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Have you heard? 2024 was a big year for fashion and sport. From the Olympics to the Euros, tennis to Formula One, fashion brands have invested more than ever this year, via athlete ambassadorships, sportswear collaborations and sporting events. Meanwhile, the sportswear market has been in flux, with shaky performances from heavyweights like Nike and Adidas, comeback kids New Balance and Puma hot on their heels, and burgeoning challenger brands from Hoka to On clawing market share.The fashion-sports surge has been a long time coming. With the Paris Olympics, the growth of the NFL, football’s continued resonance with almost half…

Vogue is taking over Lightroom London — the four-storey immersive space a stone’s throw away from King’s Cross — for Inventing the Runway, a new exhibition exploring the power of the runway from its earliest inception to our current moment. And as a Vogue Business Member, you save 20% on tickets. Simply use the code below at checkout.About LightroomLightroom is a space where innovative shows combine the scale and spectacle of immersive experiences with a focus on new forms of storytelling. In collaboration with some of the world’s greatest artists, creatives and innovators, Lightroom presents pioneering works that bring together…

In the years when Alexander McQueen reigned over Cool Britannia, Seán McGirr was coming of age beside the Irish Sea in the Dublin neighbourhood of Bayside – a ’60s suburb with a medieval Kilbarrack graveyard – with his bedroom walls lined with tickets from emo concerts. His mother, Eileen, a fertility nurse, can trace her eldest’s obsession with design back to the hours and hours he spent building amazing structures out of Lego as a three-year-old, while his mechanic father, Brendan, remembers McGirr whiling away rainy Saturdays hanging around his Dublin garage.McGirr returns to Bayside when he can, where he…

This article has been updated to include an interview with Vera Wang.Vera Wang is selling her namesake brand after 35 years in business.Management group WHP Global has acquired the IP of the brand, the companies announced Monday. As part of the deal, Wang will stay on as founder and chief creative officer of the label, while joining WHP as a shareholder. The group also owns fashion labels including Rag & Bone, G-Star, Isaac Mizrahi, Anne Klein, Bonobos and Joe’s Jeans, kids retailer Toys R Us and, as of June, mall brand Express. Terms of the Vera Wang deal were undisclosed.“It’s…

SS Daley Mens AW24 in Florence, Italy. Photo: Giovanni Giannoni/Getty ImagesCharles Jeffrey Loverboy by Scottish fashion designer Charles Jeffrey, Paris-based label Les Fleurs Studio and Post Archive Faction, a Korean menswear brand based in South Korea that was a semi-finalist of the LVMH Prize in 2021, each join the presentation schedule.The schedule, which runs from 21 to 26 January, features 38 shows and 30 presentations, down from 2024’s 41 shows and 32 presentations. Other shows to watch include Louis Vuitton, Dior Men’s, Rick Owens, Hermès and Kenzo. Hed Mayner will take the Loewe spot on 25 January at 12pm. Bianca…

Vogue:  Do you see it as boosting your business in Europe?Most certainly. That’s another exciting thing about showing in Paris: the buyers I’m meeting with in the showroom can come to the show, and I can share the feeling and the brand up close and personal with some of the people who haven’t yet been able to see it. As a company, we are growing quite rapidly.Vogue: Would you consider opening a store in Paris?I would love to have a flagship store in Paris, one in Tokyo and one in New York. I would like to open in Paris by…

This year, Jamie Clifton looked into one of fashion’s most divisive styles: the skinny jean. While retailers like Madewell and Gap reported dwindling sales, the AW24 runways were an ode to the 2010s style staple. Are they truly on their way back?Charli XCX’s album Brat captured the zeitgeist this summer. After the star’s oversubscribed Glastonbury ‘Partygirl’ set, her Ibiza takeover and being instated as a fashion It-girl, Vogue Business breaks down her impact for fashion brands.Gen Z is using iPhone’s notetaking app to plan outfits and style new looks from their existing wardrobes. How can brands get involved?What are babygirl…

This month, Spotify released its annual Spotify Wrapped breakdown. And in a new feature, thousands of users were categorised as the “pink Pilates princess”, based on their penchant for pop. It’s a new term, but the pink Pilates princess is not a new concept. The trend was born on TikTok in late 2023, and denotes a consumer that enjoys Pilates and selfcare, invests in premium athleisure, wellness, accessories and beauty as part of the lifestyle, and posts about it online. It’s a growing cohort: there are 47,000 videos using the #PinkPilatesPrincess hashtag on TikTok to date.“When I think of the…

What was the biggest trend of 2024? Well, it depends on who you ask.For a particular pocket of URL-native Gen Zs and millennials, it might have been the chaotic rave-readiness fuelled by Charli XCX’s Brat. For another “very mindful, very demure” subsect of the same demographic, it might have been quiet luxury. For the truly runway-pilled, it might have been the return of boho chic, resuscitated for autumn collections in March by Chemena Kamali’s Chloé debut. Or, it could be the Western vibe set forth by Pharrell Williams at Louis Vuitton in January and underscored by Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter.But what…

2024 was a buzzy year for fashion, and not only because of the Brat/demure summer, Sabrina Carpenter-mania and Wicked collaborations.John Galliano opened and closed the year; sports took centre stage; Miu Miu defied the odds; and campaigns that used big-name celebrities in intimate or quirky ways stood out. The biggest buzz of the year was created almost inadvertently by brands leaving their creative director posts vacant. “Aren’t the designer musical chairs what drove most conversations this year?” asks PR guru Lucien Pagès.