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She explains that they’ve been working closer with their in-house retail and wholesale teams to “understand what product was bought, how many units and where”, in order to place the items in front of the right audiences. “We’ve been very regional this year,” Executive Friend tells me, “so instead of trying to get into a ‘Best 25 Wallets for Men’ guide, we’re focusing on pitching items for more niche guides.”This shift in strategy, she argues, has a lot to do with the rise of Substackers whose audiences subscribe to their specific tastes as opposed to more general round-ups. “We’ve noticed…

Whether lab-grown leather will be seen as offputtingly ‘unnatural’ in the current cultural climate remains to be seen, but Balti expects the Asian market to be particularly receptive to the innovation of lab-grown leather, more so than the West. Unlike lab-grown diamonds, Balti says, lab-grown leather will likely be more expensive per square metre (because conventional leather is already mass-produced and consumption is already high). This may limit its scalability regardless of consumer perception.Ioanna Topouzoglou, founder of Peta-approved vegan handbag brand Mashu, who is vegan herself, says she would be willing to explore lab-grown leather alternatives from an ethical point…

The ski slopes are slowly opening up, on mountains from Aspen to Zermatt. Halfdays is ready to gear women up for the pistes with its first permanent store in Denver, Colorado — a short drive from many of the country’s top slopes.Founded in 2020 by former Olympic skier Kiley McKinnon, Ariana Ferwerda and Karelle Golda, Halfdays launched with ski gear. It was a response to a problem McKinnon and Ferwerda identified: a lack of good women’s options for skiing.

Sullivan — of Miss Claire Sullivan — also dressed Rae for this year’s MTV VMAs, after stylist Allen reached out via Instagram DM, to much chatter online. Sullivan recalls an editor friend running up to her at a fellow designer’s presentation after the look went live to ask if she had designed Rae’s ceremony fit. “I sort of knew in that moment that it was going to blow up way more than I had anticipated,” she says. The look generated $927,000 in media impact value (or MIV, which calculates the monetary value of posts, article mentions and social media interactions) in…

To make them, I spent some time around Val Brembana near Bergamo, where there are a lot of shirt specialists. I found a small company run by a couple and their two sons with just eight or nine people in the workshop, and they helped me develop the idea and make the first samples. And then we made around 1,800 pieces, which felt like a lot. I loaded them into my car, a white Volvo station wagon, and started trying to sell them. I thought I knew of about 25 stores in Italy that would understand what I was trying…

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London Fashion Week (LFW) is banning the use of exotic skins such as crocodile and snake in show collections — making it the first of the ‘big four’ to do so.The British Fashion Council’s (BFC) deputy director of policy and engagement, David Leigh-Pemberton, announced the ban this week in a speech to parliament, extending its ban on fur use, which was implemented last year.LFW designers — many of which are smaller and less established than the luxury giants showing in Paris and Milan — tend not to use exotic skins in their collections anyway, but the move is still significant. London is following…

Lanvin’s last show on the Paris calendar was in March 2023 under previous artistic director Bruno Sialelli, who exited in April 2023.It marks the next step in Lanvin’s reboot, spearheaded by Shukla over the past three years, which has involved a rethink of its product and marketing. Last month, the house unveiled the third “chapter” of its ‘Character Studies’ campaign, a series of portraits lensed by American photographer Steven Meisel that came out in three instalments, the latest one being in October. Shukla calls it “an important visual metronome of what is to come, in the sense that Lanvin should…

From now on, much of Aupen’s production will be in Métiers d’Art factories. Already, Aupen’s hardware is produced at Paris-based Jade Groupe, and handbag leather at Tanneries Roux, which specialises in calfskin and is located about two hours outside of the city. “They work with luxury houses like Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Berluti,” Tan says. “So being able to develop leather articles with them has been a really special opportunity.” Going forward, the brand plans to work with LVMH’s global production partners as well. (A representative from LVMH Métiers d’Art declined to comment on the partnership.)It’s not just the supply…

Scandi womenswear label Saks Potts will close down in spring 2025 after a decade in operation.The independent brand landscape has been particularly challenging in recent years, with rising costs and subdued consumer spending forcing many to file for administration or bankruptcy. But for Saks Potts, it wasn’t a financial decision. In fact, the brand says it has achieved consistent annual sales growth of 25 per cent since its founding in 2014 and that 2024 is set to be its strongest financial year yet.Why let a good thing go? “Barbara [Potts] and I started Saks Potts when we were very young…