Author: VOG

Showing internationally has been pivotal to its success. Before showing in Paris, the brand had just 10 international retail accounts, including a handful of stores in South Korea and online with Mr Porter, who put in large orders early. “Our first season in Paris added just a few more, but over the following two seasons, that number doubled,” says Kanae Arai, Iwai’s wife who heads up communications for the brand. Auralee’s international growth continued to progress smoothly during the pandemic, and enjoyed a strong uptick in 2023, which the brand attributes to the post-Covid shopping boom. Auralee currently employs approximately…

KidSuper, which was initially set to show on Sunday at 5pm, will instead show at the Nu Stadium in Miami on June 25. “Every time I kept coming up with the ideas for Paris, I kept getting pulled back to the US. Because this is the World Cup, and we might not see it here again for another 30 or 40 years,” KidSuper Colm Dillane told Luke Leitch.After showing at the tail end of PFW Men’s for the last few seasons, Simon Porte Jacquemus is returning to the destination show format. He will show his co-ed collection, Le Bonheur, at…

Moschino announced today that Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo, founders of Milan-based Sunnei, are the brand’s new co-creative directors. The news follows the announcement of Adrian Appiolaza’s exit on Friday, after two and a half years at the helm of Moschino.“In the evolution of a fashion house, the ability to balance identity and innovation is essential. Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo possess the qualities required to embrace this challenge: a contemporary creative vision, a deep cultural sensibility, and the ability to develop relevant and distinctive creative languages. We are confident that their contribution will further strengthen Moschino and support its…

“It’s kind of like I’m organizing a wedding,” says Nicolas Martin Garcia, founder of brand Garcias, speaking on Zoom a week out from the brand’s Milan Fashion Week debut. It’s his first-ever fashion show, and rather than play it safe, the designer has gone for an ambitious concept that fuses his Colombian roots with his Italian upbringing.The show will take place on June 20 in a constructed Colombian neighborhood, complete with façades of a barber shop and a flower market. “I never do simple things,” he says with a smile. “When I think about the collection, when I think about…

Moschino has announced that its creative director, Adrian Appiolaza, has exited the brand. The Argentinian designer has been at the helm of the Aeffe Group-owned brand for two and a half years. A successor will be confirmed in due course, according to the company.“I would like to thank Adrian Appiolaza for his significant contribution to the development of Moschino over the past two years and wish him every success in his future professional endeavors,” Massimo Ferretti, executive chairman of Aeffe Group, said in a statement on Friday.Appiolaza was appointed to the brand in January 2024 after David Renne, who was…

If summer 2026 is the summer of sport, for fashion brands, it’s also the summer of WAGs — the wives and girlfriends of high-profile athletes. As the two industries continue to converge and more viewers than ever rally behind their favorite teams and players, brands also need to be watching the sidelines. There, the partners of players are getting plenty of airtime of their own — all while taking and appearing in content that circulates for days on socials.The NBA craze of the last few weeks has made plain how much attention there is on the women showing up game after…

Following months of tension with majority shareholder and distributor Tomorrow Ltd, Coperni SAS has secured protection from the Paris Court (Tribunal de Paris), France’s equivalent of Chapter 11. The court has opened judicial reorganization proceedings, so Coperni can continue operations, according to a statement from brand president and co-founder Arnaud Vaillant.“This decision follows several months during which the Tomorrow group, Coperni’s exclusive distributor and majority shareholder, ceased paying the sums owed to the brand,” Vaillant said in a statement. “Deprived of these resources, Coperni was put under significant financial strain, along with its employees, even as the brand continues its…

The Pitti Uomo guest designer programming is strong this season, led by Simone Rocha, who will present her first-ever dedicated menswear show on Friday evening. “The debut all-menswear show from Simone Rocha will be the undisputed highlight, runway-wise,” says Vogue’s chief international correspondent, Luke Leitch, who thinks it may feature more of the Adidas collaboration the designer debuted at her co-ed London show in February.“I am excited to share the length and breadth of my menswear proposition, especially with the backdrop of beautiful Florence,” Rocha said in a statement. “I look forward to a new chapter in my work and…

Human Made Corporation, the company founded by Japanese streetwear pioneer Nigo, has signed an agreement to acquire Undercover, the cult fashion label founded and independently owned by Jun Takahashi.The agreement — which is non-binding at this stage, with a share purchase agreement targeted for September 2026 and the full transfer planned for February 2027 — connects two of Japanese fashion’s most visionary figures.The deal comes less than a year since Human Made launched a historic IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, becoming the first streetwear brand to go public there. The company generated annual revenues of JPY 14.27 billion ($89.14…

Brands may be gearing up for a European summer, but over the past couple of months, many European luxury labels — and with them, brand executives, fashion journalists, and VICs — have flitted between the coasts of the United States. Things kicked off with Dior in Los Angeles on May 13, followed by Gucci and Louis Vuitton in New York, and back to LA just last week for an Hermès and Zegna two-nighter.Just as European fashion houses are getting wanderlust for the US, American brands are decamping in the other direction. Next week, execs and editors will congregate in Milan for…