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Ljubljana Fashion Week: A decade of sustainable innovation

Ljubljana Fashion Week (LJFW) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and 15th edition, solidifying the Slovenian capital's position as a burgeoning hub for sustainable fashion. The five-day event, held from October 7-11 at the Rog Center, showcased 46 collections, underlining the city's growing influence in the global fashion landscape. A...

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Fashion Week: Profitable investment or poker move?

Fashion week, while a true showcase for the fashion industry, is a complex strategic operation. Paris Fashion Week kicked off on 23 September, offering experts the chance to take a look behind the scenes of such an event. Recent reports reveal the fundamentals of this industry: the costs are exorbitant, but so are the profitability stakes. So...

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Musical chairs at top as Paris Fashion Week starts

Paris - Paris Fashion Week starts Monday in a swirl of rumours of musical chairs at some of the sector's most fabled brands. Falling profits at the two luxury giants LVMH and Kering have sent a shudder through the industry, fuelling talk of a "Game of Thrones" among top designers. Celine's Hedi Slimane and Simon Porte Jacquemus — the young...

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London Fashion Week: Burberry gives the trench coat a streetwear edge

London, Sept 16, 2024 (AFP) - With a Spring/Summer 2025 collection reinventing the iconic trench coat with a streetwear edge, English designer Daniel Lee brought a breath of fresh air on Monday to fashion giant Burberry, hit by financial troubles. The designer, who has been at the creative helm of Burberry for the past two years, departed from...

The fashion system: The fashion seasons explained

Fashion expert José Teunissen was once quoted stating : "What characterises fashion is its urge to innovate. Every six months, fashion presents itself as a moment where the spirit of time is captured in a moment of absolute beauty." *Source: José Teunissen's chapter 'The universe of fashion' in Artez Press' book 'Fashion and imagination on...

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SS24 season: Paris, Milan, London and New York key trends

With all four major fashion weekscompleted, there is an opportunity to review the major trends. Seasonal trends reflect the way consumers see the world at the macro level. The ‘Barbie’ movie not only grossed well over a billion dollars; it married feminist ideals with ‘girlie’ fashion. This was a clear influence on the ss24 collections. After...

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Taipei and Los Angeles are next in the multiplicity of fashion weeks

While many see Paris as the culmination of the ‘big four’ fashion cycle, which began in New York early September, before moving to London and Milan and ending in Paris last week, other cities are just getting started. Taipei fashion week officially opened on Wednesday and will run until October 19th. Los Angeles has resurrected its fashion week...

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Power shoulders, micro shorts and navel-gazing: The catwalk trends for SS24

After the last designers presented their creations at Paris Fashion Week at the beginning of October, Fashion Month in the four major fashion capitals is now already over. This year's programme was peppered with much-discussed debuts and farewells, but what ultimately remains are some decisive inspirations for spring/summer 2024. It was a season...

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Six reasons for designers to edit their runway collections

If creativity is the residue of time wasted, as Albert Einstein once said, surely the catwalk is the platform for trying new ideas that otherwise would never have come to light. Particularly for designers who are wary of editing and are keen to indulge every idea, in multiple forms. Fashion shows can be boring. For buyers and journalists, who...

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The Top Ten Runway Shows of 2022

With the return of ‘in-person’ shows in 2022, there was an added air of excitement, both from the designers staging the shows, as well as the buyers, fashion editors and other industry professionals who attended. There have been hundreds of presentations since January 2022 with some being outstanding. Here are the ten best of the best. Image:...

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This fashion week in pictures

Sandton (South Africa) - Designer Mzukisi Mbane (middle), founder of Imprint, cheers with his models before his show as part of the African Fashion International (AFI) fashion week in Sandton on November 19, 2022. Detail of the Kimono exhibit at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. November 22. (Photo: Léo Delafontaine via Claudine Colin...

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Gucci bids goodbye to co-ed catwalks with first menswear show in January

Gucci is to return to showing separate collections during the men’s and women’s fashion week calendars, moving away from its co-ed presentation format. The Florentine luxury house will show its men's AW23 collection during the Milano Moda Uomo calendar in January. The announcement was made by Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri at the Milan Fashion Global...