Designers are taking an adventurous path for AW18 shoes and bots, sticking with some established favourites and also going in new directions. And role-play is big news as our shoes carry us into cowboy country, help us live an urban sports lifestyle, or make us act like a style star in can’t-miss-them power prints that…
Who says Nicolas Ghesquière isn’t up to the job of creation control as LVMH’s biggest moneyspinner? As a not-always-brilliant Fashion Month ended on Tuesday, he turned out to be spot on, silencing the whispers about his future at the brand, for now at least.
Valentino does athleisure? No, surely not. But it’s true. There it was on Pierpaolo Piccioli’s runway for the resort/cruise/pre-summer collection as the label varied its usual gorgeous-gowns-with-a-cultural-homage/appropriation-touch and offered up a bit more variety. This really was a something-for-everyone collection.. well everyone with a fat wallet, at least… Red carpet? Tick. Cocktails on the yacht?…
In the age of athleisure, it’s always worth checking in with a label that virtually invented the category a long, long time ago. There’s a lot of talk about ‘authenticity’ these days so what could be more authentic than Lacoste? It used to spend much of its time revisiting its heritage piece but under Felipe…
Lululemon didn’t invent athleisure… but it can sometimes feel that way. And like many pioneers, it got rather left behind when everyone else caught on that this wasn’t just a trend, it was a way of life.
Remember Sport Luxe? It was a big trend a few seasons ago when luxury designers added some sporty touches to their collections (while also loading them with embellishment and other unsporty details). It was quite popular I seem to remember.
Are Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow feeling the heat? After LVMH finally caved in and sold DKNY when G-III Apparel came up with an offer they couldn’t refuse, there are new owners in place at the label. And when that happens, designers know they have to up their game. They seem to have done so…
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…
A few months ago, an NPD report came out saying that the bra of choice for the millennial woman is the sports bra or the crop top-style bralette. Now it seems that even the queen of the sexy push-up and padded bra, Victoria’s Secret, has got the message.
And the US location for Adidas’s US Speedfactory? Atlanta wins the prize. Although is it such a prize? While a major new manufacturing plant for a big-league brand would usually be greeted by champagne corks popping, the Speedfactory is a robot-operated plant with the 50,000 pairs of shoes it’s expected to make next year all…
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