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New rules of influence: key takeaways for fashion from Milan Design Week 2026

Milan Design Week concluded at the end of April, giving experts time to analyse the impact of this pivotal edition. According to a recent report by PR agency Karla Otto, the experiential strategies of fashion houses have clearly shifted. The focus is no longer on installations designed solely for fleeting buzz, but on valuing the creative...

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Paris Fashion Week: With Matter and Shape, design emerges as a growth driver for fashion

By doubling the number of visitors to the tents in the Jardin des Tuileries during the March 2026 Paris Fashion Week, the Matter and Shape trade show, organised by WSN, has demonstrated the growing porosity between fashion and design. This is not a new phenomenon. Back in 2019, for the Galerie Kreo, Virgil Abloh reinterpreted the design of the...

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Hun Kim, creative director at Karl Lagerfeld: “AI is no longer an experiment, it’s a necessity”

Redesigning the workflow “When I first began as a designer, the process was always the same,” Hun Kim, creative director at Karl Lagerfeld, explained during his talk at the online Alvanon 3D Tech Fest last week, where he shared how Karl Lagerfeld has welcomed AI into its design process. “We sketched ideas, chose fabrics, made technical drawings,...

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BMW and Vogue partnership reveals next wave of sustainable design talent

In a pioneering fusion of automotive and fashion design, BMW has partnered with British Vogue to celebrate emerging talent through their Future Creators Design Competition, highlighting a growing trend of cross-industry collaboration in sustainable luxury design. The competition, which attracted hundreds of entries from emerging designers,...

From design, supply, distribution, marketing to retail: How AI is being used in the fashion industry

Attention fashion brands and retailers: how you can use Artificial Intelligence to make your business more intelligent and/or efficient “Artificial intelligence (AI) can make the fashion industry smarter,” said Matthew Drinkwater, head of the Fashion Innovation Agency at the London College of Fashion and specialist in new technologies and their...

This is how a fashion brand's collection is created

What is involved in the development of a fashion collection exactly? FashionUnited has covered everything, from the design and production process to the journey your garment makes from the drawing board to the shop shelf, in this background article. We will start at the beginning, with an explanation of what a fashion collection actually is,...

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Vogue Scandinavia wins Red Dot Design Award 2021

Vogue Scandinavia Just launched fashion magazine Vogue Scandinavia and Finnish forest products manufacturer Stora Enso have won the Red Dot Design Award in the “brands & communication” category for their renewable eco-packaging concept created to replace plastics in magazine packaging. That means starting with a bang for the Scandinavian edition...

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SS22 Fashion Trend Snack: the top 5 prints

Of all the trends for next season, Christine Boland’s Trend Snack gives a ‘bite size’ report of the 5 must-do colours, fabrics, textures, patterns, silhouettes etc to incorporate into your fashion collection. Today: it’s all about the prints. #1 Shadow effects as seen @ Fendi & Victoria Beckham Image credit: Fendi SS22, Catwalkpictures, Pexels...

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Video: What Pantone Book to Use for Fashion Designers (TCX vs TPX?!)

If you work in fashion, you have to use Pantone colors. But how do you know what colors to use? And what's the difference between TCX & TPX codes? This video will tell you what you need to know. Source: Youtube, Sew Heidi, Pantone

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Redress Design Awards proves that fashion doesn’t have to be wasteful

An exhibit featuring pieces from the Redress Design Awards 2018 opened at Fashion for Good Experience in Amsterdam. The diverse array of collections were made entirely from waste, ranging from the usual suspects of dead stock textile and surplus materials from manufacturing, to more unusual contributors such as furniture offcuts and sofa...

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Video: Victoria's Secret 2018 | Set Design

A look at the set design process of the Victoria's Secret show.

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Mayan weavers oppose corporate theft of their patterns

Indigenous women weavers in Guatemala take action against a fashion industry that has been exploiting their culturally significant and often sacred patterns and symbols by copying them and using them for their own commercial purposes. The National Movement of Maya Weavers is made up of around 30 organisations from 18 linguistic communities in...