In recent years Amazon has increasingly tried to gain market share in the online retail-business. One key step in this process was the launch of their ‘Prime Wardrobe’ service which allows customers to try on items at home before buying them. The launch of the e-commerce giant’s latest service lead to a slump in shares of many US department stores such as Macy’s and Nordstrom but also of European online specialists such as ASOS and Zalando. Through this initiative and many others such as launching a private label Amazon has managed to ramp up its presence in the apparel market and currently boasts a 29 percent share of the US…
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H&M x Erdem Collaboration
H&M has been doing successful collaborations with high-end designers for more than ten years. Starting off in 2004 with Karl Lagerfeld, the high-street giant’s works with the fashion industry’s biggest names never failed to impress. This year, H&M announced that the next exclusive collection will be with ERDEM, collaborating with a London-based designer for the first time in eight years. Erdem Moralioglu designed his first ever menswear collection for the collaboration, and he aims for the garments to pass between genders, stating, “I’m so happy with it, and I think so many women are going to love the men’s collection too.” The collection will also include slightly more casual pieces…
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A successful succession?
In July of 2017, the iconic store Colette, hailed as the ‘temple of Parisian cool’ and claimed by Karl Lagerfeld as the only place he frequents, shocked the fashion world by announcing its permanent closure at the end of the year. On the store’s Instagram account, the company wrote, “Colette Roussaux has reached the time when she would like to take her time; and Colette cannot exist without Colette.” Roussaux and her daughter Sarah Andelman’s decision is not a sentiment regularly echoed by the fashion industry. Granted, few fashion companies operate as Colette does, with only one store (above which Colette herself lives), an e-shop, and a system that relies…
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La Biennale di Venezia: Where art wears fashion
Every other year, the timeless Serenissima opens its doors to the Art Biennial, one of the most prestigious and avant-garde art festivals in the world. The Biennale buzz travels through the magical venetian canals and meets the world. You have definitely scrolled through Lorenzo Quinn’s monumental sculpture, titled Support, in your Instagram feed: a pair of gigantic hands rising from the city’s emerald waters, embracing the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel as a statement of the effect of the rising water-levels due to climate change. Lorenzoquinn.com Yet, the Art Biennial does not merely gather the greatest artistic pioneers of our time. La Biennale di Venezia is also a runway for the ‘crème…
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Asian Takeover in High Fashion
Have you realised that Fendi’s Instagram page mentions Asian influencers and models more than ever these days? Even though the increasing diversity makes us happy to see, there’s more to that. Millennial social media influencer’s have a bigger impact on the fashion world more than any year, especially in Asia. Chinese being in the lead, Asian millennials are one of the biggest spending groups in the world. Designer items (17%) and jewellery (17%) are the categories they spend most money on after high-end tech (25%). Most of the Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean millennials prefer Western brands to local ones. When they have such a big impact in Chinese economy,…
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MyTheresa launches exclusive collection with Off-White
After the collaboration with Miu Miu, MyTheresa will be launching another capsule collection on Wednesday, the 17th of May. This time, the luxury online shop will make it happen with Milanese based brand Off-White, currently one of the most hyped streetwear labels out there. Founder and creative director of the it-label, Virgil Abloh, has designed an eight-piece collection exclusively for MyTheresa. Virgil Abloh has been equipping the fashion industry with his signature logo-hoodies – there is hardly a street-style gallery that does not comprise at least one Off-White-Look. The collection for MyTheresa.com exhibits the typical tailoring of Off-White. It features feminine pieces like flowing silk blouses as well as items…
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Memes are the new Campaigns
Social media craze is present everywhere in our lives. Fashion brands are using every social media channel efficiently for marketing purposes however Gucci took this one step further and launched memes instead of campaign editorials. The latest trend on internet is memes, relatable and funny posts that address millennials. Gucci hired “international meme creators” and created the collaborative project called #TFWGucci. The Instagram posts had direct reference to popular memes, which made Internet humour lovers “laugh-out-loud” while leaving some of their followers clueless. For the ones that do not know the Internet slang “TFW” translates to “That feeling when”. #TFWGucci, emphasis on the hashtag, was the campaign for brand’s new…
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A new era of shopping
In 2016, a survey by firm comScore and UPS showed that consumers are buying more online than in stores. This should not surprise anyone as nowadays technology is developing fast enough to provide people with the possibility to get a 360° online shopping experience through different technology devices from smartphones to laptops. These days online shopping is becoming the fastest and easiest way of purchasing. The process is very simple, the first step is to select the product desired and finally choose the way of payment preferred, from payment at the delivery to credit cards. On the websites, it is possible to see photos and videos of the objects which…
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Fashion & Travel: the perfect match
More and more fashion companies are trying to expand their business to a new frontier: the luxury hotel industry. This trend started with new consumers’ attitudes, people want to have a 360° lifestyle experience and meanwhile feel part of an exclusive “elite”. This new reality is both the consequence of financial uncertainty, resulted from years of crisis, and of the notable increase in bargaining power of social platforms. Nowadays appearance is the hub of a society where social networks are becoming one of the main tools of communication. The phenomenon started in 1995 with Ferragamo’s family, and in the following years it spread to fashion designers such as Missoni, Versace and…
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World of Fashion Welcomes the Hijab
After 19 year old model Halima Aden dazzled the runway wearing a hijab at Yeezy Season 5 during New York Fashion Week 2017 people had various reactions. Some fashion people praised the casting team for including a model of diversity, while some voices declared a negative feedback for promoting the idea of oppression that is associated with hijab. But what does this bold act actually mean? Aden, is not the only one bringing hijab in to the fashion world. Just a month later from the Muslim-ban crisis in USA, the American brand Nike launched their first product directed to Muslim women: Nike Pro Hijab. The headpiece is created from mesh…
