The Chinese luxury consumer is changing with a number of factors coming together to drive this, according to the Bain & Company’s 2015 China Luxury Market Study. Last year, Chinese consumers from the mainland continued to buy luxury products but they bought them abroad as currency issues in places like Japan and Europe made travel very…
After launching the Tribal Spirit micro collection this February, featuring Kendall Jenner, Mango has now unveiled Soft Minimal, the second trend to be highlighted in advertising campaigns for SS16 And the look? It pays tribute to the minimalist style of the 90s, we’re told. Mango is using Liu Wen, Asia’s most ‘international’ model, as the collection’s face.
The bad news continues for Prada but it does have some developments to crow about with its smaller Miu Miu brand continuing to power ahead. The Italian giant released its full-year results yesterday and they didn’t make happy reading. Sales rose an anaemic 1% to €3.55bn having risen only 1% in 2014 too. You have…
Bergdorf Goodman may not be able to offer runway label fashion instantly like the labels can for themselves but it’s doing everything it can to get in on the insta-fashion act. Moving into the get-there-quickly space previously occupied mainly by Moda Operandi, the US retail giant will be offering early access to the AW16 collections of…
I’m beginning to feel like a broken record. For those of you too old to remember broken records, when an old-style vinyl disc got scratched, the needle would get stuck and repeat the same bits again, and again, and agin…. Well that’s me this NYFW. The words I’m stuck on are “shearling coats,” “oversized parkas,”…
H&M had a major hit with its Coachella collaboration last year and so the fashion retail giant is teaming up with the king of festivals again this year for a collaboration that takes in clothes, accessories and a social media blitz. Its co-branded Coachella collection launches next month in US stores (March 24, with a…
We’ve heard a lot lately about the wrong kind of weather for the fashion industry. Mild autumns and winters have meant knits and coats stayed firmly on store shelves until clearance sale time. But designers must think AW16 is going to be a chilly few months because knits and coats are just what they’ve been…
On the Grammys red carpet it wasn’t so much a case of lining up behind which celeb you wanted to win but which colour corner you felt drawn to. The red carpet channelled current colour trends with the clashing brights and degradé effects that we’re seeing on the current AW16 runways, as well as the intense…
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…
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