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Amazon, Flipkart’s private labels to face challenges with new e-com guidelines
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The private label businesses of Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart may come under regulatory lens, following fresh guidelines issued to e-commerce companies. The government's directive prohibits entities with equity participation in e-commerce marketplaces from selling products on its platform. The norms highlight how other sellers, who aren't...
UN to form alliance to make fashion more sustainable
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UN Environment - the United Nations’ agency assisting countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices - is set to launch an alliance on Sustainable Fashion in March. The alliance aims to encourage governments, NGOs and the private sectors to reduce fashion’s negative social, economical and environmental impact. According...
Fashion education: How to find the perfect school
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Anyone looking for a career in the fashion industry should get used to the idea of considering international fashion schools. The majority of international fashion houses still sits in Paris, Milan, London and New York, so learning the language of one’s preferred location while studying can’t hurt. Doing internships and applying with the...
MCM lands another ex-Adidas designer revealing a pattern
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Though Dirk Schönberger has stayed in the background at Adidas, what he has achieved for the German sporting goods maker in recent years has not gone unnoticed: collaborations with Raf Simons, Rick Owens and Kanye West and the revival of the Stan Smith sneaker can all be attributed to Schönberger. That is why the designer, born in 1966 in...
Expert career planning: changing jobs, negotiating salaries and promotions
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Since 2000, Ohms Consulting has been placing executives and specialists in the fashion, lifestyle and creative industries and through Ohms Retail Services, specialises in services and talent searches in premium and luxury retailing. With these many years of experience, CEO Jutta Ohms can easily answer a number of important questions about job...
10 Must-watch fashion talks
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Media usage and intake continues to change dramatically following waves of technological development and the subsequently shifting habits of millennials and succeeding generations. While television used to be king, videos are now being consumed more and more via on-demand streaming services like Youtube, and younger generations have become...
Christopher Raeburn x Timberland: sustainable consumption
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Christopher Raeburn is an extraordinary designer. The main reason for this is that the British designer has based his work on a philosophy that rests on three pillars: Remade, Reduced, Recycled. Ever since the label was founded, he has relied on materials that have been discarded elsewhere. He uses military waste materials in particular, for...
Timeline: Karl Lagerfeld fashion life in retrospective
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German designer Karl Lagerfeld is celebrating one more birthday today. While the Kaiser's age is a controversial subject (he celebrated his 70th birthday in 2008 and his 79th birthday in 2012), he is not showing any signs of slowing down: Chanel recently denied retirement rumours. One can, therefore, expect some more years of glamorous catwalks...
Timeline: Lidl’s journey into fashion
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Amsterdam Fashion Week kicked off this Thursday and one of the biggest surprises for this Spring/Summer 2019 season is the participation of discount retail chain Lidl. The collection, which will be presented on Sunday, September 9, was created in collaboration with the German retailer and supermodel Heidi Klum. This is the grocery chain’s second...
Video: Alexander Wang Spring 2019 Runway Show
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Presenting Ulla Johnson's Spring 2019 runway show in New York. Source: M2M – Made To Measure, YouTube