Hiut Denim Unites Artisans with Technology to Bring Back Made in Britain

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Hiut Denim Company | Source: hiutdenim.co.uk

CARDIGAN, United Kingdom — Few people immediately think of Wales as having been impacted by the tide of outsourcing that has forced factories across the United States and Europe to shutter. But in the small community of Cardigan, in Mid Wales, the growth of outsourcing and offshoring has been devastating. Once upon a time, Cardigan bustled with Britain’s biggest jeans factory, which produced upwards of 35,000 pairs of jeans per

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Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic?

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Editorial GIF by Reed + Rader | Source: V Magazine

LONDON, United Kingdom — Instagram, Barbour, vinyl records, artisanal butchers, moustaches, and the biography of your potatoes lovingly detailed on chalkboard signs at Whole Foods. What is wrong with this picture? As London-based writer and entrepreneur Russell M Davies puts it, “most of Shoreditch would be wandering around in a leather apron if it could. With pipe and beard and rickets. Every new coffee shop and organic foodery

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Is the Met Ball Becoming Fashion’s Biggest PR Platform?

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Beyonce Knowles makes her way up the Met Ball red carpet | Source: AP

NEW YORK, United States — Last night, and for the first time ever, red carpet arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala were live-streamed to the public on Vogue.com, Amazon.com and the museum’s own website, while viewers from across the globe were invited to participate via social media. As celebrities arrived at appointed times for their red-carpet rendez-vous, fashion watchers, bloggers and end

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The Bottom Line | Pinterest vs. Facebook

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Pinterest vs Facebook | Source: Bottica.com

LONDON, United Kingdom — It’s now common knowledge that social curation site Pinterest — which attracted its first 10 million users faster than any other website in history — is the fastest growing social platform today, with 18.7 million users as of March, according to comScore. But what does this mean for social giant Facebook, fashion businesses and the bottom line? According to research provided exclusively to BoF, it turns out

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Market Pulse | No Sparkle Despite Shiny Results

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Savigny Luxury Index April 2012 | Source: Savigny Partners

LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (SLI) continued its sluggish performance this month, ending almost flat (SLI components actually fell an average of nearly 2 percent when expressed in local currency) compared to a drop of 0.7 percent in the benchmark MSCI World Index (MSCI).  Newsflow was good overall, with strong results and two successful IPOs, but dampened somewhat by concerns about growth prospects. Big news

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