Riga Fashion Week, held from April 7th to 10th, 2025, in the Latvian capital, showcases the resilience of a small European nation's fashion designers who are focusing on the local market. The overall impression left by the collections of Latvian designers at Riga Fashion Week 2025 is one of free expression. This need for creative freedom is...
Apr 14, 2025
For the second edition of Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week (MBBFW), held from March 27-30, the schedule brought together more than 20 designers from Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Moldavia and Italy. After reviewing the shows, we now turn our attention to the Romanian scene, a thriving creative ecosystem. Established labels such as Nissa...
Apr 7, 2025
How does one find beauty – and focus on it – amidst suffering? This is the question Ukrainian Fashion Week once again sought to answer. For the second time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the onset of the war in 2022, the event returned to Kyiv after it made its first comeback as a fashionable beacon of hope in September. Hope remains a...
Feb 19, 2025
The fashion week season in Milan, Paris, London and New York has been ushered in, however, away from the ‘Big 4’, other cities across Europe have been championing their own events, hoping to get a slice of the international stage. There have already been some European cities in which fashion weeks that had first been pitted as “up-and-coming”...
Feb 7, 2025
Paris, Jan 27, 2025 (AFP) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri delivered what industry insiders say might be her last collection for Dior on Monday, on the first day of Paris Haute Couture Week. Models with Mohawk-inspired hairstyles, adorned with feathers woven into their braids, walked the runway in retro draped skirts or short crinolines...
Jan 28, 2025
The first-ever edition of Florida Fashion Week is set to host its debut event at the Four Seasons Resort in Walt Disney World, Orlando on October 25. Created by Nayrouz Olarte and the International Fashion Federation, the event features a fashion expo with two runway shows. The first will showcase collections from emerging designers alongside...
Oct 22, 2024
Ljubljana Fashion Week (LJFW) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and 15th edition, solidifying the Slovenian capital's position as a burgeoning hub for sustainable fashion. The five-day event, held from October 7-11 at the Rog Center, showcased 46 collections, underlining the city's growing influence in the global fashion landscape. A...
Oct 21, 2024
With Fashion Month concluding on October 1st in Paris, focusing on Spring/Summer 2025, it has sparked an immediate buying frenzy in the secondhand market. Fashion Weeks are now more influential than ever, particularly on resale platforms, where fashion enthusiasts rush to find pieces that echo what they’ve admired on the runway. From high-demand...
Oct 3, 2024
Fashion week, while a true showcase for the fashion industry, is a complex strategic operation. Paris Fashion Week kicked off on 23 September, offering experts the chance to take a look behind the scenes of such an event. Recent reports reveal the fundamentals of this industry: the costs are exorbitant, but so are the profitability stakes. So...
Sep 26, 2024
Paris - Paris Fashion Week starts Monday in a swirl of rumours of musical chairs at some of the sector's most fabled brands. Falling profits at the two luxury giants LVMH and Kering have sent a shudder through the industry, fuelling talk of a "Game of Thrones" among top designers. Celine's Hedi Slimane and Simon Porte Jacquemus — the young...
Sep 23, 2024
London, Sept 16, 2024 (AFP) - With a Spring/Summer 2025 collection reinventing the iconic trench coat with a streetwear edge, English designer Daniel Lee brought a breath of fresh air on Monday to fashion giant Burberry, hit by financial troubles. The designer, who has been at the creative helm of Burberry for the past two years, departed from...
Sep 17, 2024
Fashion expert José Teunissen was once quoted stating : "What characterises fashion is its urge to innovate. Every six months, fashion presents itself as a moment where the spirit of time is captured in a moment of absolute beauty." *Source: José Teunissen's chapter 'The universe of fashion' in Artez Press' book 'Fashion and imagination on...
Jan 22, 2024