London fashion week Burberry takes online show to the British countryside This being a catwalk season for unprecedented times, the headline show of London fashion week took place deep in the British countryside. Burberry began with an elegant young woman dressed in an expensive-looking deconstructed trenchcoat over sharp black leggings striding through a forest, flanked […]
MPs urge government to fix throwaway fast fashion trend The government is being urged by a cross-party group of MPs to take urgent steps to fix throwaway ‘‘fast fashion’’ by supporting the development of fabrics with a lower environmental impact and boosting clothing recycling facilities. After Covid-19 exposed its “faultlines”, the industry needs to follow […]
Vestiaire Collective Launches Charity Sale With Pieces from Kate Moss Naomie Harris and More Secondhand September is officially underway, and Vestiaire Collective is giving consumers even more of a reason to buy secondhand wares this month with the launch of its second charity sale. The idea is to encourage people to buy only secondhand clothing […]
John Boyega quits role as Jo Malone brand ambassador John Boyega has resigned from his role as a brand ambassador for British cologne company Jo Malone following the news he was cut out of the Chinese version of a commercial he had conceived. Boyega publicly announced his decision on Twitter. I have decided to step […]
Black owned fashion brand launches luxury durags A black-owned fashion brand has started selling a range of durags amid dismay that black hair continues to be policed and discriminated against. This week, pharmacies across South Africa removed TRESemmé products from their stores after the company was branded racist. An advert from the hair company showed […]
TikTok to host its own month long digital fashion event The social media platform TikTok has announced its own fashion month as a digital innovation aimed at rivaling the physical fashion weeks that take place around the world as well as to try to threaten Instagram’s supremacy over fashion content online. The month-long event will […]
Face masks pick perilous path from health protector to fashion accessory At the Venice Film Festival the actor Tilda Swinton pulled out an ornate gold design face mask and wore it on the red carpet, just like she would have with a statement clutch bag or a must-have piece of jewellery. The mask was not […]