After teaming up with Iconix Brand Group, the company that’s behind brands such as Badgley Mischka and Rocawear, Madonna is launching MDG eyewear together with Dolce&Gabbana. It will be the first personally designed eyewear collection by the Queen of pop. The range features six styles, which are planned to launch for May 2010. “Designing an…
Elle magazine has launched a competition to find the high-street heroes who style the British nation. Those who work in retail and who have always dreamed of being a stylist should get the portfolios ready to work with one of the country’s best-selling women’s fashion magazines. Starting this week, Elle has started a nationwide search…
Celebrating the first anniversary of its menswear site, my-wardrobe.com achieved record sales of over £1m. The menswear sales of the UK online fashion retailer have totalled £1.4m in the first year of trading, exceeding 100 per cent like-for-like growth in sales for the first two weeks of 2010 against 2009. Now entering its third season,…
Burberry has returned to profit after opening new stores and spending more on online marketing. The British luxury brand reported pre-tax profits of £166m for the year to March. A year ago it made a loss of £16.1m, hit by charges at its Spanish operations. In the past year it has opened 21 new stores…
Red is the hottest colour and arouses passion, raising body heat and increasing the heart rate. If you have an important date and want to impress someone special this Valentines Day, wear red says Colour Consultant Jules Standish from www.colourconsultancy.co.uk says. “Whenever I wear red I feel assertive and dynamic”. Red demands attention and is…
Be inspired by a spectrum of must-have shades for Fall/Winter, as spotted on the runways of London, Milan and Paris. The F/W 2015-16 menswear shows saw men’s fashion updated with a range of directional colours, inspiring the Trendstop colour analysts with exciting looks fresh off the front row. The Fall/Winter 2015 catwalks revealed a fusion…
Four years after a public, drunken, anti semitic outburst nearly ended his fashion career, infamous fashion designer John Galliano is set to make his much anticipated comeback to the industry on Monday, during the final day of London Collections: Men, as the new creative head for Maison Martin Margiela. The ‘enfant terrible’ will be bowing…
Shakespeare, Dante and Marc Chagall served as the inspiration for Valentino’s SS15 Haute Couture collection, which was shown in Paris on Wednesday. The romance and storytelling was evident throughout, with Pierpaolo Ciccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri’s offering lavish details including gauzy fabrics, velvets, and exquisite embroideries. In practice that came out as a strong Russian…
The total value of the top 10 mass-market fashion labels remained stagnant in 2015 at 99.7 billion dollars, according to the 2015 BrandZ Study. The apparel category witnessed only a 0.1 percent change in brand value this year, a disappointing result following a 29 percent increase in 2014 when the clothing sector led all categories…
With online shopping at an all time high – the e-commerce market is in fact set to grown by a whopping 320 billion pounds between now and 2018 – and clothes design more innovative than ever, we’ve come a long way in fashion over the past decade alone. But what’s in store for the future?…