Sportswear giant Adidas is looking to replicate a sports stadium experience within its flagships around the world with its new “HomeCourt” retail concept store. Premiering in its largest store, the Adidas Brand Centre in Beijing, China, the concept celebrates the sportswear brands“authentic sports heritage”, while providing customers with a “unique and interactive retail experience”. The “HomeCourt” will be rolled out across 24 other locations this year including new stores due to open in Rio

It is during the semi-annual fashion weeks held in New York, London, Milan and Paris that the upcoming fashion trends are determined. Now the question is, what will consumers be putting on their wish lists for the fall to come? FashionUnited lists the 5 biggest fashion trends to emerge during Milan Fashion Week. #1 Animal Print Sweaters Foxes, swans and squirrels. This season, Milan designers took their inspiration from the animal kingdom in a veiled attempt to kicked-start the latest sweater

MARNI Urban folk is a common theme at Marni, who in the final days of Milan Fashion Week showed a sport luxe collection. Two-tone neoprene dresses and separates opened the show, but the sporty shapes were new and slighty exaggerated, making for a fresh silhouette. Marni is not a house that shies away from bold colour or prints, and there were flashes of crimson, tie-dye and organic geometrics amongst the more neutral palette. Chunky hardware added a utility edge and there was plenty of luxe with

Abercrombie & Fitch reported unaudited fourth quarter and fiscal 2013 results with comparable sales by brand, including direct to consumer sales, decreased 10 percent for Abercrombie & Fitch, 5 percent for Abercrombie kids, and 14 percent for Hollister Co respectively. Net sales for the fifty-two week period ended February 2, 2013 were approximately 63 million dollars less than net sales for the reported fifty-three week period ended February 2, 2013. Net sales by brand for the fiscal

Vuitton Goes to South Africa–Launching a new campaign titled the “Spirit of Travel”, Louis Vuitton features wild animals alongside high fashion with these advertisements shot by Peter Lindbergh of 2b Management. British models Karen Elson and Edie Campbell (who also appears in Louis Vuitton’s spring ads) pose in South Africa for a series of sunny images. Carine Roitfeld styled the campaign images which were not manipulated by the way–Karen and Edie interacted with each of the animals shown in th

Milan Fashion Week has officially ended, but before we say ciao, we're looking back at more of our favorite looks from the collections. See Dolce & Gabbana's bold reds, Marni's pattern mixing, Tod's epic hats, and more. Tod's Emilio Pucci Giorgio Armani MSGM Bottega Venneta Marni Sportmax Dolce & Gabbana Salvatore Ferragamo Roberto Cavalli Stella Jean Source: Glamour.

Brace yourself, ladies, because according to meteorologists, a huge chunk of the country will be experiencing yet another polar vortex (or, uh, really really big snowstorm) later this week. How can this be? It's almost March, for goodness sake! Sigh. If you're looking for a little bit of a morale booster to get you through the last few weeks of winter, why not try a fluffy, fuzzy pastel-y sweater. It's a super-soft, ultra-warm, and springlike transition piece that will take you right through t

Quick check of the weather outside and—yup—still pretty damn cold. While we shiver and wait for spring to finally make an appearance, at least we can continue playing with all the layering combinations possible. Hey, if anything, that's a consolation, right? So let's revisit the streets of Milan Fashion Week for some devastatingly chic ideas to pile on the fashion and stay warm. Obviously recent style icon of the week and front-row fixture Miroslava Duma has a lockdown on the layering thing

Here's a straight-off-the-runway fall 2014 trend that we can definitely co-opt for our real-life wardrobes. Check out these two looks from Gucci's Milan Fashion Week show yesterday—and then let's all go pull our faded blue jeans out of our closets, shall we? Because it looks like jeans are back in high fashion. Gucci showed its new ankle-length, washed and faded, slightly-tapered indigo jeans in two combos—with an ashy-blue double-breasted peacoat: And, again, with an OTT super-furry lig

For Autumn/Winter 2014, Turkish designer Bora Aksu was inspired by his mother, her life as a teenager at board school, and used the letters she wrote to friends and her drawings as the starting point for his collection. It was romantic, feminine, with a hint of nostalgia with the models strutting down the catwalk with ribboned plaits to showcase the schoolgirl within a 50s uniform shape of lace knee-length skirts, dainty jackets, peter pan collars and woven knits. There was also a lightnes