The autumn-winter 2020 menswear collection by Casablanca is a take on fashion that we’ve waited for a while. It’s dressy and modern and at the same time whimsical and dynamic. The collection features many sleek clothes, form shirts to coats to pants, which are made from soft fabrics in soft colors. There are many patterns […]
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Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is an expert in wearable technology design, functional clothes and goods made from smart textiles. After many years of experience as an industrial and fashion designer, as well as a professor and researcher at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she created the Interwoven Design Group. Her vast experience and knowledge have landed […]
World-famous American country singer Dolly Parton is known for her music as well as for her style. Once she said something about her looks that has become a popular quote, when she explained that “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”. It seems that this was the motto of the newest Paris […]
A new edition of Milan Fashion Week has recently taken place, as many Italian designers and brands showcased their menswear collections for the 2020 event. Given the recent outings in the runway landscape, we were quite reluctant and, at the same time excited to see what would come out of Milan this January. Runway shows […]
The fashion world, being a reflection of the world at large, is at a turning point, not just from a calendar point of view but from a cultural point of view as well. The new emerging technologies, called by many “disruptive” technologies, will make the world of tomorrow unrecognizable. In this sense, the new robotics, […]
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Trend Forecast Report: 2018
The 9th year of the decade was a year of a lot of unrest and movement, but not of impactful change. In many ways, the world of 2018, similarly to the entire decade was one of great digital movements. In other words, the passions and battles that unfolded were mostly semi-imaginary battles, with little to […]
Stella McCartney was once quoted as saying: “When you think of fashion photography, it’s a dream. It’s like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.” Moreover, Diana Vreeland is known for explaining that to her, it’s not so much about the clothes, but about the life you lead in the […]
Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor of Management & Human Resources at HEC in Paris. Before taking on this job, he was an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His research looks into the inner workings of creative industries, mostly focusing on fashion and luxury, often discussing subjects such as design, modeling, watchmaking, footwear […]
Fashion trends are an organic thing. They develop in a rather natural way: based on an action-reaction dynamic and as a reflection of society – more precisely said, of the mentalities of a society, of politics and of culture. We are at the moment heading into a new direction. What that direction will be more […]
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Trendbreakers
The fashion world is strongly connected to the concept of trends. In many ways, this is a natural thing; as fashion is a reflection of what is going on in the world in the present and of how people in society think, hence the forward-looking aspect of the fashion world. However, there is a very […]
For a few years now, more and more people are talking about the need to reinvent the fashion system, to rethink the way we look at runway shows and to do things differently. Not many propositions on how to change have been made yet though, as people either don’t have an idea of how fashion […]
The British capital took once again the spotlight of the fashion world, as many designers unveiled their Spring-Summer 2019 collections during the latest installment of London Fashion Week. The main trends we could see were a lot of neutral colors, especially gray and black. Most collections had a depressed and angry tone. The anger and […]