Month: November 2019

The arctic weather in London and superfluous snow meant many editors missed Pitti this season as they were stranded at airports. The men’s trade show which launches the international fashion season, has seen 77 editions of its Florentine exhibition. Each season Pitti showcases a major designer to open the show, and for Autumn Winter 2010…

Britt nominated pop princess Pixie Lott will co-design two exclusive collections for fashion retailer Lipsy. Pixie is to create a S/S and an A/W range featuring two a Festival and Party look. ‘Pixie Festival’ combines vintage dresses, bleached denim and jersey maxi-dresses. The ‘Pixie Party’ line includes animal prints, chiffon dresses and studded vest dresses….

The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton misled consumers into thinking products were handmade, according to the advertising watchdog. Louis Vuitton ran two national press advertisements featuring a photograph of a woman stitching the handle of a handbag and another of a woman creating the folds of a wallet. The wording of the ads suggested that…

American label Fossil is launching its vintage-inspired clothing collection in the UK and select European stores. The company will open stores in London and Stuttgart in Germany. This will be the first time a full collection of Fossil clothing will be available to a market outside of the United States. Fossil takes inspiration from nostalgic…

Men seeking inspiration from the Paris menswear shows in full swing are apt to find themselves looking at geometrical clothes with a sporty bent — or, in one case, outfits proudly displaying their manhood. Nod to nostalgia Looking back to the 1980s and 1990s is proving something of a trend in a lot of the…

The trademark battle between Gucci and Guess has already been addressed in Italian and American courts and now the Court of Paris has ruled in favour of Guess, rejecting the Italian fashion house’s claims that the denim label had infringed its copyright and invalidated three of Gucci’s ‘G’ community and international trademarks. The French court…

John Lewis saw sales of fashion boost its Christmas sales, which this week grew 6.5 percent week-on-week to 160 million pounds. John Lewis confirmed customers are choosing to leave their Christmas shopping “right up until the last minute,” as weekly sales year-on-year were down 2.4 percent. Online sales grew by 5.5 percent on year. Fashion…

French luxury goods company Kering is to launch a sustainable partnership with the London College of Fashion. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Kering CEO Henri-Francois Pinault said that the industry needs “successive generationsto keep driving change”. The new partnership and curriculum being developed with LCF “will help shape the future of sustainable fashion”, he said….

The catwalk parades at Paris Fashion Week and similar events might steal the global media limelight, but street style on the sidelines is the real star for a group of increasingly influential fashionista bloggers. These amateur snappers and writers hang on the periphery of the big shows in Paris, Milan, London and New York, and…

Jourdan Dunn is set to launch her own clothing line for “children and young adults”, after her London-based model agency, Storm Model Management confirmed that the model has signed a licensing deal with Fluid World, who are best known for their work with the Hello Kitty brand. The collaboration will last for at least two…