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.
Nigerian designer Kenneth Ize and the Karl Lagerfeld brand have launched a capsule collection, available in stores today.
The collection features gender neutral shirts, trousers and jackets in black and white prints, contrasted with blocks of colour. According to Ize, the inspiration behind the collection includes traditional Aso-Oke fabrics from Nigeria.
The collaboration is available online via retailers like Farfetch and Browns and directly on the Karl Lagerfeld website.
“This was such an incredible experience,” Ize said in a press release. “It allowed me to play with the brand’s existing style codes and expand my own approach to design. I hope the public falls in love with the result.”
Ize was a semi finalist for the 2019 LVMH Prize and is the first Black designer to collaborate with the Karl Lagerfeld brand.
Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co are among the brands expanding in Perth, Australia in a bid to tap its mining, oil and gas wealth and newfound status as a travel hub.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Haiti’s sourcing crisis, Brazilian jewellery giant Vivara and Dubai’s Ramadan shopping season.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Supreme’s long-awaited Shanghai flagship opening, India imposes MIP on undervalued imports of synthetic knitted fabric and striking Sri Lankan workers continue to protest.
Imran Amed shares his observations from a trip to the wealthy desert metropolis, home to the most lucrative stores for many of the world’s top fashion brands.