Kim Jones may be borrowing from Dior's most iconic female looks for his latest menswear collection but that doesn't mean he believes gender boundaries are ready to disappear yet. "We live in cities and they are incredibly open, but go outside and it's not the same," Jones told AFP at his studio in Paris. "There are 40 countries in the world...
21 Jan 2022
Subversion and surrealism lay at the heart of men’s Pre-Fall. Youth subcultures, surrealist prints and an anarchic attitude put a fresh spin on core themes surrounding gender-fluidity and the revival of artisanal craftsmanship. Amid the raw and rugged, a sense of playful nostalgia came through as designers looked back to their own heydays and...
British fast-fashion online retailer PrettyLittleThing is collaborating with Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague on a showcase during London Fashion Week. PrettyLittleThing appointed Hague as its UK and European creative director in August 2021 and said in a statement that she will present the “hottest looks for 2022,” and pay homage to the...
American design house Ralph Lauren has unveiled a sustainably-minded, temperature-responsive outfit for Team USA’s Winter Games Opening Ceremony look. Designed using the house’s newest textile innovation, Intelligent Insulation, garments hold the possibility of transitioning through three seasons and from indoor to outdoor. The feature has been...
Paris - Louis Vuitton presented the final collection by path-breaking designer Virgil Abloh at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday, following his death last year at the age of 41 that shocked the industry. A close associate of Kanye West, Abloh was the first black American to be named creative director of a top French fashion house and brought...
20 Jan 2022
Emerging label Egonlab has welcomed the upcoming season in the form of a utopian debut runway show and a number of digital activations, including a collaboration with Crocs on a non-fungible token (NFT) collection. Florentin Glemarec and Kevin Nompeiz, the design duo behind the newly established high-fashion house, took to the Paris Fashion Week...
Premium sportswear brand Castore has announced a strategic partnership with British motor racing circuit Silverstone. The new partnership will see Castore becoming the team wear supplier for Silverstone and launch a new e-commerce store for the motor circuit, which will feature exclusive merchandise collections, including the Castore x...
MAC Cosmetics, an Estée Lauder-owned brand, is launching a next-generation product sample with Perfect Corp, a company that provides beauty tech solutions and SoPost, an online product sampling partner. The unique product discovery journey combines hyper-realistic AR virtual try-on and personalized AI shade matching, with the convenience of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) tech firm Perfect Corp. is teaming up with beauty brand MAC Cosmetics and online product sampling platform SoPost, for a first-to-market personalised product sampling experience. Described as “next-generation product sampling,” the partnership will combine MAC Cosmetic consumers with a...
From January 26 bidding will open on Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton and Nike collaboration, with 200 pairs of its Air Force 1 shoe to be sold via luxury auctioneers Sotheby’s. The auction is a link in a string of related Louis Vuitton events to take place from January through 2022. Proceeds will benefit The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” Scholarship...
London-based designer and ANDAM 2021 award winner Bianca Saunders has made her Paris Fashion Week debut, exhibiting an AW22 collection that experiments with cuts, movement and three-dimensional (3D) elements. Warped check prints make up a number of statement pieces in the menswear collection, creating an almost optical illusion-like pattern over...
The design competition Yu Prize by Wendy Yu, founder and chief executive of Yu Holdings, has named 20 emerging Chinese designers as semi-finalists for the 2022 edition. The annual prize, in association with Shanghai Fashion Week and the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, launched last year to support emerging Chinese designers and...
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