Finally, the Fall 2018 Fashion Finale

So on Wednesday in the fashion world stumbled, only to discover what looked like the landing pad for a giant intergalactic spaceship at the end of the ramps that once led the animals into the stables. Now, they were a runway, down which came a parade of Starship Troopers in vestiges of the outfits of the …

Most chains design items based on high-fashion runway templates, send the blueprints to Asia for low-cost production, then market them to consumers through well-located stores. But now online sales are cannibalizing store sales, while social media bring consumers closer to fashion trends, meaning …

From inspiring James Scully’s Model Safety Charter with Kering and LVMH, to spotlighting Sinead Burke’s advocacy for adaptive design, VOICES, in partnership with QIC Global Real Estate, continues to provide a powerful platform for some of the most important issues facing the global fashion industry.

Towards the end of last year, we were at fashion week swooning over puff-sleeved gothic blouses on Stella McCartney’s catwalk, while wearing Versace knits with POWER or UNITY emblazoned from elbow to wrist. “The Statement Sleeve – STILL!” proclaimed Vogue in its spring trend report, reporting on …

The brand’s spring 2018 fashion show, held last June in the verdant Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, featured a parade of models in oversize color-striped windbreakers, pale jeans similar to those that made Barack Obama dad-in-chief and bloated running shoes in the style of podiatrist-approved Asics.

Products were “made even harder to come by as non-communist media was censored and Russians were fed a diet of anti-capitalist propaganda,” says Alec Leach, Highsnobiety’s fashion editor, in the publication’s new documentary titled “Counterfeit Culture Moscow” — the second in an ongoing series on …

The company didn’t comment on the uproar and declined to comment for this article. Many fashion and beauty companies have built their brands on sexualized images and depictions of beauty unattainable for average women. The #MeToo movement and the rise of socially conscious millennials who …

Claim to Fame Ms. Katebi is the brains behind the politically charged fashion blog Joojoo Azad, in which she describes herself as a “sarcastic (and angry) Muslim-Iranian creative and community organizer.” The site frequently casts a spotlight on reductive media representations of hijab-wearing Muslim …

SOMETIMES fashion’s mood can be distilled into one picture. After a month of runway shows proposing trends both subtle and decidedly unsubtle, that picture was a snapshot of two chic potted trees at the base of a spiral staircase in Céline’s Paris headquarters. It was posted mournfully across the …

In an effort to re-instill that confidence, Borgo made a pilgrimage to Paris FashionWeek in February for market and editorial appointments, joined by Parenti and his longtime studio director Beitressa Mandelbaum, who has returned to consult for the brand. “Our issue was never in sales, the company has …