Tag: Fashion
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The return of manufacturing: Let’s make it in Britain
UK manufacturing skills a lure for luxury brands The last fifteen years have seen a dramatic fall in UK manufacturing as emerging markets have become more competitive. Oxford Economics estimate that the value of UK fashion manufacturing has fallen by two-thirds since 1995. More recently, however, some companies have started to see the benefits of…
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Speaking about luxury with Pascal Morabito – creator Morabito
Artist-designer, explorer, dreamer, collector, inventor and an inspiring personality, Pascal Morabito (b. 3 May 1945), is an inexhaustible source of ideas in areas such as jewelery, watches, perfumes, cosmetics, leather goods, fashion, design, sculpture, architecture, furnishing, hospitality, wellness and luxury lifestyle. He was 19 or 20 years old when he met César, Dali, Arman thanks…
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London Fashion Week: Digital Innovation 2012
This London Fashion Week, starting 17th February 2012, the British Fashion Counci (BFC) continues to unite fashion and digital innovation, encouraging engagement with this global fashion showcase through social media, live streaming and pioneering new technologies. The digital schedule is the strongest yet: 44 shows will be live streamed – 22 from the The Courtyard…
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Most Valuable Luxury Brands in 2012
World’s Top 100 Most Valuable Luxury Brands World Luxury Association’s official report on 2012 shows that China has become the world’s largest consumer of luxury goods. The report predicts: With the phenomenon of RMB appreciation and depreciation of the Euro and the number of Chinese traveling to Europe in 2012, total consumption of luxury goods…
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Recycling to an art form? Lexus Fashion Workshop
The Lexus Fashion Workshop with Four Original Designs Made of Recyclable Lexus CT Hybrid Parts Lexus challenged four designers to turn one of the most progressive Lexus hybrid vehicles into fashion pieces, inspiring artists and people to recycle and to see things differently. 2,000 individual parts of a completely dismantled Lexus CT hybrid (a vehicle…