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Cou Cou is part of a new crop of direct-to-consumer-led brands that have taken market share from the likes of Victoria’s Secret with their innovative approaches that primarily focus on the consumer. Led by brands like Thirdlove, Aerie and Natori, more niche offerings are grabbing consumers fed up with traditional lingerie’s lack of newness. Skims is making a similar case, just on a much larger scale.Consumers are endeavouring to seek out the brands that offer this sweet spot between style and comfort. Earlier this year, Magasin’s Laura Reilly published a newsletter about building a ‘no-skips underwear drawer’. “Imagine opening that…

Authentic has said its plans with Saks will begin with the revamp of beloved Barneys, but it seems not for the authentic luxury clients who used it to discover new designers and locate genuine fashion-forward merchandise. Instead, Authentic has opened Barneys New York residences in Tulum, Mexico. One of those four-bedroom, but not-beachfront, condos (the website says they’re five minutes from the beach), can be rented for $282 per night in December — a bargain for a unit that sleeps 10. The plans include more Barneys residences elsewhere, as well as a private label Barneys line that will sell sportswear,…

The high-luxury brand has so far managed to buck the industry slowdown, tailing luxury peers in recent quarters. While leader LVMH reported a 5 per cent sales decline for its fashion division in the third quarter of 2024, Brunello Cucinelli reported in September that sales rose 14 per cent to €620.7 million in the first half of the year; notably, sales in Asia, its third biggest market after Europe and the US, rose 28 per cent. Double-digit growth comes as other brands have seen sales lagging in Asia thanks to a pullback in Chinese spending. Groups including LVMH and Zegna…

Of the 400 works in the exhibition, 170 are hats. There are dozens of major fashion looks that correspond to Jones’s chapeaux by leading designers over the decades, plus the preparatory sketches, photos that reveal his early sense of style, an archive of show invitations, and personal effects, including a scrapbook of Queen memorabilia (the monarch, not the band) from his youth.If you can name a style, Jones now 67, has likely fashioned it according to his own wondrous whims: countless caps, crowns, bonnets, berets, trilbies, tricornes, fezzes, visors, calèche hoods and haloes. The variations are astounding: outstretched wings or…

This demand for MP3 players chimes with a growing interest in so-called “dumb phones”. Searches for handsets not connected to the internet have increased by 270 per cent since December 2021, according to Google Trends data.There is also pushback against a years-long hype cycle, in which bleeding-edge tech such as NFTs, mixed reality and the metaverse saturated and subsequently disappointed consumers and brands alike. This shift is a relevant factor in LVMH’s strategy to invest in “invisible tech” that’s less in your face, according to LVMH VP of digital innovation Nelly Mensah, who spoke at Vogue Business’s Fashion Futures event…

That goodwill translated into The City of Genius, which unfolded over a 30,000-square-metre structure that took over the CSSC Pavilion, a historic shipyard on the Huangpu River. The sprawling activation was organised into 10 designer pavilions, or neighbourhoods, each taken over by one of Moncler’s co-creators. Those co-creators had been tasked with creating Moncler collections as well as their showcases, based on the premise that we are all born Genius and uncreative behaviour is learned through growing up.Think of it as a pumped-up Biennale that lasts only four hours, complete with a racing track installed by Palm Angels, a Jil…

Now, as it branches out of Asos, Topshop’s new majority owners need to consider who the audience is. The brand currently has 12 million Instagram followers, many of them legacy followers, Ridgers says, so the engagement is very low (based on likes and comments of recent posts). To scale on Instagram and to win on Tikok, the brand will need to invest in video looking ahead, and place creators at the forefront of the brand. “UK brands are good at working with creators, but none have powerful long-term ambassadors like Topshop had,” she says. “Topshop should work with a selection…

Azzi & Osta, the design duo known for their sculpted silhouettes and fine, structured fabrics, remain steadfast in their creative journey. George Azzi and Assaad Osta, both graduates of Esmod Beirut, have built a couture and ready-to-wear label beloved by well-known figures including Queen Rania of Jordan and actress Kaley Cuoco. “The first day of the events in Beirut, we were in the studio shooting our latest Spring/Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection, inspired by the joy of travel,” says Azzi. “We managed to finish the shoot in Beirut and present the collection at Paris Fashion Week, where it was positively received…

Ackermann, in turn, was attracted by the “adventure”. A designer that is hard to pigeonhole, his CV includes a long stretch at the helm of his eponymous brand, a three-season stint as creative director of LVMH-owned Berluti, a guest slot designing Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture as part of its rotating designer programme, a red-hot collaboration with Fila, and an unexpected tie-up with beauty brand Augustinus Bader (on a reimagined container for its cult product The Cream).“When [Canada Goose] approached me I was surprised,” he says. “But it’s always interesting to take the road that one does not expect. It’s…

Jackson Wiederhoeft. Photo: Hunter AbramsThe surprise of the night came with the announcement of a 20th Anniversary Mentorship Award, presented by Gap Inc, which was presented to Grace Ling, who launched her label only four years ago and has already dressed Jennifer Lopez (twice). She will receive a year-long mentorship from Zac Posen, who will also be judging the selection committee next year.The winners were announced during a dinner in Manhattan’s famed Monkey Bar restaurant among a star-stuffed crowd that included designers, previous winners and finalists of the CVFF, and it needs to be said, David Beckham, accompanying his wife…