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Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Although Estonia-born, London-based designer Johanna Parv had worked with leather before, she never thought the material could be used to create stretchy, breathable and protective (reflective) leather for urban cyclists. However, earlier this year while attending a workshop at Ecco’s Netherlands-based tannery, the creative was able to unlock this innovative new design. On Monday, the jackets will appear in her debut solo show at London Fashion Week.“Often, the majority of brands do not own their manufacturing. As a result, they do not have…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Self-Portrait has launched a new residency programme, and has tapped Christopher Kane as its first guest.Through the programme, Self-Portrait will open the doors to its London studio and headquarters, where it has created a new design hub for artists from a variety of disciplines. The idea is to provide innovative creatives with the resources, infrastructure, platforms, manpower and distribution networks to realise their design vision. Kane’s residency is a one-off engagement, but the collection will roll out across retailers from the end of…

In the UK, disabled people have an estimated annual spending power of around £274 billion. “It’s not just about giving blind and low-vision people a more accessible experience, it’s also about brands understanding that if they adopt more of [these inclusive practices] they’ll open themselves up to a community of [millions] of low-vision people globally,” says Cofone. “There’s the business side of it, too: if we educate the community and let them understand what a key piece in a collection is, they’ll feel empowered and want to spend money.” Outside of fashion week, brands could implement tactile clothing labels and…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.As fashion workers continue to draw attention to poor working conditions in the sector, the Fashion UK union branch is asking industry workers to shed light on their experiences in order to better understand the changes that need to transpire.Fashion UK’s ‘State of the Sector’ survey launches today, as London Fashion Week kicks off — expect some flyers backstage with QR codes. The anonymous survey covers a range of topics including employment, job satisfaction, finances, mental well-being, health and safety, and diversity and…

Season four features labels such as Carven, Vivienne Westwood, Jacquemus, Ganni, Ralph Lauren and Nina Ricci. The show has birthed scores of Instagram accounts like @EmilyInParisOutfits (170,000 followers), @LilyCollinsStyle (31,900 followers) and @EmilyInParisOutfit (25,600 followers), which break down and identify looks from the show. On TikTok, there are seven million posts featuring the term “Emily in Paris clothes”. To capitalise on demand, Netflix teamed up with Google Lens this season to allow fans to use the image recognition technology to shop looks or find similar pieces to those featured in the show.On global shopping platform Lyst, searches for “Jacquemus cardigans”…

For Delphine Arnault, who founded the Prize in 2013, this was an occasion to “represent craftsmanship, quality, sustainability and sustainable development,” she explained in an interview. “We believe that these are values that are increasingly important today and that reflect the expectations of today’s consumers. It’s also an integral part of our business. Know-how is essential, and know-how is passed down from generation to generation. So we thought it would be interesting to bring this dimension into the Prize, to reward this dimension in particular.”About Hodakova’s winning vision, she added, “she showed us a lot of her creations around belts,…

Still, Kamara appears to have spotted an anomaly — and is now exploiting it. Off-White was always a bit of an oddity at Paris Fashion Week. Its ultra-American essence was on display when Abloh upended classic cars as sets in a devotion to US car culture, or when he showed in a Paris parking garage in another reminiscence about American car culture. Europeans knew the label was cool, but it was never clear that they could intrinsically relate to the message.Photo: Armando Grillo / Gorunway.comLike Abloh and Williams, Kamara is using his world to take Off-White forward, and he says…

Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts.Sarah Burton is the new creative director of Givenchy, the LVMH-owned fashion house announced on Monday.Burton, who will be responsible for the creative direction of all of the women’s and men’s collections effective immediately, called Givenchy “a jewel”: “I am so excited to be able to write the next chapter in the story of this iconic house and to bring to Givenchy my own vision, sensibility and beliefs,” she said in a statement.In September 2023, Burton became a free agent when Vogue Business…

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