If the Altuzarra collection hasn’t been on your radar before now, it’s time to start tracking it. For AW16, it was full of covetable pieces that mixed the soft and hard, the light and the heavy and the simple and the decorative. Here are my top five picks from the show.
The Tommy Hilfiger show was one that couldn’t be ignored in New York today. Was that because of the clothes? Hmmm. Not necessarily. The InstaPit for the biggest social media influencers (ie those with massive followings who can guarantee instant coverage of the brand) was perhaps the biggest news. Evenewithout that, after last season’s standout…
OK, first question: Did UK shoppers hit the stores in January? Yes! That was the resounding answer from the latest footfall stats released today by the British Retail Consortium and Springboard. In fact, footfall rose 1.2% year-on-year. It may be a small number in universal terms but in terms of store footfall it was big……
Blumarine’s younger label Blugirl has gone for a retro celebration of all-thing-Californian for its SS16 campaign with model Charlotte Cardin looking like an extra from The Graduate-meets-Love-Story-meets-Stepford-Wives. Shot by Michelangelo di Battista and styled by Viviana Volpicella, the movie links are underscored by the fact that the campaign was shot at Universal Studios in Hollywood…
China is trying to turn itself from a classic industry-based emerging market into a consumer-led one. Is it succeeding? The latest retail spending figures for China’s big New Year spring festival, which is as much about shopping as anything else these days, suggest it is. And the world is breathing a sigh of relief.
New creative chief Massimo Giorgetti has gone for a new look with the first Emilio Pucci campaign under his watch. Gone are the supermodels for which the brand is known to be replaced by new faces Odette Pavolova and Kadri Vahersalu as the brand’s faces.
Copenhagen Fashion Week recently reminded of two things. Firstly, just how casual fashion is at the moment (and by fashion, I mean the stuff we actually wear rather than the stuff that gets photographed for magazines). Secondly, the importance of the leather jacket as the standalone trend piece. It’s the fashion gift that just keeps on…
Tommy Hilfiger is the latest luxury brand to move into the ‘show-it, want-it, buy-it’ space as of September with its autumn 16 collection. The brand’s New York Fashion Week show in September will be a multi-media broadcast runway production staged for a consumer and press audience, with all styles immediately available for purchase through retail,…
We may have seen nearly two decades in which denim has been a key fashion product category but we’ve also seen a similar period in which jeans giant Levi-Strauss has struggled. So are Levi’s fortunes still heading in the opposite direction to the denim sector itself? Hmmm. It would appear so on the surface. But maybe…
Christian Dior Couture took in €1.87bn last year. That was a 17.1% rise, which is pretty impressive in a world where luxury is supposed to be hurting. OK, exchange rate effects from the weak euro helped a lot. But even without that, revenue was up 7% and operating profits rose an even-better 20.6% to €240m.…
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