Tag: country
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Japanese designer scoops top honor at Hyères fashion awards
Japanese designer Wataru Tominaga has won the Première Vision Grand Prize at the 31th edition of the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography.
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OVS’ ‘Arts of Italy’ fashion capsule celebrates Italian masterpieces
Italy's e-commerce site OVS has released a limited edition fashion capsule called “Arts of Italy,” reports Women's Wear Daily. The collection, which was presented on Wednesday at Milan's 18-century Biblioteca Braidense, will celebrate several of the country's cultural treasures. A portion of sales from the new capsule collection will go towards restoring the cultural artifacts…
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Fast fashion to ethical couture: Vietnam’s design evolution
Long a bastion for cheap, fast-fashion manufacturing, a new crop of designers are trying to transform the Made in Vietnam label and save the country's rich ethnic heritage in the process. In the remote hills of Cao Bang, some 300 kilometres north of the capital Hanoi, Vietnamese designer Thao Vu is gleefully dropping swaths of…
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Acid-attack survivor Laxmi becomes face of fashion brand
By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An acid-attack survivor in India has been made a model for a fashion brand, drawing attention to the crime in the country with one of the highest rates of acid violence in the world. Laxmi, who goes by one name, features in an advertising campaign for a…
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Britain to investigate modelling agencies for alleged price fixing
Britain has opened a full investigation into the country’s major modelling agencies to determine whether they fixed the prices they charge for their models, officials said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started an initial investigation in March into “anti-competitive arrangements”, such as whether agencies worked together to set the prices paid by…