Are designers less valuable than we think?
A pretty provocative paper comes from a group of INSEAD professors, albeit with a less-than-pretty title: PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS OF OUTWARD PERSONNEL MOBILITY IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES. It looks at the...
View ArticleFashion Blogger Snags next H&M Collaboration
After the much-publicised sell-out success of their pre-xmas collaboration with Lanvin, high street megalith H&M has announced their next partner: Elin Kling, a Swedish fashion blogger and stylist....
View ArticleThe rise of polyester
At this point, the fact that cotton prices are soaring is a truism, and that what this means in fashion terms is that the higher prices for raw materials will become higher prices for retail, but...
View ArticleLuxury’s missing ingredient
It’s that time of year when fall ad campaign break, and magazines occasionally double as doorstops. Judging by the size of US Vogue, along with yesterday’s Hermes announcement that operating profit was...
View ArticleMore Lanvin laughs
After the runaway viral success of his YouTube video for the Lanvin autumn/winter collection, designer Alber Elbaz has lent his hand to Claridge's christmas cheer by creating their holiday tree. I feel...
View ArticleHoliday cheer
This is my last post of the year. Though I have been hanging on in terror that some perverse power play on the part of Dior will cause them to announce their designer WHEN EVERYONE IS AWAY FROM THEIR...
View ArticleThinking small
Before his pre-fall collection for Lanvin today designer Alber Elbaz told a funny story. He was in NYC a few months ago for a meeting about the new Lanvin Men’s store, he said, and took a cab ride down...
View ArticleCracking the commercial code
Any regular reader of this blog knows that my opinion of fashion film shorts is not exactly sky-high; of all the ones produced by this industry recently as it discovered the joys of YouTube and its...
View ArticlePuma CEO: Fake is fabulous!
Sorry – that title is a bit misleading. I am not suggesting Jochen Zeitz, the chief exec of PPR-owned sportswear brand Puma, is in favour of counterfeiting. Rather, I was struck by comments he made as...
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H&M rocks Paris Fashion Week
Helen Hunt wearing an H&M gown on the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday On Wednesday H&M is having its first-ever Paris fashion show – in the Musée Rodin, the haute art ex-venue of Tom Ford’s...
View ArticleWomen on top: Lanvin and YSL get female CEOs
Finally, some female executives at fashion brands. Yesterday Kering named Francesca Ballettini CEO of Yves Saint Laurent and then Lanvin announced Michèle Huiban was being promoted to CEO from the...
View ArticleLanvin scores in the fashion football game
It’s all about football for men’s luxury brands. What else to make of the fact that Lanvin just became the first French brand to joined the ranks of Paul Smith (Manchester United), Armani (Chelsea,...
View ArticleHollywood v Beijing celebs: who’s got the power?
This Sunday is the Oscars, which as we all know is the be-all and end-all of red carpet dressing, and may explain the notable lack of Hollywood celebrities at Paris Fashion Week thus far: they’re all...
View ArticleWho’s got the power?
The Vanity Fair New Establishment 100 list has just been unveiled, and its criteria for picking “the 100 most influential” are increasingly impenetrable. Read more
View ArticleLanvin and H&M make collection video, raise expectations (and expenses)
What's a brand to do when it has a good idea and then everyone copies it? Accessorise, of course! So seems the conclusion, of H&M, which is embarking on a new project with Lanvin, Today, for...
View ArticleDoes H&M have Designs on the High End?
Last night I went to the Pierre hotel in New York to see a Lanvin loves H&M fashion show. They - by which I mean H&M, since this was clearly their gig to fund, though it had been given a Lanvin...
View ArticleAre designers less valuable than we think?
A pretty provocative paper comes from a group of INSEAD professors, albeit with a less-than-pretty title: PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS OF OUTWARD PERSONNEL MOBILITY IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES. It looks at the...
View ArticleFashion Blogger Snags next H&M Collaboration
After the much-publicised sell-out success of their pre-xmas collaboration with Lanvin, high street megalith H&M has announced their next partner: Elin Kling, a Swedish fashion blogger and stylist....
View ArticleThe rise of polyester
At this point, the fact that cotton prices are soaring is a truism, and that what this means in fashion terms is that the higher prices for raw materials will become higher prices for retail, but...
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