Month: May 2016
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Dior opens largest UK store yet in London
Dior has its sights well and truly set on London, and it is opening a new Mayfair boutique to prove it. The French fashion house is opening the doors to its new 'House of Dior' store this week, following the showing of its 2017 cruise collection in the UK capital on Tuesday. The four-storey building…
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Dior, in UK for cruise line, says new designer ‘work in progress’
Appointing a new Dior creative director is a “work in progress”, the French fashion house's chief executive said on Tuesday, with the luxury label still to name a head designer some six months after Raf Simons left to set up his own brand. Dior, one of the world's most famous designer houses, announced Simons' surprise…
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Alexander McQueen’s Paris store wins Prix Versailles for architecture
Alexander McQueen's Paris boutique has won the second edition of the Prix Versailles for Commercial Architecture, reports Women's Wear Daily.
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British Vogue celebrates 100 years with fashion history video
British Vogue celebrates 100 years in 2016 and is continuing its festivities with a newly launched video to look back at its 100 years of making fashion history. The video offers a brief history lesson into the iconic fashion magazine, currently helmed by Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman, looking at everything from movie star makeup in the…
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Rocket Internet’s sales growth slows as seeks to stem losses
By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) – Shares in German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet slid on Tuesday after it reported that revenue growth slowed sharply in the first quarter at most of its top start-ups as it took steps to try to reduce their losses. Rocket has pledged that the 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion)it burnt…
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Jason Wu invents Pantone shade ahead of release of new fashion line ‘Grey Jason Wu’
Jason Wu has teamed up with the global color authority Pantone on a custom shade of grey for the launch of his new fashion line. The designer has unveiled his own shade of the color ahead of the launch of his mainline label's sister brand 'Grey Jason Wu' this June. According to the New York-based…
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Luxury Brands Struggle to Attract Internet Generation
Seducing hyper-connected “Millennials” poses an increasing challenge for luxury brands, which find their markets slowing as young, skeptical consumers force them to rethink strategies. Goldman Sachs estimates that 92 million Americans are in the Millennial generation – born between the early 1980s and the 2000s – surpassing the famed cohort of postwar Baby Boomers who…
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Vuitton show draws fashion world to crisis-hit Brazil
NITEROI, Brazil (AP) — The fashion world has flocked to Brazil, defying an outbreak of the Zika virus, political chaos and an economic meltdown afflicting the country to attend a runway show by revered French house Louis Vuitton.