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As if the fast-fashion field isn’t crowded enough with brands like Zara, H&M, and Express, JustFab has decided to be the next label that will attempt to conquer the fast fashion market. The brand, which became known for carrying jewelry, handbags, shoes, and denim at accessible price points, dipped their feet into the apparel pool last year, and will be adding 5,000 stock units to their site, as well as introducing Fabletics for men this year.
In an ever competitive retail field somehow
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She's electrified Milan fashion week with her bold Caribbean-influenced designs, but Stella Jean is not trying to break into Italy's magic circle of exclusive brands, she wants to transform the industry.
The 34-year old, born to a Haitian mother and Italian father, unveiled her Himalayas-themed autumn/winter 2015 collection Wednesday in a fresco-lined hall to riotous applause from international fashionistas and buyers.
Jean's rise to stardom began when she won Vogue Italia's Who's On Nex
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Marc Jacobs, the onetime enfant terrible of fashion, is about to turn 52 (not that you could tell from his stellar physique), and as such, he tells Vogue U.K.'s Suzy Menkes about his disdain for all thing social media and tech.
"I am so appalled by the whole social media thing," Marc said. "I don't get it; it doesn't appeal me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop...I don't want to read a book on a device. I like a book with a hard cover, and text on a piece of paper. I like magazin
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With its frayed denim outfits, Marques Almeida is making a name for itself on the London fashion scene thanks to a sponsorship scheme that has helped half the designers showing here this season.
Portuguese designers Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida have been winning rave reviews for their Nineties grunge-inspired collections since they started the label four years ago.
This season they expanded their repertoire further with a show at the Tate Britain museum on the last day of London F
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Canadian-Taiwanese wonder-kid designer Jason Wu on Friday sent US supermodel Karlie Kloss down the runway in his New York Fashion Week show that encapsulated strength and seduction.
Elegant tailored suits, jackets, coats and trousers were contrasted with body-clinging sheath dresses with cut-out backs, thigh-revealing splits and luxurious fur showcased seduction. "I think with this collection there's something animalistic and very, very sexy," Wu told AFP backstage after the show in a SoHo lo
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Columbia Sportswear Company announced net sales of 677 million dollars for the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of 143.9 million dollars, or 27 percent, compared with net sales of 533.1 million dollars for the fourth quarter of 2013. Full year 2014 net sales increased 415.6 million dollars, or 25 percent, to 2.1 billion dollars and operating income increased 51 percent to 198.8 million dollars, representing operating margin of 9.5 percent compared with operating margin of 7.8 percent in 2013.
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Ever since Olivier Theyskens left Theory the spotlight was shining on what would happen with the label. There was no news of a new creative director announced, and the spotlight quickly faded from Theory as they went about their business as par usual. Well, Theory could only manage to stay out of the spotlight for so long, and as they make their way back into the news headlines and conversations of all those Bloomingdale’s loyallist card fashionistas the brand is now positioned to reinvent itsel
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Photography by Craig McDean for Prada
In Prada’s latest dalliance with conveniently handsome film festival darlings, its latest menswear ad for Spring 2015 has been released starring Ethan Hawke, Ansel Elgort, Jack O’Connell and Miles Teller. Photographed in crisp, seventies-inspired sets in London and New York by Craig McDean, the actors are featured as holding familiar objects in possibly the most unnatural ways possible.
Elgort, who shot to heartthrob status in last year’s The Fault in
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Nine designers including Charlotte Olympia, Nicholas Kirkwood and Jimmy Choo, are collaborating with Disney to celebrate the release of its up-coming film, Cinderella, by recreating the fairy tale star’s iconic glass slipper in their own visions.
Paul Andrew, Alexandre Birman, René Caovilla, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jerome C. Rousseau, and Stuart Weitzman are also participating in the project to created their own interpretation of the famed glass slipper Cinderella accidentally leaves behind whe
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High street fashion chain New Look is upbeat for 2015, despite having suffered a sales drop in Q3 with the unseasonably warm weather.
The company, which saw revenue fall 1.6 percent in the quarter, had a strong Christmas, with sales up 4.1 percent. In numbers, operating profit was up 1.8 percent to 62.8 million pounds.
Like many on the high street, New Look suffered sales with the “unseasonably warm” three months to December 27, but the fast fashion chain is still buoyant after growing m