Canada Goose, luxury parkas brand, reportedly laid off 125 employees due to Covid -19 according to Fashion Network. The company reported that employees who were laid off will receive compensation packages and will get to keep their equipment such as, computers and phones.
by Sarah Brooks
A regular at the Venice International Film Festival where she is presenting the film “Broken English” directed by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth and in which she plays a leading role, actor Tilda Swinton navigates Venice’s streets with effortless expertise, wearing CHANEL.
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented fashion week calendars. And what an innovation!
For the first time Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks will go digital. In a statement by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode on Wednesday, Paris Fashion Week is noted to take place from July 9 to 13 and will be focusing primarily on film and video formats; following closely will be Milan Fashion Week.
helmut lang fall 1998Photo: Courtesy hl-art
Fun fact: Helmut Lang Fall 1998 collection was the first fashion show that took place online and the whole collection was presented on a digital platform and CD-rom.
Lang shared with Vogue, "I sensed at the time that the Internet would grow into something much bigger than imaginable, so I thought it was the right moment to challenge the norm and present the collection online. It was a shock to the system, but a beginning of the new normal. In terms of the broader context of the industry, we made in the same season the entire collection available on a public platform, allowing consumers for the first time to get an unfiltered view of my work.”
Digital move is to obstruct social distancing requirements.
by Sarah Brooks
You bet! While stores are closed, events are canceled, the stock market is down, the state of fashion is unpromising, there is hope for the fashion industry. The online secondhand fashion market is booming amid the lockdown. Users around the world spend more time online and companies like eBay and StockX are running their business as usual, with only exception that employees are working-from-home.
This week's top vintage secondhand online platform theREMODA announces its launch. The fashion resale space is one that’s heating up as all the brick-and-mortar locations are closed and more consumers go online to buy and sell clothing and accessories. theREMODA is home to secondhand consignment shops and boutiques from around the world.
The niche of theREMODA resale space is a curation of the latest trends and ready-to-wear looks put together from its products. Aside from finding the most perfect pieces for the fraction of its original price, theREMODA serves as a styling guide by suggesting to shopper what is trending and how to mix and match for the desired perfection.
by Juliet Belkin
You've seen her on runways for Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Jacquemus and more.
The Gucci Cruise 2021 collection will take place in San Francisco on Monday 18 May 2020. This was announced by the creative director of the maison Alessandro Michele.
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Italian brands, large and small, begin to deal with the impacts of Coronavirus.
According to Fashion Networks, he Calzedonia group closed 2019 with a turnover of 2,411 million euros, up + 4.7% at current exchange rates (+ 4.4% at constant exchange rates) compared to the 2,303 million euros in 2018. export, which reached 56% of total sales, and e-commerce.
Giorgio Armani dedicates an exhibition to Peter Lindbergh , the famous German photographer who passed away last year. The exhibition, entitled 'Heimat. A Sense of Belonging ', will be set up in the spaces of Armani / Silos and inaugurated by the designer on the occasion of the Milanese fashion shows in February.
Tiffany’s shareholders have given their approval to the acquisition of the American jeweler by the luxury giant LVMH, for the record figure of 16.2 billion dollars, according to a statement from the group of Bernard Arnault.
The government provides rules to protect the tanning sector. "The Italian tanning industry is the best in the world for the quality of the product, but unfortunately it is suffering from various factors that mainly concern the crisis in the footwear and automotive sector. To help this industrial sector so important for the country, the Government will approve the next council of ministers a legislative decree in transposition of the 2018 European law that provides new provisions for the use of the terms leather, leather and fur to protect the Italian tannery and consumers who will thus have certainty about the real composition of the materials used ". This was announced by Alessia Morani, Undersecretary of Economic Development.
Mother and son, two of the finest alpinists of their eras, gone too soon, a quarter of a century apart.
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