Articles by Herve Dewintre
Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga arrives in physical stores
Aug 5, 2022 - Business
The collaboration between Kanye West and Balenciaga arrives in stores at the Gap as the American brand changes direction. Will the Kanye West effect save Gap? In any case, the American brand has found a jump start. In one year, thanks to a partnership with the superstar, Gap regains some of its luster lost since the late 90s, revolutionizing its...
Esmod to support young Sub-Saharan Africa fashion talent
Mar 3, 2022 - News
The Esmod International group of fashion schools has decided to turn to Sub-Saharan Africa by partnering with French-English audiovisual academy LAFAAAC. The aim of this partnership, supported by the French Embassy in Nigeria, is to accompany a new generation of professionals in their ambition to create a brand and to allow young African talents...
Istituto Marangoni Paris collaborates with Olivier Rousteing
Feb 18, 2022 - News
Fashion school Istituto Marangoni Paris announces in a press release that the establishment will have a ‘privileged’ collaboration with the Balmain house and its artistic director. Opened in 2006, the Parisian establishment of the Istituto Marangoni group (which also has branches in Milan, London and Shanghai) provides the presence of Olivier...
The textile and clothing sector is recovering in Vietnam
Jan 3, 2022 - Business
After an unprecedented wave of layoffs, the sector recovered rapidly in the last quarter by abandoning its "zero-covid" policy. Vietnam, along with Cambodia, Bangladesh and more recently Burma, is a major supplier of clothing and textiles to the European Union (and the Western world in general). Its economy has been one of the best performing in...
Will NFT madness take over fashion too?
Oct 11, 2021 - Business
The world of NFT is all about fashion and luxury: a shared interest. Speculative bubble or justified enthusiasm? 2021 is the year of NFTs, the famous non-fungible tokens that are panicking young and geeky investors by combining cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Sales have exploded in August; speculators are rushing in with glee. A craze favored...
Opinion: who will buy Condé Nast?
Jun 28, 2021 - Business
The wave of layoffs currently sweeping through editorial staff belonging to Condé Nast is officially a classic restructuring measure intended to restore the group's financial health. Health made fragile due to the structural decline in sales of printed magazines and the advertising revenues that accompany these number sales - a decline not met...
Esmod students create projects with Alpaca fiber
Jun 15, 2021 - News
Lighter, warmer, stronger, and more comfortable than sheep's wool, alpaca fiber comes from a very soft animal, in every sense of the word, native to the Andes Mountains: a cousin of the llama. It is a herd animal, a grazer (ideally between 8 and 10 animals on a surface of one hectare), which produces a fiber that is both very fine and hollow,...
Why luxury groups are betting on the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai
Aug 5, 2020 - Fairs
The first cases of Covid-19 were discovered in China, but ironically it is in China that the major fashion and luxury groups will seek their salvation. The reason is quite simple: on the one hand, the recovery has already taken place in China, even if the reality is mixed across the country. Beijing, for example, is at half mast, but Hong Kong...
How Adidas plans to end the global plastic crisis
Jul 17, 2020 - Fashion
Humanity's advances are built around materials that themselves define clearly circumscribed historical periods. The Bronze Age, which succeeded the Stone Age, was an important stage in the evolution of European societies, both social and technological, allowing metallurgy to flourish. The same is true of the Iron Age: by increasing agricultural...
Pricing power: Big luxury brands raise prices during crisis
Jul 3, 2020 - Business
Pricing power: a phenomenon well known to financial analysts and general management. It indicates the practice of a company to increase its prices in periods of economic hardening: it is a question - we understand it easily - to increase its margin to compensate for the fall in sales volumes. Not all companies have this capacity: only those who...