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Video: Balmain FW21 collection

In this video, Balmain has presented its FW21 collection. Watch the video below. Video: Balmain via YouTube Photo credit: Image: Balmain via YouTube

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Marc O’Polo reveals rebranding and FW21 campaign at Paris event

Swedish-German premium brand Marc O’Polo has revealed its Fall/Winter 2021 campaign at an event in Paris that also marked the start of a rebranding and internationalisation strategy with a heightened focus on modernity, sustainability and youth. The campaign was revealed at the Ellia Art Gallery on Wednesday evening to an audience of some 300...

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2021's take on 10 back-to-work essentials

Autumn-winter collections are always packed with smart workwear options that are ideal to embrace the new season. However, each year comes with new trends and twists that make office attire ready for the months ahead. FashionUnited analyses the season’s take on ten back-to-work essentials. The blazer is colourful While the black blazer is always...

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Understanding trends and which design elements are hot and not

The Eternal Table of Design Elements by Christine Boland Each season certain design characteristics come and go. In order to help understand which ‘elements’ play the leading roles and how they alternate with each other per season (and to subsequently translate them into your business), trend analyst Christine Boland has developed an innovative...

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Designer Bonnie Young discusses decision to only use deadstock

After a 20-year career working for Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, having been based in both Europe and the US, Bonnie Young has a deep understanding of how the fashion industry runs. But as a member of a family of environmentalists she is also acutely aware of how the industry gets it so wrong. One of her earliest jobs at Donna Karan was head of...

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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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Christine Boland: from forecast to reality

Which forecasted trend for FW21 is actually making it big on the highstreet? Trend analyst Christine Boland gives a retrospective review. In ‘Alchemy of the Times to Come’ forecast for AW2021, one of the four trends I foresaw, based on the current social developments and international catwalk shows, was Poetic Heritage. It demonstrates how we...

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AW21-22 campaigns: a focus on joy and positivity

Though summer isn’t quite over yet, brands have already released their Pre-Fall 2021 and Autumn-Winter 2021-2022 campaigns both online and in print. Whether we’re looking at the clothes, footwear or the settings themselves, there’s a constant in the campaigns for the season ahead: a much-needed post-pandemic joy and a return to endless...

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Haute Couture Fall 2021: Balenciaga’s lampshade hats

Irish award-winning Haute Couture milliner Philip Treacy was the one behind the masterpieces. His hats have been worn by a large number of personalities, from Grace Jones and the Duchess of Cornwall to Madonna and Lady Gaga. For Balenciaga’s Fall 2021 Couture collection, Philip Treacy created futuristic oval headpieces with a mirror-like finish...

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Video: Fendi haute couture collection

In this video, Italian luxury fashion house Fendi has presented its haute couture collection. Watch the video below. Video: Fendi via YouTube

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Bijenkorf buying director talks shift from loungewear to more fashionable pieces

De Bijenkorf, the biggest high-end retailer in the Netherlands and a subsidiary of Selfridges Group, is looking at the SS22 buying season with optimism. Not least due to its growing online business, which the company has in recent years expanded to Belgium, France, Germany and Austria. Buying director Ninke Gijzel oversees the buying for the...

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Video: Schiaparelli FW21 haute couture collection

In this video, the Italian fashion label Schiaparelli has released its FW21 haute couture collection. Watch the video below. Video: Schiaparelli via YouTube Photo credit: Schiaparelli, Facebook