Italian luxury brand Moncler rolled out today a new collection designed in collaboration with globally influential streetwear designer and Japanese hip hop DJ Hiroshi Fujiwara."I wanted to create a new standard, delivering the message that Moncler loves the mountain, which is where the story started," said Fujiwara about the 7 Moncler Fragment Hiroshi Fujiwara collection. This message is...

Global luxury group Kering has announced a dedicated biodiversity strategy with a series of new targets in order to achieve a 'net positive' impact on biodiversity by 2025.Aligned with its long-term commitment to sustainability, the group’s new biodiversity strategy outlines steps to not only minimize biodiversity loss across its global supply chains but also to support nature and create net...

Family affairs are known to be a tradition amongst Italian fashion brands. The Missoni's, the Fendi's, the Ferragamo's and the Castiglioni's, are just a few of the renown names that come to mind when thinking of the fashion empires that keep it in the family. One of these is Aliita, the jewellery brand established by Venezuelan-born and Milan-based designer Cynthia Vilchez Castiglioni with the...

Loewe has released its limited-edition Divine collection, honouring drag queen and actor Divine. “[Divine] was absolutely out of the ordinary. He lived an intense life as a man, performer, character and as a body. For me, it is the embodiment of the principle of self-determination,” explained Jonathan Anderson, creative director of the house.The collection consists primarily of three t-shirts...

H&M has announced a collaboration with Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI for a summer menswear collection. The CHIMI x H&M collection, which became exclusively available on the H&M website earlier this month, marks CHIMI’s first venture into menswear, after gaining success among the Insta-generation for their “inclusive, fun, progressive” sunglasses designs, in the words of Creative Director...

The new three-week long fundraising project denounces white queer racism and black queer antagonism through photography, literature and film.  Jamaican-born creative Jordan Anderson has long felt concern for the worryingly stagnant direction of the fashion and arts industries and the lack of black LGBTQ+ representation within them, hence deciding to take matters into his own hands. “My Queer...

If there is one thing 2020 has taught us so far is that the show must go on. Even within the fashion industry, months of lockdown and uncertainty haven’t stopped designers and creatives alike to share their work and talent with the world. That's exactly why, on a sunny June afternoon, Glenn Martens gave me a personal preview of his latest SS21 collection...

A coalition of more than 400 Black editors, stylists, models and executives is set to address systematic racism and discrimination within the fashion and beauty industries when it launches next month.Co-founded by Teen Vogue Editor-In-Chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner and publicist Sandrine Charles, the Black in Fashion Coalition wants to concentrate industry efforts to fight racism through...

The misconception that usage of cosmetics was exclusively aimed at females started circulating in the 19th century.    As a matter of fact, in 3,000 B.C, Egyptians of both genders would wear makeup such as kohl and red ochre to enhance their features. In ancient Roman and Greek culture, cosmetics and perfumes were used by men and women to mask...

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode announced in an official statement yesterday, that Paris Fashion Week will take place in a physical format later this year. “The Haute Couture and Fashion Federation confirms the holding of Paris Fashion Week® for Women's Fashion. It will take place from Monday 28 September to Tuesday 6 October...

In Nowfashion's newly-minted column on scents, self-defined ''perfume-nerd'' and director Maria Host-Ivessich and Italian Master Perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi explores the role of poetics and emotionality in scents.   One could say that what distinguishes your style as well as being a reason for your fame could be your poetic vision. How do you keep...

As lockdown restrictions are slowly being eased across much of the world, many of us will have to adjust to a new lifestyle, one that will include opportunities to experiment and be bold with our clothes’ choices once again. Jewellery, much like many other accessories, plays a large part in this – with pieces inspired by art and design being one of the...

Printed Matter, Inc., the leading NYC-based non-profit artists’ book organization, has announced the launch of I Was In The Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun, a new curated series of Fundraising Editions featuring artists Moyra Davey, Coco Fusco, David Horvitz, Joseph Kosuth and Louise Lawther. The new series comes as a response to the...

After launching her jewellery brand whilst still enrolled at the Paris fashion school, Duperré, French designer Justine Clenquet is now celebrating her first decade in the industry. “It all started when I was 13 years old. I used to collect old jewellery that I would work on and sold at the flea market. I always loved fashion accessories but couldn’t...

Luxury British label Burberry has announced plans to present its Spring/Summer 2021 collection in September of this year. Titled Burberry in Nature, the brand described the event as an "immersive show experience set in the British outdoors” which will be available for all to experience digitally, according to the fashion house. “Now more than ever,...