AW21 news and archive

Ted Baker built Animal Crossing island to preview AW21 collections

In its first exploration of the gaming market, fashion brand Ted Baker has taken to Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons to showcase its autumn/winter 2021 collection and present a virtual brand experience. Created in collaboration with visual artist and gamer Kara Chung, players are able to walk through and explore the brand’s specially...

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Jakke launches artist collaboration for autumn/winter 2021

London-based sustainable faux fur brand Jakke has launched an artist collaboration with Astrid Wilson, Kit Agar and Simone Brewster for autumn/winter 2021. Each of the artists has brought their “unique outlook and style” to Jakke’s popular ‘Rita’ faux fur jacket to create three bold prints to highlight the worlds of art and fashion, all within...

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Lee unveils new autumn campaign, LeeOriginals

American denim brand Lee has revealed its new advertising campaign LeeOriginals, created to honour the brand’s “trailblazing spirit”. Produced in collaboration with photographer and creative director, Mark Seliger, the campaign aims to highlight the brand’s continued support of trailblazers, with the brand stating it chose the campaign’s team...

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Megan Thee Stallion stars in Coach x Schott NYC collaborative campaign

Luxury fashion house Coach has unveiled its collaboration with American clothing manufacturer Schott NYC, with the duo releasing a shearling outerwear collection as part of the house’s autumn 2021 line. Bringing together two American heritage labels, the collection sees the merging of each brands’ distinct expertise in leather craftsmanship....

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Cos showcased AW21 at LFW

High street retailer Cos made its debut at London Fashion Week with a hybrid showcase for its autumn/winter 2021 collection at London’s iconic Roundhouse. The show encompassed a physical catwalk show, with models walking through curtains projected with colours, moving imagery and portraits from the retailer’s campaign, as well as a digital...

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Filippa K releases gender-fluid AW21 campaign with poet Kai Isaiah Jamal

Poet, activist and model Kai Isaiah Jamal stars in two new Filippa K campaigns, wearing a range of the fashion houses newest AW21 collections. In the main line, accompanied by a campaign entitled What Lies Within, from a poem written by the model, Kai is seen wearing minimal cashmere sweaters and dresses, frayed turtlenecks and oversized wool...

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Balmain partners with Channel 4 on short-form drama series

French fashion house Balmain and its creative director Olivier Rousteing have partnered with UK broadcaster Channel 4 on a first of its kind short-form drama series starring singer-songwriter Jesse Jo Stark, Charles Melton, Tommy Dorfman and Ajani Russell. ‘Fractures’ marks the first co-branded venture between a fashion label and a broadcaster...

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: 3 Emerging Designers to Watch

As well as cementing itself as the fashion centre for sustainability, Copenhagen Fashion Week is becoming a hotbed for new talent and this spring/summer 2022 season saw three designers impress - upcycling Danish brand (Di)vision, conceptual knitwear label A. Roege Hove and Louise Lyngh Bjerregaard, a Central Saint Martins graduate who places a...

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Birkenstock and Jil Sander team up for AW21

Footwear brand Birkenstock has unveiled its first collaborative project with designer brand Jil Sander for autumn/winter 2021. The collection conceived by Jil Sander creative directors Lucie and Luke Meier is part of the Jil Sander+ offering. It blends the brand’s sense of luxury, comfort and design with the authentic Birkenstock silhouette...

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Haute Couture Fashion Week to hold physical shows in July

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has confirmed that the next edition of Haute Couture week in July will feature physical shows and presentations. In a short statement, French fashion’s organising body, said: “Depending on the evolution of the sanitary situation, the physical events may welcome guests in accordance with a specific...

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Balenciaga shows latest collection in iconic tourist hotspots

What do Moscow’s Red Square, Beijing’s Great Wall of China, Egypt’s pyramids and the Parisian Eiffel Tower have in common? They all form the backdrop of Balenciaga’s Winter 2021 pre-collection. Photographed by Patrick Welde against blank backgrounds, each model was lensed posing in front of an iconic tourist attraction that is added in...

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First look: Gucci collaborates with Balenciaga

The fashion rumour mill was in overdrive this week with the suggestion that Gucci was collaborating with Balenciaga, which would mark a new era in high fashion tie-ups, well the rumours are true. Balenciaga’s silhouettes have been given the Gucci treatment - think logos, crystal embellishments and branded necklaces. Gucci and Balenciaga branding...