Month: December 2015

  • Humans, Not Hangers: Why It’s Time to Regulate the U.S. Fashion Industry

    Slender, and even skeletal, women have long been romanticized in the West, largely thanks to the omnipresent fashion industry saturating media of all types — print, online and broadcast — with images of rail-thin women. This takes a toll: Many runway models have a body mass index, or BMI, of less than 16, a degree…

  • Burberry campaign stars share their Christmas memories

    Burberry has unveiled a behind-the-scenes Christmas video as part of its festive campaign. “The Burberry Festive Film: Christmas with the cast” sees the brand's campaign stars comedian and TV host James Corden, supermodel Naomi Campbell and actress Julie Walters talking about their favorite Christmas memories and sharing top tips for the perfect holiday. “Just now…

  • Anna Ewers: 2015 Model of the Year

    Anna Ewers has been revealed as the models.com female 'Model of the Year' for 2015, confirming the German beauty's stratospheric rise to the top of the fashion world. Ewers was voted number one by a panel of 250 industry experts including designers, stylists and editors, and beat a short list of models including Karlie Kloss,…

  • Dior opens its largest China flagship store yet

    Christian Dior has opened its largest flagship store yet on mainland China. The Beijing 'China World' boutique is split across two levels, featuring a floor-to-ceiling, double layer glass façade that emulates fine feminine fabric in the fashion house's ‘Cannage' print. Each of the 10 pieces, which include a bench by Terence Main and a video…

  • Ralph Rucci Returns to New York Fashion Week

    The designer, who left his namesake label last year, returns to the runway with RR31.

  • Provisional dates for the Paris menswear fashion shows

    The Fall-Winter 2016-17 menswear collections will hit Paris from January 20 to 24. New additions to the schedule include two Japanese labels: White Mountaineering and Christian Dada.

  • 2015: the year of honest beauty?

    This week, fashion label & Other Stories unveiled a headline-grabbing lingerie campaign that hadn't been anywhere near an airbrushing tool. Featuring models with underarm hair, tattoos and scars, the campaign went viral almost instantly, being labelled as everything from “kickass” to “brave” in the global media. Starring a blogger, a cellist and a copywriter showcasing…

  • Three key looks from the Pre-Fall collections

    The Pre-Fall 2016 collections are coming thick and fast, and a few key trends have already emerged. Clean, neat romance was the name of the game at Ralph Lauren, where the collection focuses on classic, feminine styles with a modern twist. A crisp color palette of soft ducky pinks, camels and monochromatic black and white…

  • Three key looks from the Pre-Fall collections

    The Pre-Fall 2016 collections are coming thick and fast, and a few key trends have already emerged. Clean, neat romance was the name of the game at Ralph Lauren, where the collection focuses on classic, feminine styles with a modern twist. A crisp color palette of soft ducky pinks, camels and monochromatic black and white…

  • France clamps down on ultra-thin models, requires medical cert

    French lawmakers on Thursday adopted a bill forcing ultra-thin models to furnish a doctor's certificate confirming they are healthy and magazines that Photoshop their silhouette to tag the images as “touched up”. The bill stipulates that models must obtain a medical certificate stating that their health, “assessed in particular in terms of body mass index,…