6 months ago

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the fashion industry hard

Deccan Chronicle  

With retailers and clothing units shutting shop, and millions of workers scrambling to make ends meet, nobody frankly knows the future of fashion. With retailers and clothing units shutting shop, and millions of workers scrambling to make ends meet, nobody frankly knows the future of fashion or the new ‘quarantrends’. I won’t be surprised if we are pushed back by …

Paris Fashion Week to go ahead in September 2020 amid coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 6 months ago

Paris Fashion Week to go ahead in September 2020 amid coronavirus pandemic

Hindustan Times  

Fashion lovers have been deprived of live runway shows since March this year and with the announcement of Paris Fashion Week SS ‘21, a large number of fashion enthusiasts are expected to head to the French capital to see the 2021 collections. The Paris fashion week, by far the world’s biggest and most important, is going to begin in September …

For global fashion industry, impact of coronavirus pandemic presents both crisis — and opportunity to recast itself – Firstpost
4 years, 6 months ago

For global fashion industry, impact of coronavirus pandemic presents both crisis — and opportunity to recast itself – Firstpost

Firstpost  

The fashion industry has taken a hard hit due to the COVID-19 crisis. From the material to the spiritual, the supply chain to the ideological basis of its existence — every aspect of the industry is being wrung out to dry because of what’s being called ‘fashion’s Darwinian shakeout’. From the material to the spiritual, the supply chain to the …

Gucci quits fashion week and criticises 'worn-out ritual' of seasonal shows
4 years, 7 months ago

Gucci quits fashion week and criticises 'worn-out ritual' of seasonal shows

The Independent  

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Gucci abandons ‘worn-out ritual’ of fashion seasons as the industry looks inward
4 years, 7 months ago

Gucci abandons ‘worn-out ritual’ of fashion seasons as the industry looks inward

CNN  

CNN — Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele has announced that the brand is permanently abandoning the traditional fashion calendar as the industry rethinks how it operates in the light of Covid-19. In a series of diary entries titled “Notes from the Silence,” posted to Michele’s Instagram account Sunday, the designer said he intended to “abandon the worn-out ritual of seasonalities …

Fashion in the time of Covid-19: In a first, Milan Fashion Week goes digital
4 years, 8 months ago

Fashion in the time of Covid-19: In a first, Milan Fashion Week goes digital

Hindustan Times  

Italy will stage its first digital Fashion Week in Milan in July, as the luxury fashion sector struggles to rebound from the coronavirus crisis. “Milano Digital Fashion Week” from July 14-17 will allow for the presentation of spring/summer 2021 men’s collections and spring/summer 2021 men’s and women’s pre-collections, along with a platform designed to give access to showrooms. The French …

Creativity in crisis: Is your mobile screen the new ramp in a COVID-19-hit world?
4 years, 8 months ago

Creativity in crisis: Is your mobile screen the new ramp in a COVID-19-hit world?

Hindustan Times  

Crisis always brings opportunities to think out-of-the-box and invent novel solutions. Londonfashionweek.co.uk will be accessible to all audiences, embracing the cultural commentary, creativity and humorous spirit for which British Fashion and London are known.” Creation by designer Roberta Einer at London Fashion Week Recently all fashion weeks and events were put on a halt and the fashion calendar was thrown …

London Fashion Week to become online-only event amid coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

London Fashion Week to become online-only event amid coronavirus pandemic

The Independent  

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Coronavirus: Luxury fashion stores pull down shutters amid ‘unprecedented times’
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Luxury fashion stores pull down shutters amid ‘unprecedented times’

The Independent  

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Face masks ‘hot item’ at London Fashion Week amid virus fears
4 years, 10 months ago

Face masks ‘hot item’ at London Fashion Week amid virus fears

Al Jazeera  

Some designers changed or cancelled their shows due to factory shutdowns in China as global coronavirus worries spread. Fashionistas sported face masks and clutched their hand sanitizers at Friday’s opening of London Fashion Week in what is expected to be a lacklustre turnout as the world reels with growing anxiety over the coronavirus outbreak. The annual gathering is taking precautions …

Does fast fashion have to die for the environment to live?
5 years, 2 months ago

Does fast fashion have to die for the environment to live?

LA Times  

Shoppers walk into an H&M store in New York. “If your business model is based on volume, that’s not what’s part of the sustainable movement in any industry,” said Dana Thomas, a journalist and author of “Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.” “Zero waste is the goal, and you’re not hitting the zero waste targets …

What will fashion be like 20 years from now?
5 years, 8 months ago

What will fashion be like 20 years from now?

BBC  

What will fashion be like 20 years from now? “We’re finally seeing the digital industry revolutionise age-old practice and evolving over the next 20 years,” says Rachel Stott of The Future Laboratory. “Immaterial and digital fashion offers opportunities for brands to exert creativity, and connect with consumers through a different medium.” Alamy In TV series The Expanse the post-apocalyptic look …

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