It looks like it really will be all-change at Chloé as Clare Waight Keller focuses on a better work-life balance and steps down while Louis Vuitton’s hugely respected Natacha Ramsay-Levi steps up to the role after a lot of years spent working for Nicolas Ghesquiere. What does that actually mean in practice? Well Chloé’s current…
Utility detailing has been a big deal for some time and in a world where the parka is the favourite coat style, that’s no surprise. But all those drawstrings, giant pockets, zips, parachute nylons, heavy cottons, and topstitching have been evolving. We’ve had purist ultra utility, and we’ve had a more girly pretty utility (remember…
When you think of celebrity fashion labels you tend to think of lines that really make an impact just because the celebs at the helm are so very very famous. Think Victoria Beckham (hard to avoid at the moment given her OBE and the storm of faux outrage in the press about the news leaking…
So Amazon filed a patent (a couple of years ago) for a floating warehouse that could help it deliver more stuff to us poor stuff-deprived consumers down here on terra firma. The surprise here is perhaps that it took so long to learn about it (top marks to CB Insights analyst Zoe Leavitt). It may…
Boxing Day footfall in the UK is down 6% so far and shopping centres are seeing a decline that’s heading towards 20%. Online may be up but that causes its own problems. What’s to blame? Step forward Black Friday.
Glossy magazine editors are, for the most part, a scary lot. I don’t know if they start out that way, but the pressure, the power and the way to wall Prada does tend to turn them into a breed apart.
We live in an age of wearable technology and it won’t be long before everyone has at least one wearable. Right? Wrong actually. Apparently wearables (in the US at least) aren’t living up to expectations. Growth in 2017 is expected to be lower than previously predicted with research firm eMarketer saying usage is likely to…
Capes appear frequently on the runways but don’t always filter through to the mainstream. Yet their appearance in (relatively) large numbers in the pre-fall 17 lookbooks suggests designers think this might be the (pre-)season for them to make a breakthrough. Pre-fall is, after all, the most commercial of collections, not the time to make grand…
Coach has confirmed Selena Gomez as its new brand ambassador and said that yes, the link-up will include “a special design project with Coach executive creative director Stuart Vevers.” So far, so unsurprising. The news about the partnership was widely leaked last week so I’m certainly not telling you anything you don’t already know. But…
Alessandro Michele has out-Michele’d himself for the Gucci pre-fall 2017 collection with a riot of decoration, geeky touches, accessory ideas and much more. But is there anything for the wider industry to plunder in the months ahead or is it just more of the same? Well, yes and yes. It’s become very clear in recent…
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