The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The online movement started last year by beauty founder Sharon Chuter, which urged businesses to disclose how many Black leaders they have in their businesses with the call-to-action #PullUpOrShutUp, will donate funds to founders through a public pitch contest.
The group is raising money for the founders by partnering with established beauty brands, including NYX and Maybelline, to repackage some of their hit products and selling them at Ulta Beauty and the campaign’s site, MakeitBlack.org. The gross profits will benefit founders, who will compete for capital publicly online. The public will be able to vote on the winners.
Designer Carly Mark sparked conversation about what it takes to make it as an emerging designer in New York when she announced she was shutting her ready-to-wear line and moving to London. On Thursday she held her last sample sale.
To stabilise their businesses brands are honing in on what their particular consumer wants to buy, introducing new categories and starting conversations.
That’s the promise of Zellerfeld, a 3D-printing partner to Louis Vuitton and Moncler that’s becoming a platform for emerging designers to easily make and sell footwear of their own.
With a new heavyweight backer in Italian firm Style Capital — which helped Zimmermann secure a billion dollar valuation — the French contemporary womenswear brand has ambitions to go global. But it sits in a competitive and hard-to-crack category.