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Fashion INTERVIEW

Sustainable and vegan fashion with the Director of Corporate Projects, Peta UK

Earlier this month, FashionUnited reported onPVH Corp. banning exotic animal skinsin the collections of all its brands, which include Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein. Around the same time,Uniqlo became the latest brand to ban alpaca woolwhile China seems to be opening their market soon tobeauty brands that don't test on animals.“Studies have...

Sep 29, 2020

Fashion IN DEPTH

Digitizing the fashion value chain: SVP of Digital Ventures, Hatch and Stitch

This month, FashionUnited interviewed Anne-Christine Polet, the SVP of Digital Ventures at PVH Europe’s corporate start-ups, Hatch and Stitch. The ventures combine technology with fashion expertise and commercial thinking to create digital solutions that help brands reinvent their value chain. “What drives us is to digitize what is ‘under the...

Sep 10, 2020

News INTERVIEW

Women in Leadership: Isabel May, Chief Customer Experience Officer & Managing Director at Mytheresa

Last year, the Munich-based online fashion retailer Mytheresa expanded its management team from two to five people. Among these newly appointed leaders is Isabel May, chief customer experience officer & managing director at Mytheresa, and the only woman on the leadership team. As part of the new series "Women in Leadership Positions",...

Aug 28, 2020

Video

Video: Production Coordinator at Coach back to work during pandemic

There are certain jobs in the fashion industry that are not able to transition entirely into remote work such as roles in production. In this video, Renata D’Agrella, Production Coordinator at Coach, vlogs about what it’s like to return to the office while New York City is still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. After months of quarantine,...

Aug 28, 2020

News

Digital skills main driver for employing the under 30

In addition to technical-specialist IT skills, innovative 4.0 management and digital communication, soft skills, i.e. organizational, social and relational and communicative skills, are increasingly being added. The integration, or more correctly the hybridization, between digital skills and transversal skills is an issue of strategic importance...

Aug 17, 2020

Fashion

Working at Timberland: Gabriel Csörgö tells about his role as Timberland District Manager for South Germany/Austria

You are the District Manager at VF Textil- Handels GmbH, responsible for Timberland Stores in southern Germany and Austria. What does your typical working day look like? My main task is to support and encourage the stores under my supervision to realise their business objectives and to meeting the company’s requirements. My working week or...

Jul 9, 2020

News

15 fashion pros offer key advice to younger selves Part 2

The second in a two-part piece for which FashionUnited went behind the wheels of industry to ask a cross-section of fashion’s hard-working professionals what advice they would give their graduating selves or what they wish they’d known back at the launch of their careers. We’ve harvested the wisdom of these experts with international resumes who...

Jun 30, 2020

News

15 fashion pros offer key advice to younger selves Part 1

For this two-part piece, FashionUnited went behind the wheels of industry to ask a cross-section of fashion’s hard-working professionals what advice they would give their graduating selves or what they wish they’d known back at the launch of their careers. We’ve harvested the wisdom of these experts with international resumes who are based all...

Jun 28, 2020

Fashion

Working at Timberland: Isabella Colombo tells about her role as a Global Product Director

If you are one of those people whose career aspirations include working within an exciting, multi-faceted role in a global company and within an international team, then the eco-conscious, lifestyle brand Timberland ticks all those boxes. The brand is part of one of the world’s leading apparel and footwear groups, US based VF Corporation, who...

Jun 22, 2020

Fashion IN DEPTH

The making of PPE: From designers to the frontline Part 2

How are designers and companies able to transition seemingly overnight to produce PPE at such an impactful scale? From LVMH producing hand sanitizer instead of perfume to Brooks Brothers making up to 150,000 surgical masks per day, designers and factories are doing everything they can during this critical time to give back to their communities....

Jun 18, 2020

Fashion IN DEPTH

The making of PPE: From designers to the frontline Part 1

Although the fashion and design industries have been hit hard by the devastating economic impact brought on by Covid-19, they have also been among the first ones to pull together the resources at hand to make immense contributions to the global relief effort. From LVMH producing hand sanitizer instead of perfume to Brooks Brothers making up to...

Jun 18, 2020

News IN DEPTH

The making of PPE: From designers to the frontline Part 1

Although the fashion and design industries have been hit hard by the devastating economic impact brought on by Covid-19, they have also been among the first ones to pull together the resources at hand to make immense contributions to the global relief effort. From LVMH producing hand sanitizer instead of perfume to Brooks Brothers making up to...

Jun 18, 2020