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7 Jul

Fashion Brands Give Hotel Guests a Taste of Fashion

Fashion Brands Give Hotel Guests a Taste of Fashion
TIME TO CHECK IN: Travel is as a rule a key ingredient to fashion, and a number of designers are aligning with hotels in other ways. The Los Angeles-based designer Rosetta Getty recently revealed a partnership with the Belmond Group to develop a hotel on Mexico’s Pacific Coast that is anticipated to open in 2025. Last month the Karl Lagerfeld Macau, a luxury resort that the late designer collaborated on prior to his death in 2019, began welcoming guests. And Bulgari showed off its latest luxury hotel in Rome. Lesser-known brands are also tapping into the hospitality sector, too. Why not? Last 12 months direct spending on U.S. travel returned to pre-pandemic levels, reaching $1.2 trillion, in response to the U.S. Travel...
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6 Jun

Tech Forum Eyes the Way forward for Fashion

Tech Forum Eyes the Way forward for Fashion
The WWD Tech Symposium has just added one other speaker. Stefano Rosso, chief executive officer and founding father of D-Cave, has joined the lineup for the virtual and complimentary event, which shall be available on demand from July 3 through Sept. 3. D-Cave is a life-style plan that serves the gaming platform. Rosso is a board member of the OTB Group, which is the parent company of Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor & Rolf, Staff International and Brave Kid. The event’s sessions include “What’s Next for the Fashion Metaverse,” which is a roundtable featuring Sebastien Borget, chief operating officer and cofounder of The Sandbox; Diego Di Tommaso, chief operating officer and cofounder of Over the Reality, and Sam Hamilton, creative director at...
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6 Apr

The Outside View: Cultural Hybridity and the Way forward

The Outside View: Cultural Hybridity and the Way forward
Rapper Pharrell Williams’ arrival as creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s completes the transformation of luxury fashion right into a cultural industry for some. Others see it as a victory of celebrity marketing over creativity. In fact, it's a mixing of the 2, a tacit acknowledgment that it's hybridity driving luxury and fashion forward.  Hybridity is the unexpected clash between dissonant worlds, cultures and imaginations in addition to the reconciliation of tradition and innovation. And that's what allows the industry to stay resolutely creative, alive and anchored in today’s changing and culturally mosaic world. Global brands haven't any alternative but adapt to our less and fewer Western-centric world. Demographically, Chinese and Indian people already represent 40 percent of the world population, white people will...
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