Tag: united
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Accra fashion week fights for female empowerment
Reality star Kim Kardashian and singer Rihanna may have popularised the style overseas, but in conservative Ghana, African designers are hoping to use these racy looks to help young women challenge the traditional status quo. “Everyone should be able to express themselves and not be oppressed in any way,” said designer Josefa Da Silva, an…
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Landing with a bump? Germany’s Rocket falls back to earth
By Emma Thomasson and Chijioke Ohuocha BERLIN/LAGOS (Reuters) – When German e-commerce investor Rocket Internet launched Jumia in 2012 as a would-be African Amazon, it was optimistic that a rapidly expanding middle class would quickly shift from street markets to shopping online. Four years on, falling sales for sites like Jumia and slower growth from…
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Steffy Argelich is the new face of Lancaster
This week the French leather goods brand announced Spanish model Steffy Argelich as the face of its autumn/winter 2016-2017 collection. Lancaster Paris is the latest brand to sign up this young model, starring her in the label's autumn/winter 2016-2017 campaign. Steffy Argelich rocked her 1970s style for photographer Guy Aroch, who has worked on all…
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Adidas to return mass shoe production to Germany in 2017
By Jörn Poltz ANSBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Adidas will launch mass production of running shoes at a German factory operated largely by robots next year and plans to open a similar plant in the United States next year, the company said on Tuesday. Founded by German cobbler Adi Dassler in 1949, Adidas had closed all…
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Hugo Boss picks financial chief Mark Langer as new CEO
German fashion house Hugo Boss announced Monday that it has chosen chief financial officer Mark Langer to become the new chief executive after the resignation of the former head of the company following a profits fall. Langer, who has been with Hugo Boss for 13 years, will replace Claus-Dietrich Lahrs who stepped down in February…
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Chanel brings glamor back to Cuba in catwalk extravaganza
By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) – French fashion house Chanel brought glamor back to Communist-ruled Cuba on Tuesday in a runway show on one of Havana's main boulevards, featuring glittering gowns, tulle cocktail dresses and models in Panama hats smoking cigars. Chanel is the first major fashion house to hold a runway show in Cuba,…
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Luxury market growth to reach low point in 2016: Bain
By Astrid Wendlandt and Pascale Denis VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) – Growth in the more than 250 billion euro ($285 billion) personal luxury goods market should pick up next year, boosted by resurgent demand in the United States and China, after hitting a trough in 2016, consultancy Bain & Co predicted. Bain, whose industry outlook is…
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Balmain opens first US flagship
Balmain is opening a New York flagship store — its first in the US, confirming the luxury Parisian fashion house's growing popularity stateside.
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Gucci to unify men’s and women’s collections from 2017
Italian luxury brand Gucci announced on Tuesday it will unify its women's and men's collections starting from next year in an effort to simplify the designer's business. The first show combining womenswear and menswear will be at Gucci's new Milan headquarters, President and Chief Executive Marco Bizzarri said in a company statement. It did not…
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Arkansas sheriff digs into clothing budget for fashion statement
By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An Arkansas sheriff with a similar name to a Wild West legend has spent about half of his office’s clothing budget to supply deputies in his mostly urban county with fashionable cowboy hats to top off their uniforms. Sheriff Doc Holladay of Pulaski County, which contains the…