Business

France demands for Wish app and site to be removed

A number of French politicians and the country’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) have ordered search engines and app stores to delist Wish, a US e-commerce platform, stating product safety concerns as the defining reason. The move comes after more than 100 products sold through the site were...

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Retail

Fashion ecommerce sites still fail Google’s user experience requirements

New data suggests around 50 percent of the top 100 most visible¹ websites on Google.com still fail to deliver a “good” page experience on desktop as defined by the Core Web Vitals (Page Experience) update which finished rolling out in August 2021. And 44 percent of the top 100 websites fail on mobile. Fashion ecommerce sites are one of the worst...

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People

Remembering Abloh: the man who brought the street to the runway

Virgil Abloh reimagined the profile of a fashion designer, merging streetwear, music and high fashion, and shattering glass ceilings as the first black creative director at Louis Vuitton. Abloh died on Sunday at the age of 41, with few aware that he had been battling a rare form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma, since 2019. His partnership with...

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Fashion

Fashion design education matters for the metaverse

In 1964, Arthur C Clarke, science writer and futurist, predicted "the invention to end all inventions". He called "the replicator", a duplicating machine to create copies of anything at any time: "Confronted with such a device, society will probably sink into a kind of gluttonous barbarism because everybody would want unlimited quantities of...

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People

Designer Virgil Abloh (41) dies of cancer

Virgil Abloh, the founder of streetwear brand Off-White and menswear director of Louis Vuitton, has died at age 41 from cancer. Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH announced the unfortunate news on their website and social media channels on Sunday, November 28. Abloh had been privately battling cancer for several years, all while producing...

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Fashion

Pieter Mulier: ‘I was disgusted by the quantity of products we were vomiting out’

Pieter Mulier - who has worked alongside Raf Simons since the early 2000s, including as his right-hand man at Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein - had his own moment in the spotlight in February when he became creative director at Alaïa - a position he describes as like “winning the lottery”. Mulier left PVH subsidiary Calvin Klein in 2018...

26 Nov 2021

People

Harry Styles surpasses Billie Eilish to top 2021 fashion icon list

Harry Styles has surpassed Billie Eilish to be crowned the top style icon worldwide in 2021, according to a new study. The British singer has been making waves in the fashion scene in recent years for his flamboyant and gender-fluid looks, like the Gucci jacket and dress combo he donned in a 2020 Vogue cover shoot. His outfits were the most...

26 Nov 2021

Fashion

'From Rwanda to Hollywood': Kigali style goes global

Kigali - Matthew Rugamba knew his Rwandan fashion label had arrived when Junior Nyong’o, the brother of Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, attended the world premiere of “Black Panther” in a three-piece suit designed by him. Hours after the glitzy event in Los Angeles, the website for Rugamba’s brand House of Tayo exploded as enquiries flooded in from...

26 Nov 2021

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Retail

Amazon plans for Abu Dhabi fulfillment center by 2024

Reuters has reported that Amazon has plans to open a fulfillment center in Abu Dhabi for 2024. Amazon has entered a partnership with Abu Dhabi Investment Office to establish the fulfillment center, which will be built in accordance with the company’s carbon reduction strategies. The new fulfillment center is expected to create thousands of jobs...

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Business

Maison Kitsuné launches investment arm

Maison Kitsuné has launched Kitsuné Ventures, a new investment arm focused on early-stage investment. The news was reported by WWD. The company’s first investment is in Brooklyn-based fashion label Conor McKnight. Under the terms of the investment deal, Kitsuné will aid McKnight with logistics, distribution, and accounting for the brand. The...

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Fairs

The London Textile Fair opens registrations

The first European textile exhibition of the year, the London Textile Fair, is set to take place in January 2022. Held at the Business Design Centre, the show is a chance for designers, buyers and contract manufacturers of high-street chains to gather together. Around 200 exhibitors are expected to be presenting at the fair, an increase in...

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Fashion |In Pictures

Crocs unveil new direction for its classic clog with Salehe Bembury

Casual shoe brand Crocs has unveiled a collaboration with American footwear designer Salehe Bembury, known for his luxurious streetwear style, on a “new direction” for its iconic ‘Classic Clog’. The Salehe Bembury x Crocs ‘Pollex Clog’ is an exclusive, first-of-its-kind design that reimagines Crocs. The footwear brand describes the collaboration...

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