This is the most politically engaged young generation we’ve seen for decades, with a conscience and quite a lot of anger and despair at the state of the world, as well as understandable frustration at a corporate system which has largely ceased to offer the opportunities which were dangled in front of them when they went into expensive education. | | | | Float. Model at Issey Miyake RTW S/S 1994 during Paris Fashion Week, Oct. 1993.
(Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) | | | | | | “This is the most politically engaged young generation we’ve seen for decades, with a conscience and quite a lot of anger and despair at the state of the world, as well as understandable frustration at a corporate system which has largely ceased to offer the opportunities which were dangled in front of them when they went into expensive education.”
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| | rantnrave:// STELLA MCCARTNEY has been making sustainability moves for years, but the company seems to be gathering momentum with an impressive spread of environmental initiatives that cover sourcing, strategic partnerships, zero emissions, and ongoing environmental P&L. The label is poised to lead the industry into 21st-century thinking, aligning cost, values, technology, and profit. This is the new luxury. And profits are up by almost half. The S/S 2018 collection held its own on design and aesthetic merit. From the "trashion bag" invites to the flowing jumpsuits and "Skin-Free Skin" trousers, McCartney doesn't sacrifice design for intelligent environmental efforts. She has an intuitive sense of what women want to wear. The label may be able to coax a customer otherwise repelled by "faux" leather into viewing new alternatives as innovative—and luxurious. With organizations like MIROSLAVA DUMA's FASHION TECH LAB getting started, expect to see more in this space. McCartney also announced a partnership with THEREALREAL, citing the re-commerce model as reducing fashion's impact on the planet. It's a coup for JULIE WAINRIGHT and company. The fact that a top-tier fashion label not only publicly acknowledges resale, but encourages and partners with a resale company, feels like a turn. Resale has been a reality for the luxury market for quite some time, but it's been viewed as a threat rather than a place to form partnerships. As for the work e-commerce has to do, consider operations, fueling delivery transport, and logistics. Everyone can do more. The commercial opportunity is there. And there are clear PR benefits... More from PARIS: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, SACAI... ALEXANDER WANG steps back from CEO role... A$AP ROCKY's bodega... TWITCH has an online merch store... MARIANO FORTUNY is the subject of the latest PALAIS GALLIERA exhibition... Our hearts go out to LAS VEGAS. Here's how you can help. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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| The group, which accepts funding from companies like Gap Inc. and Target, is a powerful lobbying force in Washington. | | |
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| The RealReal announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the designer on the newly formed "National Consignment Day." | | |
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| Aromatic oils have become big business. But are they medicine or marketing? | | |
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| Clare Waight Keller returns the brand to tailoring, promisingly. Plus: Gvasalia goes his own way at Balenciaga, and Philo gets personal at Céline. | | |
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| New perspectives and experimentation at Valentino, Stella McCartney and Céline. | | |
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| Plus, unexpectedly fresh and gorgeous ideas for cargo pants, tank dresses and walking shorts. | | |
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| Developers of premium shopping centres are reducing their dependence on fashion retail and doubling down on food, wellness and other lifestyle offerings. | | |
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| Tenured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for over two decades, curator, writer, editor, and lecturer Paola Antonelli has long since made it her mission to reconfigure the lens through which we view art and design, championing everyday objects over the esoteric. | | |
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| Come into this Comme candy shop and stuff yourself silly with flowers, fruit and faces! | | |
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| Balenciaga’s Crocs are the latest in designer Demna Gvasalia’s campaign to blur the lines between luxury fashion and the clothing we insist belongs outside of it. | | |
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| It’s the shoe that people love to hate. But in a brand reboot, Crocs is calling out its haters in a politically charged message about tolerance. | | |
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| Many brands are still spending big bucks on influencers with upward of a million followers, despite multiple reports that micro-influencers, which demand much lower rates, are more effective at driving ROI. Rhiyen Sharp, whose resume includes years at IMG and New York Models, has represented a wide range of influencers, from models and musicians to Instagram "it" girls. | | |
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| While photoshopping is completely commonplace in fashion advertising and editorials, retouched imagery from a number of the fashion industry's leading brands will look a bit different from now on. | | |
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| Helmut Lang digital editor Ava Nirui discusses her experiences with luxury and counterfeit culture. | | |
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| Cartier sunglasses have long been a fashion staple in Detroit. Urban Outfitters even sold knockoffs as "Vintage Detroit Oval Sunglasses" at one point. But the status symbol has also been a target for crime in a city with a well-worn reputation for violence. Writer Zach Goldbaum recently dissected that checkered history for "GQ." | | |
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| Here is what you need to know about Estée Lauder's China strategy, which has proven very effective in boosting the brand's sales in the region. | | |
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| To celebrate its seventh anniversary, Birchbox hosted its annual Customer Appreciation Day, a day full of giveaways and promotions. This year, with the goal of driving sales to its e-commerce site, it enacted a 40-person social media war room to reach out to as many customers as possible with personalized offers. | | |
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| Meet a group of friends with nails as long as their fingers. | | |
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| Making a name for themselves, two upstart fashion designers prowl the backstreets and strip malls of Los Angeles in search of the best materials and crafts people. | | |
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| Businesses based in the United States that use Bigcommerce now have access to Instagram's shoppable posts, the e-commerce platform announced today. This is one of the latest steps in Instagram's gradual roll out of the feature, which began testing last November. | | |
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