The SS17 action wasn’t all about what happened on the runways yesterday as four major names released the lookbooks for their secondary lines. Red Valentino, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, M Missoni and McQ by Alexander McQueen all offered clues as to the direction this quartet of influencers will be following for their mainline labels, as…
Will you get your must-have items this autumn? It could all depend on whether a solution is found following the collapse of Korean shipping giant Hanjin. It seems around $10.8bn/£8bn worth of goods are stuck in or outside of ports and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Debenhams opens in Australia in exactly one year’s time and it expects to make a major impact. The retailer is debuting in Melbourne in a deal with Pepkor and expects to take sales of around A$20m from the dominant players David Jones and Myer. How will it do that? By shaking up the affordable designer…
Welcome to the year 2000. That’s what it felt like watching Tom Ford’s latest runway collection yesterday. Is that a criticism? Not at all, because the collection was really rather good.
Yesterday was a day for honesty in the fashion industry. Not only did Under Armour’s CFO Chip Molloy (great name) admit that the fast-growing brand only sponsored the US Olymics team for the social media buzz it generated rather than for a sales boost, but Gap’s CEO admitted that there are no compelling trends to…
Samsung Pay celebrated its first birthday last month and hit 100m transactions worldwide (well, from the seven countries in which it was available). But in a world where m-commerce is surging, there still seems to be a lot of consumer resistance to smartphone-based mobile wallets in some countries. That’s despite many shoppers in those countries…
The trend police tell us that stretch denim is so over. Now it’s all about the hard stuff. Rigid denim of the kind I remember from my youth when stretch denim was about as uncool as it was possible to get. Which puts the ultra-cool among us at odds with much of what’s going on…
But they’ll be able to reduce their carbon footprints at Selfridges soon as the retailer is teaming up with British car firm Morgan to launch a no-emissions electric car with a “concept to retail” sustainability trail.
You only live once. That’s the attitude of a many young adults and it means they’d rather spend than save, a new survey says. Yes, it’s those millennials again – the current favourite generation to be surveyed, scrutinised and analysed – and this study suggests they’re worried about their future but not necessarily worried enough…
Sainsbury’s is really going for it this season and has big news on the fashion front. The supermarket giant, which has been hurt by the on-going tough UK supermarket sector and which is buying Argos to expand its business, is going after the premium fashion sector with its latest launch. A step too far for…
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