#womenfashionpower: How influential women have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world

Women Fashion Power – Look at what the woman next to you is saying.   Confidence is very powerful. From Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher, Coco Chanel to Lady Gaga, the clothes women wear have always been a powerful form of self-expression and part of a sophisticated visual language. WOMEN FASHION POWER exhibition opened at Design … Read more

Luxury Miami 2014: The New York Times International Luxury Conference Speaker Lineup announced

The New York Times International Luxury Conference will be held for the first time in the United States December 1-3. More leading figures in the luxury, fashion, art and technology worlds have been added to The New York Times International Luxury Conference speaker lineup. From December 1st to December 3rd 2014, creative directors, luxury executives, … Read more

Copenhagen fashion summit: an event for solutions, but were there any?

Seven reflections from on the ground at the largest gathering on sustainable fashion

Gucci goes sustainable with world’s first “Zero-Deforestation” leather handbags

Gucci for the Green Carpet Challenge bags Gucci, in partnership with Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge, shows how the Italian fashion house can be pro-active on environmental issues, by raising awareness and demonstrating action on the subject of deforestation. The Italian luxury house launches a capsule collection of handbags produced with Rainforest Alliance-certified leather. “Gucci … Read more