The Latest Trend at Fashion Houses? ‘Sustainability’ Experts

One of the buzziest jobs in the fashion industry is also one of the least glamorous. The title is sustainability director or chief sustainability officer—a relatively new role more likely to be held by a policy wonk than a follower of runway trends. “I like fashion but I am not a fashionista,” said Marie-Claire Daveu, …

Entrepreneur Camilla Olson was in town to promote her fashion-tech software solution Savitude, which uses AI to recommend clothing based on a shopper’s shape and proportions. Before Savitude, Olson founded two predictive modeling companies and designed an eponymous fashion label, both of …

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.

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 …

Among many awards, Givenchy received the Legion of Honour, one of France’s most prestigious accolades, in 1983 and a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1995, the year in which he retired. His successor was John Galliano, followed by Alexander McQueen, …

Over the past year or two there has been a collective shift in fashion towards a new uniform, which has three essential elements: a blazer, jeans and a pair of ankle boots. This is a fantastic formula for several reasons. First, I can’t think of an outfit that so straightforwardly answers the dress code “smart …

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 … A version of this article appears in print on March 7, 2018 , on Page D6 of the New York edition with the headline: A Fashion Blogger With a Message.

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 …

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 …