The Celine woman is so cool that if you removed all the cool Celine clothes, she’d still be cool. During his time heading up Dior Homme, Saint Laurent and, since 2018, Celine, creative director Hedi Slimane has proven his ability time and time again to create or recreate subcultures so well they permeate not only […]
The best themed parties tend to be the ones where you really go to town and splash out on the perfect outfit, down to hair, make-up, accessories and witty Instagram posts to match. Not a single dodgy Amazon get-up in sight, thank you very much. This is the same line of thinking that celebrities should […]
Where Philip Plein goes, others will follow. Back in August 2021 the beloved designer officially started accepting cryptocurrency, meaning shoppers could buy leather jackets spray-painted with the scowling face of a tiger for the equivalent of £138,600.00. Off-White soon followed in April and, today, Gucci has become the first blockbuster fashion house to allow its clients to pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]
For AW21, Jack and Lazaro turn up the tailoring and experiment with playful prints to create a collection infused with newfound optimism. When faced with a global pandemic and an insurmountable number of challenges last season, Proenza Schouler dialled things down. Spending their lockdown in upstate New York, designers Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez found themselves drawn to […]
Alexander Wang is facing new allegations of sexual assault. The New York Times reports that high-profile victims’ rights lawyer Lisa Bloom is representing 10 men with allegations against the designer. David Casavant is one of the men represented by Bloom and he has spoken out against Wang on record. Casavant is a 30-year-old fashion stylist and […]
Back in June, TikTok user Mariel Guzma took a set of fabric scissors to a pale blue pair of size 44 men’s denim shorts. She put together a set of brief instructions, detailing how she went about tailoring and distressing them to her liking, in a TikTok that amassed upwards of 500,000 likes and 3,000 comments — some considerably […]
The value of Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing reached 10.8 trillion yen ($103 billion) at the end of trading Tuesday, exceeding Zara parent Inditex’s 81.7 billion euro ($99 billion) market capitalisation for the first time, Nikkei Asia reports. Fast Retailing’s stock has climbed since August, spurred by investor confidence in its focus on the China market, WFH-friendly offering […]
Shares in Kering dropped 8 percent Wednesday morning after the French luxury group reported quarterly sales that fell more than analysts predicted for Gucci, its biggest and most profitable brand. Kering’s smaller brands grew, but more slowly than they had the previous quarter. Yves Saint Laurent’s sales rose a modest 0.5 percent, while Bottega Veneta […]
German sportswear maker Adidas AG plans to sell or spin-off its underperforming Reebok brand, 15 years after it bought the US fitness label to help compete with arch-rival Nike Inc. Adidas said on Tuesday it had decided to begin a formal process aimed at divesting Reebok as part of a five-year strategy it plans to […]
Poshmark is heading to Australia in the fashion marketplace operator’s first expansion since its January public offering. The Redwood City, California-based company, which runs an online platform for selling second-hand apparel, currently is available only in the US and Canada. But Poshmark is looking for “long-term growth through international expansion” and will start with English-speaking […]