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Vogue Business has partnered with Dubai Design District (d3), a global creative ecosystem and one of Tecom Group PJSC’s 10 flagship business districts in Dubai, to deliver a new edition of Fashion Futures, our global consortium that has so far stimulated conversations about the sustainable future of the industry in London, Shanghai, New York and Tokyo.The event is set to take place on 6 February 2025 at d3, a global creative ecosystem for design, fashion, architecture and art, which will also host the Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of Dubai Fashion Week from 1 to 6 February.The event will witness the intersection…

Brat! Wicked! Demure! Olympics! 2024 has been a monumental year for fashion, culture, sport and the increasingly blurred lines in between.Fashion brands started this year playing it safe. The Autumn/Winter 2024 collections featured classic silhouettes, commercial or high-ticket pieces like outerwear and homogenous, samey colour palettes, forcing many editors (including this one) to bemoan a lack of originality and excitement from fashion today. Little did we know that a whiplash-inducing year of pop culture trends, buzzy moments and unexpected partnerships was in store to spice things up.

If you were one of the 1.5 billion people that used TikTok this year, you may have seen the Four Seasons Orlando baby, been influenced to buy a bag charm, calculated your aura points, done the apple dance, looked for a man in finance and probably felt sufficiently brain rotted (if not, you might after reading this paragraph).In 2024, TikTok solidified its role as a hub of creativity, sparking micro-trends, inspiring purchases and defining digital-first strategies for brands.This year, 63 per cent of users reported discovering fashion products on TikTok, according to data provided by the platform, while one in…

While Karl Lagerfeld was alive, the iconoclast — and iconic — German designer anointed a couple of successors for his lifetime post at Chanel.First came Hedi Slimane. Fashion urban mythology chalks this up to Lagerfeld having been one of Slimane’s most vocal supporters, famously stating he shed weight to be able to wear his tailoring for Dior Homme, as he shared in an interview in 2004. The idea, fashion chatter said, had been to onboard Slimane at Chanel to oversee the launch of a menswear line under Lagerfeld, with the latter priming the French designer to eventually take over for…

“Though it’s also just a space, too,” Chait adds. “As we progress, it’s space that we can actually ‘add to’ or ‘remove from’, so we wanted to keep things slightly modular.”Clothes are meant to be tried onIt goes without saying that fashion is a tactile business and for a brand rooted in knitwear like The Elder Statesman, it’s imperative that customers can touch and feel the fabrics; that they can understand the quality they’re buying into at such a high price point (a pair of socks starts at $120).Similarly, when a brand’s language is based upon unconventional silhouettes and versatility,…

Just when it seemed pearls may have reached their peak, this year proved otherwise — they were everywhere.Every look in Giorgio Armani’s latest Autumn/Winter 2024/2025 collection had pearl details and there were jackets and dresses fully draped in pearls. Pharrell Williams, the zeitgeist-defining musician and Louis Vuitton’s Men’s creative director, incorporated pearls into the second batch of his Titan capsule collection for Tiffany & Co. Even brands known for their diamond expertise, such as Messika and Repossi, ventured into pearl designs this year, notably with Messika’s high jewellery collection Midnight Sun and Repossi’s Pearl Variation, a new take on the…

What does 30 years in the luxury fashion industry teach you? For Carmen Busquets, it’s that you can’t take anything with you when you go.The Venezuelan-born entrepreneur, who was both co-founder and founding investor of Net-a-Porter in 2000 and has invested in major companies, including Farfetch, Cult Beauty, Lyst and others since, is embarking on a purge of sorts. She’s accumulated fashion pieces from emerging designers, sustainable brands and artisans over the years. Her next project will be to sell them off next year. All proceeds will go to charity — a focus of late for Busquets is philanthropic work,…

The ‘It-girl’ is more than a person; she is an aesthetic, a cultural moment, a business distilled into human form. She embodies the zeitgeist of her era, serving as a lens through which her generation perceives and defines itself while always standing apart from it. For decades, brands have sought to align themselves with these figures, recognising their unparalleled ability to captivate and influence.But in 2024, the It-girl has evolved. No longer confined to heiresses, socialites or Hollywood-adjacent stars, today’s It-girls can emerge from anywhere — bedrooms, van-life road trips, or the front-facing camera of a TikTok post. This democratisation…

Christopher Esber is launching his first-ever retail store in the form of a Sydney pop-up.The space opened on 4 December and will last through to March 2025. It sits within The Strand Arcade in Sydney’s central business district, a heritage-listed arcade built during the Victorian era that features ornate galleries, tiled floors and timber-framed shop fronts.Esber’s store pays homage to the historical setting with 20th-century French antiques contrasted by plush carpets, polished chrome and sateen steel fixtures (referencing the designer’s signature hardware detailing). The store launches with the brand’s resort 2025 collection, including ready-to-wear, swim, shoes, handbags and sunglasses.The Christopher…

Searches for brown suede are still on the up. In October, searches for “brown suede” increased 250 per cent, according to Madé Lapuerta, who runs Data But Make It Fashion on Instagram, an account analysing fashion trends via her purpose-built AI software.It was a win for brands. After releasing brown suede handbags as part of its Autumn/Winter 2024 collection (released in the latter half of the year; a similar time to when brown was picking up the pace, Lapuerta says), Prada grew 35 per cent in popularity from August to October, she calculated. Suede is where Hsu expects brands to…