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Graduate Fashion Foundation and Dugdale Brothers partner on UK university tour

Graduate Fashion Foundation and Huddersfield-based cloth merchant Dugdale Brothers & Co have announced a regional tour across 15 UK universities to provide students with hands-on exposure to heritage textile manufacturing and responsible fabric sourcing. Commencing in October 2026, the tour will reach institutions from Cardiff Metropolitan...

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Lakmē Fashion Week returns to New Delhi: October 13-18, 2026

Lakmē Fashion Week, in partnership with the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), will return to New Delhi from October 13 to 18, 2026. The upcoming event will feature the prêt label Pero for the opening presentation, while AM.IT by Amit Aggarwal is scheduled to close the runway schedule. This edition marks a shift in venue to the Taj Palace...

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Kering Accademia per le Eccellenze launches inaugural academic year across Italy

Kering officially inaugurated the first academic year of its Accademia per le Eccellenze on September 30, 2026, at the MIND Milano Innovation District. Led by Kering CEO Luca de Meo and Sabina Belli, President of Kering Italia and Head of the Academy, the distributed learning ecosystem welcomes more than 1,500 students enrolled across six...

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Chanel: Unpicking one year of 'Blazymania'

Paris - Exactly a year since he unveiled his first collection at Chanel, Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy has proved himself to be a shrewd and hugely profitable recruit by the family-owned French fashion label. Some of Blazy's designs have proved so popular they have sparked a neologism -- "Blazymania" -- which has come to mean the...

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Boisterous fashion week barnstorms 'sleepy' Nigerian capital

Abuja - Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns. The colourful, detailed textiles evoked Carnival — both Nigeria's own, in the southeastern city of Calabar, or that of Rio de Janeiro fame — but were in fact splashing...

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Fashion industry in 'precarious moment', says Vivienne Westwood supremo

Paris - Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler said the fashion industry was in a "precarious moment" as he unveiled his latest Spring-Summer collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week. Kronthaler, the Austrian widower of Vivienne Westwood who took over after her death, found inspiration from African fabrics and his...

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MFW SS27: The skirt emerges as key styling piece

MFW SS27 marked a shift towards a more feminine silhouette, with designers elevating the skirt as the season’s key styling piece. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons dedicated their entire 63-look SS27 collection to skirts, describing them as a “waist-down canvas for self-expression” and deliberately eliminating both trousers and dresses. The designers...

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LATAM Fashion Circle showcases South American brands in Paris

How can the heritage of Latin American artisanal skills be transformed into an offering that can find its place on the international market? This was the challenge Dan Silva set for himself when he conceived his LATAM Fashion Circle project. A project that has now become a reality. When asked by FashionUnited why he named his event LATAM Fashion...

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080 Barcelona Fashion strengthens global appeal with Louis Gabriel Nouchi

Madrid – Still immersed in the whirlwind of shows and presentations that have taken place since early September, the focus now shifts to the upcoming edition of the 080 Barcelona Fashion catwalk. This is the next major event for the Spanish fashion industry. Filled with many surprises and new features, it will once again place Barcelona in the...

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Swan songs at Balenciaga and Chloé, Schiaparelli ready-to-wear

Paris - On the fourth day of Paris Fashion Week, Chloé and Balenciaga gave no indication of the departure rumours surrounding their creative directors. Schiaparelli dazzled in the Cour Carrée du Louvre, while Rick Owens traded black for stone. Chloé in archetypes Featuring embroidery and shiny vinyl, ethereal dresses and vibrant waxed jackets,...

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Lspace bets on a late-summer drop as swim moves beyond the season

Californian swimwear brand Lspace launched its Afterglow collection in September, after peak swim season, in a move it frames as a response to customers buying swim and resortwear all year. "Our customers are shopping swim and resortwear year-round," Alissa Bristow, vice president of creative and design at Lspace, told FashionUnited. "We're less...

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On's Zendaya partnership enters second season with global pop-up strategy

Zendaya’s partnership with On is getting a new chapter on Thursday. The actress and the Swiss sportswear brand unveiled their second co-created collection, along with an action movie-inspired campaign directed by Argentinian trio Panter, and a global pop-up strategy. Zendaya x On Credits: On Zendaya x On Credits: On The collection, developed...