Articles by FashionUnited
Item of the week: the pastel dress
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What it is: Pastels are a somewhat predictable colour shade for the spring/summer season, yet their prominence on the 2024 runways over this period could not be doubted. The look was not limited to one colour either. Turquoise, baby pink, sky blue, citrus yellow and lavender were just some of the ways in which pastel was adopted, with each of...
Rapidly growing luxury fashion storage company treats garments like fine art
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As designers prepare to present their fall 24 collections next month and the days become longer making us anticipate swapping out our winter woolies for spring weights, those of us living in city apartments might wish that our closet space was a little more accommodating. Or how many times do we open up boxes that we thought were well-sealed...
Evaluating the sustainability efforts of 5 leading denim brands
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Jeans are a mainstay of holiday shopping gift lists but denim has traditionally always been top of the list of the most polluting and wasteful fashion sectors. With over 1 billion pairs of jeans sold annually, in an intensely competitive market, it can be difficult to know where to start as a sustainably-minded shopper. FashionUnited chose five...
Sao Paulo fw24 runway trends: latte dressing, technical fabrics and more
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Sao Paulo Fashion Week is arguably the most important fashion event in Latin America. It has also become known as a prominent forum for diversity and sustainability. In recent seasons, curve models and ‘real’ people have increasingly been seen on the Sao Paulo runways and since 2020, designers have been required to show at least 50% of their...
Fashion and travel; a love story for the ages
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The eye has to travel,” said the former Vogue editor and empress of fashion, Diana Vreeland. In 1966 she famously flew her team to a snowy Japanese mountain range along with fifteen trunks of clothes for five weeks to shoot model Veruschka dressed in fur for the magazine at a rumored cost of 1 million dollars. It was an unprecedented gesture...
SS24 Key runway colors: neutrals, grey and pale blue
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The ready-to-wear spring and summer seasons drop in-store in at least three deliveries between mid-February and mid-May. The most effective way of organizing a floor is by using color to coordinate merchandise. It’s no coincidence that designers tend to use similar colors, as they work with professional color forecasters, who themselves trace...
Detroit retailer offers 10,000 dollar award to sustainable local designer
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Eugenie, an elevated boutique for sustainable fashion located in the West Village neighborhood of Detroit, was founded in 2020 by wife-husband duo Gretchen R Valade and Kevin Steen, the latter also a founder of Rathaus Production company. This month the couple announced that they are combining their fashion and film powers to award Detroit-based...
FIT and Parsons MFA runways during NYFW represent two diverging paths of study
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On successive days during NYFW the two major New York City fashion schools presented their MFA student collections on the official schedule, and were the only schools to do so. Unveiling their graduate collections were fourteen designers from the Fashion Institute of Technology, a public institution and part of the State University of New York,...
Will this New York Fashion Week signal the end of the body positivity movement?
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On the morning of my scheduled Zoom conversation with Lauren Downing Peters whose book Fashion Before Plus-Size; Bodies, Bias and the Birth of an Industry, has just been released, an email arrives in my inbox on how internet searches for Margot Robbie's diet exploded following the debut of Barbie. It seems appropriate as the topic of women’s...
Exploring the enduring legacy of David Bowie's style
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London’s Victoria & Albert museum which hosted the globally acclaimed “David Bowie Is” exhibit in 2013 announced in February that it has acquired more than 80,000 archive items spanning Bowie’s career that will be made open to the public in a custom-built David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts in 2025. As New York City prepared to...