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PHOTOS: Native Americans in North Texas walk in the inaugural fashion show
Explore more Arts Access stories. On a chilly Saturday afternoon, North Texans strutted around the AT&T Discovery District courtyard dressed in flowing ribbon skirts, round-rimmed sunglasses, denim and buckskin. This past weekend marked the first inaugural fashion show at the Native American Heritage Month Powwow, hosted by the AT&T Employees Intertribal Council. Around 40 contestants, […]
Crown to Couture Fashion Exhibition at Kensington Palace
Red carpet couture and historic royal fashion will merge next spring in a fascinating new exhibition at Kensington Palace. Titled Crown to Couture, the installation will feature everything from a Met Gala gown worn by Lizzo to shimmering royal gowns worn at the 18th-century Georgian court. The palace, itself famous as the setting for historic […]
Opinion | Fast fashion is hard to avoid, but not impossible
transport on social media platforms. These brands offer the newest and trendiest fashion pieces at extremely low prices, but there’s a reason why all the products are so cheap. 60%When are you going to website, one of the first things you see is their “Over 1000 New Styles Added” promotion. That is an absurd number […]
Skyway’s vacancy offers the opportunity of a lifetime for a clothing manufacturer
Updated: 13:30 As with other commercial areas, the St. Paul skyway has seen an increase in businesses closed in the past two years. Retail stores and restaurants closed by the dozen as the pandemic kept customers away. But for clothing manufacturer Rammy Mohamed, this crisis has given rise to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Rammy Mohamed works […]
Chinese fashion retailer Shein to open permanent “event space” in Tokyo
with the aim of reinforcing its brand online with a physical presence. Shoppers will be able to search for clothes in the store and scan QR codes that will allow them to make purchases online. The space can be modified to host fashion shows and designer events as needed, the spokesperson said. Launched in 2008, […]
Chanel’s New Milan Space, Yomiuri Giants New Merch Deal – WWD
BIDDING SEASON: Chanel has won the bid for the concession of the 2,030-square-foot space in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, currently used by Tod’s, for an annual fee of 2.35 million euros. The auction was held Monday in Milan, and beside the French luxury fashion house, drew in six additional luxury brands including Loro Piana, Samsonite, […]
Nigerian teens create fashion out of trash to fight pollution
Lagos, Nigeria — Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash into runway outfits for a “Trashion Show.” Chinedu Mogbo, founder of the Greenfingers Wildlife Initiative, a conservation group that works with activists, said the program was designed to raise awareness about environmental pollution. Lagos, one of Africa’s most populous cities with more […]
Tom Ford has just sold his fashion brand to Estée Lauder. That probably makes him a billionaire.
Estée Lauder announced this week that it will acquire Tom Ford’s eponymous fashion company, likely to make the designer a billionaire. The cosmetics company, which owns several other brands including MAC and Clinique, said it bought the brand in a deal valued at $2.8 billion that ended this week. As part of the deal, the […]
Can you trust the label? Fast fashion under increasing scrutiny for greenwashing
Laura McAndrews has seen and heard some things that the fashion industry wouldn’t want the public to know about. For many years, his job was to find factories to produce millions of items of clothing for big American brands like The Gap and Anthropologie. He began to worry about the environmental impact of clothing just […]