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28 Jun

EDITED EXCLUSIVE: Paco Rabanne Is Revving Up With Makeup,

PARIS — Paco Rabanne is prepared for its close-up, and global expansion on multiple fronts, having synced up its fashion and fragrance businesses. Abbreviating its name to easily Rabanne, the Puig-owned fashion and fragrance home is launching makeup, kicking off a d-to-c intensification with a flagship boutique in Latest York City — and slowly applying its latest visual identity to numerous product lines and retail spaces. Disclosing a bunch of changes and initiatives exclusively to WWD, Puig beauty and fashion president José Manuel Albesa also reported strong business momentum at Paris-based Rabanne, which has been logging 40 percent growth in recent times — and is poised to soon cross the 1 billion euro revenue threshold. “There’s been an elevation of the brand, and...

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27 Jun

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander McQueen Taps Into Candles

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EXCLUSIVE: Alexander McQueen Taps Into Candles

LONDON — The Alexander McQueen brand is branching out. The British fashion home is adding a candle collection to sit down alongside its ready-to-wear, accessories and fragrances. It's a natural and infrequently first step for any brand testing the waters to enter the homeware arena. The candle collection is made up of three scents — Ghost Flower, Pagan Rose and Savage Bloom — taking inspiration from juxtapositioned ideas comparable to “light and darkness, innovation and tradition and strength and fragility,” in line with the brand. Each candle was envisioned by a distinct perfumer, where they were tasked with interpreting the McQueen codes right into a scent, with slight nods to the brand’s runway collections, where storytelling is at its heart. The candles take after...

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27 Jun

Exclusive: Syky Partners with British Fashion Council on Collective Incubator

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Exclusive: Syky Partners with British Fashion Council on Collective Incubator

Luxury digital fashion platform Syky could have just hit the scene in January, but is already aiming to redefine it by joining forces with the British Fashion Council for a recent incubator program, Syky Collective. A Tuesday announcement revealing the inaugural cohort of 10 digital fashion designers merely mentioned the BFC as a mentor, in an inventory that included Jonathan Bottomley, Calvin Klein’s chief marketing officer, Red DAO’s Megan Kaspar, Vogue creative editorial director Mark Guiducci, Frosty creative director Sabine Le Marchand and writer and Metaverse expert Matthew Ball. Nevertheless, the BFC’s involvement goes a bit deeper than that. The council will link its own NewGen program for emerging designers to the Syky Collective with a recent course-sharing agreement, Alice Delahunt,...

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24 Jun

EXCLUSIVE: Rapper Future Is Lanvin Lab’s First Guest Creative

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EXCLUSIVE: Rapper Future Is Lanvin Lab’s First Guest Creative

In the most recent sign of growing complicity between luxury fashion brands and music, Lanvin has tapped Grammy-winning rapper Future for a collaboration spanning ready-to-wear and accessories for ladies and men, WWD has learned. Lanvin plans to release the gathering for winter 2023 retailing, with Future the primary guest creative for its latest Lanvin Lab, conceived to incubate latest ideas and ideas for the French house alongside its foremost product lines. “The collaboration got here about organically, as Future has recently shown a real interest in Lanvin,” Siddhartha Shukla, deputy general manager of Lanvin, disclosed in an exclusive interview. Shukla described Future’s style as “deeply personal and complicated. He possesses a pointy self-awareness and exercises precision in his selections — qualities we...

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