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How buyers are navigating digital fashion week

When the first digital only London Fashion Week debuts this week, the entire fashion industry will be closely watching. If all goes well, London will set a precedent for digital showcasing and sellin
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Lyst x Launchmetrics: media's impact on fashion weeks in figures

At a time of worldwide social media usage and lightning fast livestreams a question arises: how do these factors impact the unchanged, traditional fashion weeks, and how is that impact made? Data res
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London fashion week AW20 top takeaways

British style, sustainable collections and Chinese visitors on the slide: here are the takeaways from London Fashion Week, which ended on Tuesday: All fashion weeks under a dark cloud of looming c
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Sinéad Burke on LFW, inclusive fashion, and changing the industry

Despite her tiny stature, Sinead Burke has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of fashion, pushing for designs to become accessible for all. The 29-year-old Irishwoman, just 1.05 metre
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Tommy Hilfiger gives boost to LFW with casting tour de force

Sometimes it takes a guest designer to show the home brigade ‘how it’s done.’ Tommy Hilfger on Monday raised the stakes for British catwalk designers, with a tour de force of models
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Victoria Beckham presents at London Fashion Week

Victoria Beckham made a clarion call for a "gentle rebellion" at London Fashion Week on Sunday with a sophisticated but wearable collection. "I wanted to explore how to honour tradition but challenge
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Extinction Rebellion protests cast a shadow on London Fashion Week

Extinction Rebellion activists on Saturday blocked traffic outside London Fashion Week to protest against the fashion industry's "exploitation" of the environment. Dozens of demonstrators blocked
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London Fashion Week favourite: Richard Quinn

Richard Quinn, the rising star of British design, on Saturday dazzled London fashion week, playing the glamour card with a sumptuous, flower-filled show. A graduate four years ago from London's pr
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Lena Dunham stars in Vivienne Westwood AW20/21 show

British style icon Vivienne Westwood unveiled her latest offerings and American actress Lena Dunham made a catwalk debut as London Fashion Week got underway Friday under the shadow of the novel coron
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LFW AW20: Rixo collaborates with Christian Lacroix

Rixo used its London Fashion Week presentation to unveil a ‘see now, buy now’ collaboration with the House of Christian Lacroix that features reimagining archive couture prints in signatu
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Bosideng, a Chinese outerwear brand, hopes London Fashion Week will bring it prestige

Precisely two years ago Bosideng, a Chinese manufacturer of down jackets, closed its store on London’s South Molton Street and ceased UK operations. At the time the Shanghai-based company cite
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Fashion Insider: What does a DJ do during fashion week?

What would a fashion catwalk show be without music? Each season, fashion designers not only curate a collection of clothing, but they have to consider the venue, backdrop, model casting, styling, and
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Fashion experts discuss Richard Quinn S/S 20 show

Fashion experts at ShowStudio get together to discuss the Richard Quinn Spring / Summer 2020 womenswear show in London that took place in September 2019. The panel discusses Sustainability, empowerme
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LFW SS20: ApuJan ‘A strange thief of time’

London-based Taiwanese designer Apu Jan found inspiration in literature for his spring/summer 2020 collection during London Fashion Week, so much so, that the show notes included a reading list feat
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Fashion careers: Q&A with LFW fashion designer, Sinead Gorey

Hailing from South East London, fashion designer Sinead Gorey is a recent graduate of the London College of Fashion Womenswear course. Her label is a fusion of technical rave wear and tailoring. The
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LFW SS20: Presentation Round-Up

The London Fashion Week spring/summer 2020 schedule was as packed as ever, with more than 60 on-schedule brands taking part, and for some designers the way to stand out from the crowd is to showcase
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LFW SS20: Rixo - Back to the Garden

Fifty years on from the iconic festival, Woodstock, Rixo co-founders Henrietta Rix and Orlagh McCloskey welcomed people ‘Back to the Garden’ for its London Fashion Week spring/summer 2020
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LFW SS20: YCH makes impressive London debut

There has been an influx in Asian brand’s showing at London Fashion Week and this season, Korean brand YCH made its debut with an exploration of how feminism has been “accepted and expres
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Brexit, tariffs wars, and eco-fashion drive strategic change at ‘Big Four Fashion Weeks’

New York – With the four major fashion weeks (New York, London, Milan, Paris) either in full swing or right ended, we review how they’re adjusting to better accommodate to lead on an ever
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Nettles with royal roots hit the London catwalks

Fashion models wearing dresses made from nettles harvested at Prince Charles's country estate in southwest England took to the runway in one of this year's most unusual offerings as London Fashion We
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Burberry, a heritage versus street dilemma

The thing about design, and fashion in particular, is it can never please everyone. Brands cannot be all things to all people. Fashion metamorphoses are tricky To be steeped in heritage one moment, l
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Dresses flow for Beckham, billow for Goddard: London fashion trends

From Victoria Beckham's flowing dresses to Molly Goddard's airy creations in tulle, London Fashion Week, ending Tuesday has rolled out some standout new silhouettes. Goddard's billowing dresses
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A blood-stained London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week found itself tainted with blood, as activists from Extinction Rebellion staged a 'die-in' at the opening of LFW. Five members of the notorious climate activist group glued themsel
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London Fashion Week SS20 - What Not To Miss

On September 13, press, buyers and influencers will descend on London for the bi-annual five-day jam-packed London Fashion Week featuring 66 brands, 74 stores and 170 events as part of the official B
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On|Off names SS20 designers for LFW

On|Off, the innovative talent support platform established in 2002 by Lee Lapthorne, has named five designers who will take part in its on-schedule collaborative showcase during London Fashion Week.
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Anya Hindmarch continues consumer focused LFW

London - Another London Fashion Week, another Anya Hindmarch installation, there has been chubby hearts, a chubby bean bag cloud, and a giant woven tunnel, and for this season, it will be an immersiv
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Canadian fashion to be celebrated at LFW

Toronto Fashion incubator (TFI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and nurturing Canadian fashion designers and creative entrepreneurs, is to host a ‘Celebration of Canadian Des
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London Fashion Week opening door to public

The British Fashion Council has announced that starting from September, London Fashion Week will be the first of the four global fashion weeks to open its doors to the public, with “dedicated e
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LFW: Deborah Lyons on her “warrior woman” for AW19

London-based up-and-coming designer, Deborah Lyons followed up her catwalk on the Eurostar for spring/summer 2019 with a jazz night at the Burlington Arcade during London Fashion Week to showcased he
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LFW: Five Minutes With… Miló Maria

London-based contemporary womenswear label Miló Maria, which launched in the summer of 2017, has become a fixture of the emerging designer market as a brand that fuses menswear tailoring with
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