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A modern-day success story usually goes something like this: young creative escapes from the confines of their hometown, flees to the big city and discovers a clan of fellow escapees, each desperate...
Roll up, roll up. It’s that time of year again where Aussie wool experts Woolmark announces the budding young talents who will be taking part in the annual International Woolmark Prize....
For spring/summer 2021, Thebe Magugu got tactical. After setting up his own online shopping destination to combat store closings and order cancellations of his AW20 collection due to Covid-19, the...
It’s always an inspiration to see a new name break into the saturated Paris Fashion Week scene with a lot to say. When he won last year’s LVMH Prize, Johannesburg-based Thebe Magugu made history...
Nothing makes me more excited than competition reality TV. Project Runway, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain’s Got Talent or America’s Next Top Model – give me anything with high personal stakes...
The global pandemic has put incredible pressures on all sectors of the fashion industry, particularly independent designers at the helm of their very own businesses. Since the UK went into lockdown,...
In a marker of solidarity during the current Covid-19 crisis, the 7th edition of the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers will be awarded to all eight of its finalists. The final, which was set to...
Everyone needs a bit of sparkle once in a while. Just ask a certain online editor with a penchant for tiny beaded bags. Faced with a pandemic, the AW20 shows gave us some fun fashion to look forward...
With Rupaul’s Drag Race in the depth of controversy thanks to one of its contestants being disqualified for sexual misconduct, we’re gladly focusing on the other most important...
And here we are: 2020. According to most doomsday theories, we’re supposed to have been wiped off the face of Earth by now, courtesy of a disastrous apocalypse. And despite it not having happened...
Being an emerging designer can be all fun and games – that’s until it comes to actually producing their creative ideas the fashion journos already coined as “iconic”. Without a...
Roll up, roll up. It’s that time of year again where fashion’s freshest young talent compete in the Hunger Games of the fashion world. Thankfully, the nominees aren’t fighting to the death, but...
Casablanca is a label defined by aspirational luxury. Designer Charaf Tajer has looked to traditional French Maisons like Chanel and Cartier to form the pillars of his menswear. Pillars that are...
All the in-the-know fashion folk are well aware of Reference Studios. The Berlin-based communications agency offers an holistic approach to brand development, marketing and cross-pollinated digital...
Under regular circumstances, Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault are inseparable. Not only are they a couple, but the two helm one of the most exciting womenswear labels to emerge from London...
It’s hard to believe it was a mere nine months ago Kenneth Ize made his Paris Fashion Week debut. It’s even harder to fathom how this was the designer’s debut in the first place. As...
Orsola de Castro, 53, is the creative director of Fashion Revolution, the campaign she co-founded with Carry Somers after the Rana Plaza factory disaster in 2013, in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh....
Monday signifies the start to this year’s Fashion Revolution Week, the annual global campaign fighting for a safer and fairer fashion industry for all. Falling on the anniversary of the...
from left: the Dior atelier premières Laurence Morel and Florence Chehet with artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri A workshop, a factory, a family. there are many ways to describe the Dior couture...
If you’re not following Alan Crocetti on Instagram, what are you playing at? The London-based jeweller is always a pleasure to have clogging up our feeds. The models he uses are buff, his...
