Fresh and progressive, discover the latest Spring/Summer 2015 runway trends pinpointed by the Trendstop Catwalk team. This week we're focusing on materials, showcasing two essential texture directions from the 40 analysed by our materials trend experts in the Trendstop Materials on the Catwalks Fresh and progressive, discover the latest...
Oct 27, 2014
Topshop's most famous customer Beyoncé is taking her appreciation of the British brand a step further: on Friday, the US-american singer has formed the 50-50 joined venture company Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd. with the multinational retailer. According to WWD, the first brick-and-mortar and online stores of the new athletic streetwear or...
What happens to all the knowledge about the fashion industry when designers, for example, give up the business? – The knowledge is passed on to the next generation of designers of course! FashionUnited wanted to share this knowledge and asked around at German universities to hear from professors who once worked for big labels. We wanted to know...
Oct 24, 2014
The Oscar-winning Hollywood comedy "Death Becomes Her" has lent its name to a New York exhibition that reveals nothing was more becoming to a 19th century widow than black crepe. With dozens of dresses, jewelry, hats, accessories and magazine prints, the exhibition, which opened earlier this week, looks back on a time when European and American...
Oct 23, 2014
“At last the time has come, James Bond has arrived,” said Emily Ansenk, director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which is currently home to the traveling exhibition 'Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style.' After opening in London and showing in Toronto, Melbourne and Moscow the exposition, which celebrates the design craft...
Oct 22, 2014
Oscar de la Renta dressed generations of the world's most iconic women, from former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy to lawyer Amal Alamuddin, bride to modern Hollywood royal George Clooney. Tributes poured in on Tuesday for the Dominican-born designer, who moved to New York in the 1960s and defined American fashion over five decades, creating a...
The Global Denim Awards aims to become the industry's version of the Grammy's or the Emmy's, honoring and celebrating denim. The first edition of the award ceremony will be held next week, during which six designers will showcase a capsule collection consisting of five complete looks, incorporating various denim washes and treatments, in a...
Oct 21, 2014
British thread and consumer textile maker Coats plc celebrates 25 years of operating in Bangladesh. To mark the occassion and the company's successfull venture with the AK Khan Group in Bangladesh, which started in October 1989, a gala event took place on 19th October in Dhaka, where the opening of a state-of-the-art zips factory in Chittagong...
Oscar de la Renta, one of America's pre-eminent designers, died Monday night at the age of 82, after a long battle with cancer. The Dominican Republic born designer leaves a legacy of work that was both glamorous and romantic. A favourite of the White House's First Ladies, it was de la Renta that Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush...
Immerse yourself in a spectrum of essential new shades fresh off the Spring/Summer 2015 catwalks, as Banana Essence and Blueberry Milk update new season styles with a contemporary feel. Both of these inspirational colours have been taken from the Trendstop Colour on the Catwalks S/S15 Report, Immerse yourself in a spectrum of essential new...
Oct 20, 2014
Luxury fashion label Burberry is being called upon to end its use of real fur in its collections in a personalized campaign launched by international animal welfare organization Four Paws. Entitled #SaveKimi, the campaign was created by Four Paws to increase public awareness of the harsh reality endured by animals raised and slaughtered on farms...
Protests in Hong Kong, an economic slowdown and anti-corruption drive in China and a coup in Thailand: Asia is no longer a market of constant growth for luxury goods firms. LVMH, world number-one in the sector and owner of brands like Louis Vuitton, Givenchy and Dior, saw its sales drop by 3 percent in Asia, excluding Japan, in the third-quarter...