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Ferrari Fashion School names Anna Lottersberger managing director and academic director

Anna Lottersberger has been appointed the new director of Ferrari Fashion School, a fashion and design training institution in Milan. Lottersberger brings extensive experience in both the corporate and academic spheres, having held teaching and education management positions in Italy, China, Lebanon and Singapore. Her most recent roles include...

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Next generation: Why these young people are taking over their parents' fashion businesses

Family-owned businesses in the fashion industry have been under pressure for years due to challenges such as online competition and rising costs. In recent years, several fashion entrepreneurs have had to close their doors because they could not find a successor. FashionUnited spoke to four children of first-generation fashion entrepreneurs in...

Fashion |Interview

How to turn your fashion internship into a job opportunity: A case study at Rouje

How can you turn a fashion internship into a short-term or permanent job opportunity? In an industry known for being particularly competitive and saturated, securing a contract is often a difficult task. Yet, some students manage to carve a niche for themselves, like Yanrong Chen, Asia marketing project manager at the French ready-to-wear brand...

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From 'Designer of the Year' to 'Emerging Talent': Belgian Fashion Awards unveil winners

Last night, MAD Brussels hosted the Belgian Fashion Awards 2024, a celebration of the creative power and diversity of the Belgian fashion scene. The prestigious awards, organised by Knack and Le Vif Weekend in collaboration with Flanders DC, MAD Brussels and Wallonie-Bruxelles Design Mode, put both established brands as well as emerging talent...

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ITS Contest 2025 announces its 10 international finalists

Cindy Zhaohan Li, Qianhan Liu, Yifan Yu and Zuen Cai from China, Gabrielle Szwarcenberg from Belgium, Macy Grimshaw from France, Maximilian Raynor and Patrick Taylor from the UK, Mijoda Dajomi from Germany, and Naya El Ahdab from France, are the ten designers that have been shortlisted for the 2025 edition of the ITS international design...

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Training centre and factory in one: new Fashion and Textiles Academy in Wales

Non-profit organisation and manufacturer Fashion-Enter Ltd (FEL) is opening a new location of the London-based educational institution Fashion & Textiles Academy in Newtown, Wales. The new school combines a learning academy with a factory. For the launch of the new academy, FEL’s Wales branch joined forces with the local NPTC group of colleges,...

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What to know when using your name for your brand

When creating a new business or brand, one of the many issues to be considered is what to call it. For a designer, the most obvious naming choice is to use their own name, or a variant of their own name. It is common practice within the fashion and cosmetics industries for a designer or founder to name the brand after themself, and there can be...

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Hadi Moussally wins Fashion Film Award 2024: ‘Young Arabs need to know queer Arabs exist’

Last week, the French-Lebanese filmmaker Hadi Moussally received the prestigious Fashion Film Award for his film ‘Shame (عيب)’ to resounding applause and cheers at Lumière Cinema Maastricht at the Netherlands' FashionClash Festival 2024. The film captivated the audience with its daring exploration of the relationship between shame,...

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IFM Fashion Reboot 2024: Trump, China, consumer distrust and quiet luxury

The election of Donald Trump, the slowdown of French luxury brands in the Chinese market, the feeling of being misled by marketing, and the quiet strength of Quiet Luxury are the four main themes addressed by the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) at its Fashion Reboot 2024 event. This traditional end-of-year gathering organised by the IFM for...

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Heriot-Watt University researchers develop system to combat microplastic pollution in fashion

A research team at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, led by Lisa Macintyre, associate professor of textiles at Heriot-Watt’s School of Textiles has developed a grading system to help fight microplastic pollution in the fashion industry. More concretely, the researchers have developed ‘the world’s first visual fibre fragmentation scale’, as per...

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Kering launches sustainability jewellery award

French luxury fashion conglomerate Kering has launched a new jewellery award to advance sustainability and innovation targeting universities and start-ups. The ‘Kering Generation Award x Jewelry’ has been launched in partnership with CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, and with the scientific coordination of Poli.Design at Politecnico di...

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What can students and business owners learn at IFM’s Fashion Entrepreneurship Centre?

The incubator programme at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) is one of three pillars of the school’s Fashion Entrepreneurship Centre, directed by Thomas Delattre. The IFM's Fashion Entrepreneurship Centre is a physical space located within the school’s campus in Paris’ 13th quarter. It houses three programmes that offer tailored solutions...