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.
Fast-rising fashion star Eli Russell Linnetz will present his brand’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection during the Florentine trade fair with a special event on June 14.
Linnetz, a Venice Beach, Calif. native, launched ERL in 2020, quickly gaining traction for his patchwork denim, vibrant hoodies and colourful knits. Today, the brand is sold at over 220 stockists globally, including Net-a-Porter and Dover Street Market.
Last year, ERL was awarded LVMH’s Karl Lagerfeld Prize and debuted a tie-up with Dior, with Linnetz guest designing the French house’s Spring 2023 menswear collection alongside artistic director Kim Jones.
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Kim Jones’ ERL Collection: Don’t Call It a Collaboration
The Dior Men artistic director invited Venice, California-based designer Eli Russell Linnetz to build a capsule nostalgic for the early 1990s, but helped him merchandise it for today.
Hermes saw Chinese buyers snap up its luxury products as the Kelly bag maker showed its resilience amid a broader slowdown in demand for the sector.
The group’s flagship Prada brand grew more slowly but remained resilient in the face of a sector-wide slowdown, with retail sales up 7 percent.
The guidance was issued as the French group released first-quarter sales that confirmed forecasts for a slowdown. Weak demand in China and poor performance at flagship Gucci are weighing on the group.
Consumers face less, not more, choice if handbag brands can't scale up to compete with LVMH, argues Andrea Felsted.