There’s a huge buzz around this runway season as it’s the one where the whole ‘show now, buy now, wear now’ movement really kicks in. And there’s a huge buzz around the ad campaigns that are being released thick and fast at the moment. So when Burberry releases teaser images from its upcoming collection via…
So LVMH is selling DKNY to G-III Apparel with G-III’s CEO calling DKNY “iconic” and LVMH’s MD saying the “time was right”. Apart from that opening sentence probably containing more initial letters than any I’ve written in my entire life, there’s no actual surprise there. The fact is that the US-based Donna Karan business never…
So, Maria Grazia Chiuri has got the Dior women’s creative director job. Is anyone surprised? Not really as it must be the worst kept secret of recent times in the fashion sector. It may not mean much in terms of the wider fashion industry but it’s a significant move. As a 52-year-old woman, it’s the…
The Valentino couture collection wasn’t as easy to like as it usually is. Austere it certainly was. Unmissable too. But it lacked the light touch we’ve come to expect from the 25-year partnership of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli. Maybe that was no surprise because that partnership is now over. Chiuri’s departure from the…
How valuable is a creative head to a high-end brand? Very. Just how valuable has become clear following the latest development in Hedi Slimane’s legal dispute with his ex-employer Kering. Slimane has just won a $13m settlement in his contractual dispute with the owner of the Yves Saint Laurent brand after a Paris commercial court made a…
Dior is preparing to name one half of Valentino’s dynamic duo as creative chief, according to a Reuters report today. If true, it means Maria Grazia Chiuri, who with Pierpaolo Piccioli has helped to reinvent the Valentino brand and drive it to impressive growth, would be Dior’s first ever female creative head. She had been most…
Lacoste, then Hermès and now… Uniqlo. Maybe a few years ago that wouldn’t have been a great career path but Uniqlo has much-deserved ambitions to become the global number one and Christophe Lemaire is one of the best of a clutch designers who really know how to combine fashion with the ultra casual and commercial.
I really like the Dior brand. Always have done. I’ve got a Dior coat (bought in a sale), some Dior Fusion trainers (bought on eBay) and a Dior shirt (bought in a vintage store). The first grown-up skincare I bought 38 years ago was Dior. I loved what John Galliano did there and I loved…
Success in fashion isn’t necessarily dependent on talent and some of the most talented designers fail, especially when they’re UK-based. But now Jonathan Saunders is off to better financed climes with the news that he’s the new creative director at Diane von Furstenberg.
This is a blog, right? And blogs are supposed to be personal. Well, I try not to be too “me, me, me” in what I write for Trendwalk. But I’m going to break my rule to speak out about how I feel about Vetements. Because I don’t get it. I really don’t get it.
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