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Gant launches footwear collaboration with Diemme

American sportswear brand Gant has teamed up with Italian footwear maker Diemme on a limited-edition collection of hiking boots for autumn/winter 2020 to mark the brand’s first-ever collaboration. Produced in Diemme’s artisan factory, located an hour north of Venice, the boots have been designed to feature subtle design elements from Gant’s...

Business

Lacoste owner Maus Frères International rebrands to MF Brands Group

Maus Frères International, the owner of brands Lacoste, Gant, Aigle, Tecnifibre and, as of 2019, The Kooples, has changed its name to MF Brands Group as part of a wider transformation strategy. The company said the new name aims to draw a link between its historic routes (Maus Frères, subsequently MF) and its ambition to become a leading...

Fashion

Gant announces new sustainability goals, launches rental service

Gant has announced it is bolstering its sustainable credentials with a number of new environmental targets, the launch of a rental service, and The 7 Rules by Gant - an initiative to educate consumers on how to better care for their clothes. For 2020, the Swedish fashion brand has said nearly 80 percent of its collection will be sustainably...

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Gant appoints Patrik Söderström as new CEO

Patrik Söderström has been appointed as the new CEO of Gant, taking over from Brian Grevy on 1 February 2020. Patrik joined Gant in 2016 as executive vice president global markets. Prior to that, he worked as a Northern European managing director at Italian eyewear company Luxottica and spent eight years in various roles at US sportswear brand...

Fashion

Rotterdam School of Management's NFS hosting seminar with Gant

Founded by Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management students, the New Fashion Society aims to bridge the gap between the fashion world and university students. NFS provides a platform where business possibilities in fashion are presented and organizes events where industry professionals and students can engage in meaningful dialogue....

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Gant appoints executive vice president global brand

Gant has announced the appointment of Eleonore Säll as executive vice president global brand, a move that the brand said aims to “increase the focus on consumer insights and innovative marketing activities to strengthen the lifestyle brand.” In her new role, Säll has been tasked with improving the unified consumer insights by evaluating long-and...

Business

Lacoste owner Maus Frères in talks to buy The Kooples

Swiss retail group Maus Frères is in exclusive talks to acquire French label The Kooples, according to multiple sources including WWD and FashionNetwork. The group, which owns Lacoste, Gant and Aigle, is expected to add the brand to its portfolio by the end of the first half of 2019. In the last financial year, the The Kooples - known for its...

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Karen Vogele named Vice President of Product & Design at Gant

Gant has promoted Karen Vogele from the position of Product Creation Director to Vice President of Product & Design. In her new role, she will be responsible for Gant’s global product offering and for ensuring that the brand answers to consumer trends. Vogele joined the company in 2014 as Global Program Management Officer, a role within the IT...

Fashion

Gant launches suits that can go in the washing machine

Gant wants you to say goodbye to the constant visits to the dry cleaner. The brand has announced a capsule collection in which all suits can go in the washing machine. Featuring both men’s and women’s styles, the capsule is to be available at Gant’s stores and website later this month, with prices ranging between 179 euros (208 dollars) and 399...

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Gant appoints Thomas Dunaker as its new CFO

Gant AB has announced the appointment of Thomas Dunaker as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. The company said, Dunaker has been appointed from within and will report to CEO Brian Grevy. He succeeds Pär Christiansen who left the company in June this year. “With his result and service-oriented mindset, extensive...

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Video: Gant Beacons Project

Introducing Gant Beacons Project. Right now there’s 165 million tons of plastic floating around in our oceans. Plastic that we can use to make shirts with Tech Prep™. Source: Gant, YouTube.

Fashion

Gant teams up with Waterkeeper Alliance

Fashion and lifestyle brand Gant is partnering with Waterkeeper Alliance, the largest and fastest-growing non-profit focusing solely on clean water, to support the charity in its mission to reduce industrial and agricultural waste and sewage being discharged into waterways around the world. Gant will support the organisation through an annual...