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10 Jan

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’
MILAN – Jan-Jan Van Essche’s fashion must be examined up close to grasp where the designer’s creativity is channeled from. By his own admission, at first sight lots of his soft tailored pieces, deconstructed silhouettes, and handwoven garments look exactly like classical menswear tropes, except they should not only that. “I’m not going to reinvent the wheel; in menswear there are plenty of classic elements you can work around and that communicate very clearly… I attempt to reshape, literally reshape, these items by putting certain subtleties in the development, pleating elements and make them form of more sober, more minimalistic, one could say, even though it’s more like a concentration of an idea,” Van Essche said over Zoom. “I attempt to make them...
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26 Oct

Zara Parent Sells Russian Real Estate; Van Crashes Into

Zara Parent Sells
Zara Parent Sells Zara Parent Sells  Selling Stores: Zara parent company Inditex will sell its business in Russia, after shuttering their doors seven months ago. In a filing with Spanish regulators after market close, Inditex said it has reached an initial agreement with Daher group to take over its stores there. “Daher group has outstanding interests within the retail and real estate industry,” the corporate said in an announcement. “The terms of the transaction, subject to government approval, will enable the preservation of a considerable variety of jobs generated by Inditex Group in Russia, because it includes the transfer of a lot of the lease contracts related to stores.” Financial terms weren't disclosed. Before the locations closed at the beginning of the war in Ukraine,...
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