Even though most brands now have a presence in most major countries, the way [fashion leaders] in the West approach the rest of the world needs to change. Apart from China, I don’t think they give most other emerging markets enough attention or acknowledge their contributions or needs or even their market value. | | | | The Alps. Switzerland, Mademoiselle 1963.
(George Barkentin/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Even though most brands now have a presence in most major countries, the way [fashion leaders] in the West approach the rest of the world needs to change. Apart from China, I don’t think they give most other emerging markets enough attention or acknowledge their contributions or needs or even their market value.”
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 | The New York Times |
| Farfetch, the other big name, is a online marketplace for 500 independent luxury boutiques and 200 brands as well as the owner of the bricks-and-mortar store Browns in London. The stakes are high. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Douglas Heye wears suits. Like a lot of men, he gives a fair amount of consideration to the way those suits are styled. Unlike a lot of men, he is willing and able to break down those considerations into specifics. | | |
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| With over two decades of collaboration under their belts, designers and creative directors, Paul Harvey and Alessandro Pungetti, have formed a successful team that quite simply, works. Their contribution to the menswear landscape, both separately and as a partnership, is significant to say the least. | | |
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 | Racked |
| In the 1975 psychological thriller "The Stepford Wives," Joanna Eberhart finds herself surrounded by mundane, passive, domestic bombshells dressed in ruffly summer dresses and wide-brimmed hats. They're uninterested in her feminist urgings and only seem to care about housework and baking. They, of course, have been turned into subservient robots by their sagging Men's-Club-member husbands. | | |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| 2017 was a year of bold strides in apparel innovation. Here's a roundup of the past year's wildest innovations in clothing technology. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The American ready-to-wear brand is turning reclaimed garments into an economically viable collection of renewed and remade clothing. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| These are flush times for Gucci, the 96-year-old house that in recent years has become fashion’s all-conquering luxury brand. And amid booming sales, Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s creative director since 2015, has introduced the brand’s first high-end fine jewelry line, a series of extravagant styles that present the designer’s florid evocations of flea market finds as gem-encrusted treasures. | | |
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 | Quartzy |
| Big pledges can draw a lot of attention and praise, but it's the follow-through that matters. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| From the face clamp to the skeleton corset, he shares the stories behind his multiple collaborations with the British designer. | | |
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 | British Vogue |
| The designer muses on returning to the country of his birth, his inspiration for the new show and the recent deaths of his two great fashion sparring partners, Azzedine Alaïa and Pierre Bergé. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A conversation with the editor of the trade publication 'Packaging Digest.' | | |
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| Highsnobiety |
| Ever since opening its doors in 1994, Supreme has become a global phenomenon with stores in Europe, the United States, and Japan. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
| Plus a fly new streetwear line dropping at Dover Street Market this week. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| A group of established and emerging brands are pushing the boundaries on the British high street and beyond to create timeless pieces with accessible prices. | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| Luxury beauty company Coty can stop retailers from selling its products online, Europe's top court has ruled. The European Court of Justice said a supplier could prohibit the selling of its goods on platforms such as Amazon to protect its luxury image. | | |
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 | WWD |
| The former model alleged his job prospects may have been affected by his unwillingness to hang out with his agent. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| When it comes to mannequins, dress forms and other displays for dressing the human body, do museums have a responsibility to exhibit garments - particularly contemporary fashion - more realistically? | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| Eckhaus Latta’s Los Angeles gallery-shop hybrid lends the aura of artworks to their well-curated wares. | | |
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| Fashionista |
| Free x Rein is aiming to disrupt the sport’s antiquated business model. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Kostas Murkudis explains why he’s not a fan of the logo trend and why he doesn't call himself a minimalist designer. | | |
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