Articles by Ole Spötter
Tom Ford names Haider Ackermann as Creative Director
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Haider Ackermann takes over creative direction at Tom Ford. The Colombian-born French designer will present his first collection for the US fashion house in March at Paris Fashion Week, Tom Ford announced on Wednesday. He succeeds Peter Hawkings , whose departure from the brand was announced in July. This makes Ackermann the second creative...
Mister Spex launches new own brand, 'Moove'
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The Berlin-based eyewear specialist Mister Spex SE is launching a new own brand for sports glasses. 'Mister Spex Moove' includes sunglasses and prescription glasses for sports use, the omnichannel optician announced on Monday. In addition to three prescription models and four sunglasses, the new brand also offers accessory models that are...
Showroom and online shop: Marc Cain expands into the US
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German clothing retailer Marc Cain is expanding into the US with the opening of its own showroom and online shop in New York's Chelsea district, Manhattan, the brand announced on Thursday. Located on the top floor of the Chelsea Arts Building, where other brands are also housed, it offers an area of 165 square metres. There, the womenswear...
Vogue publisher Condé Nast partners with OpenAI
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Condé Nast has partnered with OpenAI, the US software company behind artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT. The aim of the collaboration is to increase the reach of the content of the US publisher of magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, GQ and The New Yorker, announced Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast, in an internal letter published on...
Walter van Beirendonck becomes Polimoda mentor
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Walter van Beirendonck will once again be a teacher for students. The Belgian fashion designer retired from his position as head of the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp around two years ago, a position he had held since 2007. He is now taking on the role of mentor at Polimoda, the Florentine fashion school...
CIFF: European buyers make their presence known as brands eye expansions
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Last week, Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF) demonstrated the continued relevance of fashion trade shows – physical interaction being crucial. Next to the usual Danish and English attendance, German and Dutch could increasingly be heard among the aisles, reflecting an expanded presence of markets where trade shows are becoming less...
Reference Studios: Berlin Fashion Week strives to be better than London
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Berlin Fashion Week is becoming increasingly international and is already being seen by some visitors as “the new London”. The Berlin PR agency Reference Studios, with its ‘Intervention’ show format, has played a key role in this, persuading well-known names such as Shayne Oliver with his Anonymous Club, GmbH and Lueder to showcase their...
Bogner MD to step down, seeks 'strong partners' to back global growth
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The managing director of German clothing retailer Willy Bogner GmbH, Gerrit Schneider, is set to leave the company as it begins seeking out "strong partners" to continue investing in growth. Schneider is leaving the Munich-based clothing retailer at the end of the year to "take on a new position in another company", later revealed to be kitchen...
Esprit Germany: Operational Activities to be scaled down
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Germany - The Düsseldorf District Court has initiated insolvency proceedings in self-administration for Esprit Europe GmbH, Ratingen, and six other German Esprit group companies. The next steps are to be decided in the coming days. What is clear is that the outlook for employees at the Ratingen headquarters is bleak. Esprit announced that the Dü...
LN-CC Buyer: Someone needs to shake up menswear
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Eshaan Dhingra is a buyer for the British luxury fashion retailer LN-CC in the menswear designer and contemporary sector. In addition to the international fashion weeks, he also travelled to Berlin Fashion Week this season. In this interview, he reveals his favourite labels that showed in the German capital, SS25 trends and why he thinks...