Fashion

Hyères Festival makes a new start with its 36th edition

Hyères (France) - On Thursday evening, for the 36th consecutive year, the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories took place in the Villa Noailles, in the town of Hyères in the South East of France. A little over a week after Paris Fashion Week, the fashion world gathers again under the sun of the Côte d’Azur to attend...

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Fashion |Opinion

Why sustainable packaging must be the starting point to fashion's waste problem

Let’s consider for a moment the packaging journey of a garment prior to it arriving in one’s wardrobe. Most garments are packaged several times over before it reaches the customer, seeing multiple variants of discarded single-use packaging. More than 80 billion garments are produced annually across the world, many of which are shipped and packed...

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Fashion

Global Warning: Botter alerts on the climate emergency

Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter, artistic directors of Nina Ricci and founders of the Botter brand, are what we call emerging designers. With this status comes a lot of media attention, which they are using to confront the fashion world with climate change. Their spring/summer 2022 Botter collection, ‘Global Warning’, was no exception to this...

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Business

Hugo Boss posts strong Q3 results, raises forecast

On a preliminary basis, currency adjusted sales at Hugo Boss Ag increased 40 percent compared to the prior-year period. In Group currency, revenues were up 42 percent to 755 million euros in the three-month period. Compared to the third quarter of 2019, the company said in a release, currency-adjusted group sales increased 7 percent, driven by a...

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Fashion

Sneaker prices are rising at the fastest rate of inflation in 20 years

Everything from supermarkets to fuel to fashion seems to be getting more expensive. Footwear is the latest category to see an increase in prices, as inflation surges at the fastest rate in 20 years. In the U.S., consumer prices have risen 5.4 percent in September alone, with further increases expected throughout the remained of 2021 and the...

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Business |In depth

ESG in fashion: a general overview of the EU framework on environment, social and governance criteria in the fashion industry

Brussels – More and more fashion companies are announcing programs with ambitious (some more than others) goals in relation to environmental, social and governance criteria. Recently ASOS launched its ‘Fashion with Integrity’ (FWI) 2030 programme, committing to achieve Net Zero across the full value chain by 2030. Also consumer demand is not...

14 Oct 2021

Business

Aritzia reports strong Q2 revenue, profit growth

Canadian womenswear brand Aritzia has reported surging sales as it continues to recover from the pandemic. In the three months to August 29, net revenue came in at 350.1 million dollars - that’s a 74.9 percent increase from last year and a 45.1 percent increase from two years ago. The retailer said the revenue growth reflected accelerated...

14 Oct 2021

Business

Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing posts record net profit

Tokyo - The operator of Japanese casualwear giant Uniqlo reported a record annual net profit on Thursday and predicted an even better performance this year as pandemic-related restrictions ease further worldwide. Fast Retailing said business had “recovered markedly” as infections were contained around the world, including a sharp recovery in...

14 Oct 2021

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Fashion

Jimmy Choo announces NFT collection

Jimmy Choo has announced a collaboration with artist Eric Haze and fashion designer Poggy on an NFT piece. The NFT, which will be available for auction on the Binance NFT marketplace, features a digital sneaker, rotating against a background of Haze’s signature writing. Alongside the NFT artwork, 8,888 mystery boxes will be available for...

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Culture

Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell to be turned into NFTs in Ellen von Unwerth release

Through digital auction site Cryptograph, fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth will be releasing a five piece non-fungible token (NFT) collection starring three iconic supermodels in images she has taken from the past. The ‘Supermodel Series’ exists as an ode to the iconic supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, turning...

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Fashion

Megan Thee Stallion hops on fast food merchandise trend with Popeyes collab

Grammy award-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion has revealed an extensive collaboration with fast-food chain Popeyes, seeing the artist release a range of merchandise that complements new collaborative special additions to the restaurant’s menu. Thee Heat, the first selection of the Popeyes x Megan Thee Stallion merchandise collection, will be...

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Business

The Bellevue Collection raises 75,000 dollars for nonprofits

The Bellevue Collection has raised 75,000 dollars for local nonprofits during its 16th annual Fashion Week. Celebrating 75 years of fashion, the fashion week returned in person for the first time since 2019 due to the pandemic. The Posh Party Trend Show and The Collective Runway Show ticket sales earned 75,000 dollars, with the donation going to...

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