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How shoppers will see out the rest of 2020

It has been just over six months since the start of global lockdowns. A battered and bruised retail industry has been slow to recalibrate and recover from the grip of Covid-19. Even after physical retailers reopened this past June in the UK, others in the US are only just now returning to pre-pandemic business hours. Many global heavyweights,...

21 Sep 2020

Fashion

Balenciaga to delay first haute couture collection to July 2021

Balenciaga is to delay its first foray into haute couture until July 2020, according to the brand’s creative director Demna Gvasalia. In an interview with WWD the designer said the pandemic upended the company’s fashion calendar forcing the planned show for January 2021 to be put forward to next July. Gvasalia further confirmed Balenciaga...

21 Sep 2020

Fashion

Is Saint Laurent to unveil its latest menswear collection atop Paris' Sacré Coeur?

At the end of April French fashion house Saint Laurent said it would cancel its Paris Fashion Week ready-to-wear show in September, setting a precedent for other luxury brands to diverge from the rigid global fashion calendar. Instead, the company said it would create its own schedule and set its own pace. September 9th looks to be the brand’s...

8 Sep 2020

Fashion

Fashion Month: What to expect from the SS21 season

With less than a week to go for the spring/summer 2021 season to kick off in New York, FashionUnited is running through all the different formats, the schedules, and who is missing, from what many people are describing as the “lost season” due to Covid-19. Over the past few months, fashion editors and buyers have become accustomed to digital...

8 Sep 2020

Fashion

Without Saint Laurent or Alexander McQueen: this will be Paris Fashion Week SS21

The French Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the organization responsible for ensuring the fashion sector in the French country and for the celebration of their respective Fashion and Haute Couture Weeks, has already announced which will be the official show calendar for the next Paris Fashion Week. Catwalk that will serve for the...

7 Sep 2020

Fashion

Guest designers at New York and Paris fashion weeks are forced to show closer to home

Valentino, traditionally one of the leading names of Paris fashion week, has canceled its Paris show, choosing instead to show in its home country during Milan Fashion Week. Covid-19 has made traveling difficult for its Rome-based team and led the company to reconsider where to present its new season collection. Valentino CEO Jacopo Venturini...

2 Sep 2020

Fashion

Valentino to pass on Paris fashion week

Italian fashion house Valentino announced Tuesday it is giving the catwalks of Paris a skip this month because of the coronavirus pandemic, instead presenting its new spring and summer collection in Milan. For years a regular at the Paris Fashion Week, the designer brand cited the "unprecedented times" brought about by the coronavirus pandemic...

2 Sep 2020

Fashion

AMI TO PRESENT ITS SS21 COLLECTION AT PARIS WOMEN'S FASHION WEEK

AMI will unveil its Spring-Summer 21 collection during the next Paris Women’s Fashion Week. The Parisian brand, renowned for its relaxed, authentic and friendly approach to fashion, will host a co-ed show featuring looks from its men’s and women’s collections. This will be the first time AMI goes down the runway as part of the women’s calendar....

1 Sep 2020

Fashion

Ami confirms it will hold a physical show at Paris Fashion Week

French fashion brand, Ami founded by Alexandre Mattiussi, has confirmed that it will present its spring/summer 2021 collection at Paris Women’s Fashion Week with a physical catwalk show. The Parisian brand, renowned for its relaxed, authentic and friendly approach to fashion, will host a co-ed show featuring looks from its men’s and women’s...

1 Sep 2020

Fashion

Mind the gap: International fashion weeks are marred by sparse schedules

A sparse New York Fashion Week calendar was revealed on Thursday, with the number of designers showing cut in half. Only 50 masked guests will be allowed to attend outdoor presentations, and then only after passing a temperature check. Indoor events will take place without audiences and instead livestreamed on the CFDA’s Runway360, its new...

28 Aug 2020

Fashion

Latest designer collection showcases and fashion week developments

As the first digital Fashion Weeks have drawn to a close, questions remain over whether virtual showcases will wholly replace the classic runway format and what will be the next steps for the industry in revitalising the fashion system post-covid. Digital vs Physical The biggest winners of the virtual fashion weeks, it seems, were the real-life...

31 Jul 2020

Fashion

Pros weigh in on digital fashion week: "Runways can't reopen soon enough"

Video may have killed the radio star, but on the reaction to the first ever digital Paris fashion week, the queens of the catwalk can breathe easy. Forced online for the first time in its history by the coronavirus pandemic, brands both in haute couture and the Paris men's fashion week presented videos of their collections instead. While some...

10 Jul 2020