In the big leagues of fashion, there is only one designer who has consistently challenged the paradox of power and sex — and she’s done it with a laugh, a cigarette and a billion dollar business. “Ah, my kind of…
The Nishijin textile district in the north of Kyoto was established over 1200 years ago. Today, the relatively compact area covers only a few blocks just northwest of the city’s busy Imadegawa-Horikawa intersection. But there are no sprawling industrial factories…
Paris' haute couture is rightfully regarded as the very height of fashion: the petites mains who work in its ateliers, and the craftspeople of the savoir-faire maisons that supply them, work with a level of precision and skill unparalleled in…
Ever wonder why there's a teeny-tiny pocket above the regular ones in the front of your jeans? Or, more likely, have you ever gotten your thumb stuck in there due to its teeny-tiny smallness? Well, wonder no longer. It's a…
Diesel has always been a brand that played against the rules and as a result has produced some of the most interesting advertising campaigns over the last two decades. In a quest to bring the brand back to more relevance…
If luxury spending was indeed driven by the rich, the luxury industry would be a niche sector serving a fortunate few, rather than a dynamic, global business selling to a consumer market measured in millions. During the past 50 years,…
For a fashion house, implementing a new creative vision is rarely easy. The changeover takes time and often involves many moving parts — not just the clothes, but every aspect of the branding: from store design to advertising. Some…
Most people, when they picture the Tuscan countryside, probably imagine rolling hills, streaming sunlight and hilltop towns that look like they were plucked from the pages of a storybook. But on December two years ago, as an uncontrollable fire raged…
“Our aim for 2016 is to offer financial support to exceptional students who want to develop their collection in a sustainable, vegan and transparent way. Honest by is the official sponsor of the FFDS scholarship.The FFDS is the first scholarship…
For the first time, the authority on color has announced two colors of the year for 2016. They are Rose Quartz and Serenity. Both colors were on the list of most fashionable colors that PANTONE announced in September. According to…
Pronounced “eee-mooah-ee” IIMUAHII was started by Academy of Art alumni Elena Slivnyak in 2010. She was cast in Project Runway season 10 where she ended up presenting a press-favorite collection at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. One year later…
Bosideng is the biggest down jacket company in China, with 8000 + POS in China, and it's listed in HK Stock Exchange. For the 1st time "Made in China" want to be considered as "High-end" fashion competing with "Made in…
Giorgio Rossi remembers the good ol’ days, back when the Italian worked as a lifeguard at one of Rimini’s beaches on the Adriatic Sea. It was the 1970s, he recalls, and German and Swedish gals used to flock to the…
Produced by Filmhaus Wien and Schatzi Productions in association with Thought Engine, “Home Less” is about the underbelly of the American Dream, the hidden backyard of our society. Mark’s life stands as a metaphor for the struggle of the vanishing…
Dutch designer Nina Führer creates wool and cashmere scarves inspired by animals. Designed with a knitting machine and finished by hand in her atelier, these pieces shapes like foxes, cockatoos and badgers, roll around your neck to keep you warm…
Usually after visiting an Italian city, In our minds remain forever its monuments, palaces, streets, neighborhoods that we carry with us through photos. But it happens rarely that we dwell on city walls, their colors, their shades, often worn by…
In their late 20s, most women aren’t considering modelling careers, let alone at 59. But not only is 59-year-old grandmother Yasmina Rossi a fashion model, she’s a successful one too, working with numerous famous international brands like Marks & Spencer,…
A few minutes into the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy opens her eyes and surveys the Technicolor world around her. Dorothy follows the Yellow Brick Road, she arrives at the Emerald City, and she clicks her Ruby Red slippers. Those…
The fashion education sector is booming. As the scale and scope of the industry has grown over the last decade, and social media has opened up a once secretive business to the masses, the appeal of fashion as a career…
A good looking hairstyle can either make or break a man’s appearance as demonstrated in our post how much does hair really improve your look . It can be tiresome trying to keep up with the latest trends and that’s…