Meet Fashion’s Next Generation: Over 60s

LONDON, United Kingdom — Lyn Slater, a 64-year-old college professor in New York, hates the concept of age. “When I was young, we were burning bras, we were getting high all the time and we dated all the time,” she said. “Why do you think we would accept that our life ends when we turn a certain age …

Meilishuo, the online fashion retailer backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., is in talks with several investment banks about a U.S. initial public offering that could value the startup at about $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The women-focused online retailer hosted a bake-off to discuss IPO …

JD Institute of Fashion Technology was founded in 1988 in Mumbai. Today the brand has opened 36 centres all over India, forged international collaborations and trained over 20,000 students. It is one of the most forward-looking design schools in the country. Here is a selection of the exciting opportunities …

The rumors had been swirling around the fashion ether for the last few months, but until The Post article appeared, no one had dared voice them in anything except a whisper. It was just so hard to imagine. Ms. Wintour has been shaping our experience of fashion and dressing and fame for as long as most …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—At this catwalk show, only women are allowed to watch, skirts can’t show off the knees and cleavage is strictly forbidden. Welcome to FashionWeek, Saudi-style. Saudi Arabia is hosting its first-ever Arab Fashion Week, an event that is testing the limits of what is acceptable in a …

Within fashion, Instagram remains “the place to be,” accounting for about 50 percent of brand posts (up from 30 percent two years ago), according to a 2017 report by Exane BNP Paribas. Even so, companies are abandoning broad social media strategies for tailored campaigns targeting a single platform.

Heading for a cigarette break during Saudi Arabia’s first-ever fashion week, Naya Efimova and Ira Titova were both excited and bored. Excited to be “part of history” as the conservative Islamic kingdom opens up, said Titova, 25. Bored, because they’d been told they couldn’t leave the hotel without a male …

Last February, Dawnn Karen, a brand consultant, therapist and instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, arrived at a Marcel Ostertag fashion show wearing five-inch studded stilettos and a black jumpsuit with a cape. “This cape makes me feel like Superwoman,” she said. “It’s that sense of control.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Africa is in the midst of a frenzied period of fashionweeks right now. From Lagos to Johannesburg and beyond, a number of industry showcases have been pulling together a disparate but intoxicating mix of African designers, elite African clients and media from both near …

Ms. Marchionni, a former Ferrari and Dolce & Gabbana executive who became CEO of Lands’ End in 2015, injected more fashion into the brand by overhauling its merchandise and marketing. The catalog, known for its informative product shots, morphed into a slick magazine. Despite telling employees at …