Design / Fashion
Fashion Briefing
Collaborations, new lines, designers and retailers.
Collaborations, new lines, designers and retailers.
Thursday 22 September
With craft and provenance ever more central to brand strategy in fashion, Première Vision textiles show in Paris has become an industry-leading event in recent years.
The biannual Pitti Uomo menswear show is a highlight of the fashion calendar but its host country isn’t the force it used to be. That necessitates an unfamiliar focus on expansion into foreign markets – and Japan is first…
Menswear sales are still recovering from a dip in 2005, but this season’s Pitti Uomo was attended by 21,000 buyers with significant growth in eastern European and Indian markets. And its fashions were similarly forward…
Although buyers’ budgets were cinched in and high-end fashion was kept in mothballs, the mood at this summer’s menswear show Pitti Uomo remained optimistic. This was reflected in the light, bright collections.
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