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Fashion brands get behind International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day on March 8 is an annual global awareness event that places a spotlight on women’s rights and gender equality, and fashion retailers and ready-to-wear, accessory and jewellery brands are rallying around to give back to organisations that support girls, women and promote gender equality. 12 brands that are celebrating...

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International Women's Day: 6 women in fashion share advice

This Sunday, March 8 is International Women’s Day and to toast all the amazing women out there, FashionUnited has gathered valuable advice from 6 women working in fashion. From learning to succeed by venturing out of one’s comfort zone to how to juggle motherhood while running a budding label, read on to get inspired by these leading ladies...

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Time to stop baring all in the name of female empowerment

With the glare of #metoo still burning our eyes, and so much evidence indicating that abuse of power in Hollywood, in media and fashion photography fueled the images we consumed for decades, women can only deduce that they have been reared on a daily manna of misogyny. Our self-view, cultivated but malformed, and held captive by systematic male...