Sacai designer Chitose Abe sees her small but perfect collaboration with Moncler as an intellectual exercise that reflects on the distant future of Remo Ruffini’s skiwear behemoth, writes Tim Blanks.
We expect extraordinary craft from Valentino, Schiaparelli and Sacai. The real challenge is making an emotional connection.
Women designers, from Stella McCartney to Sacai’s Chitose Abe to Tory Burch, brought a sense of hope and purpose to the Spring shows, writes Tim Blanks.
Uncontrollable forces made the fashion industry shift the way it operates this past month, offering a moment to contemplate some bold changes.
After a fashion month where designers embraced contradictions, BoF's editors pick the top ten shows of the season.
The collection had a level of obsessive detail that is, in fact, quite unique in fashion because there is something a little unfathomable about it.
The Paris-based fashion house announced Sacai founder Chitose Abe will be the first of many to take on its haute couture collection, following the exit of the brand’s namesake designer.
Sartorial hybrids have been Abe’s signature for so long, but here she punched through that logjam of seen-it-all-before to create something tough and topical.
The luxury outerwear brand’s innovative marketing model relies on a constant rotation of buzzy talent. BoF spotlights potential future candidates.
A crop of platform-like brand incubators, from New Guards Group and Tomorrow to Dover Street Market Paris, are spinning up new fashion labels for a hype cycle that’s moving faster and faster.
Chitose Abe’s work has a wilful eroticism that you won’t find anywhere else in Japanese fashion and it was this that ultimately gave her latest collection its groove.
Yoshio Kubo, Bed J.W. Ford and Auralee were among a new crop of Japanese menswear designers who took Paris by storm, but the country’s enormous influence over the market runs deep.
Having trained in pattern-cutting at the directional Comme des Garçons, Sacai’s founder and creative director has won a strong following with her fluid, multi-dimensional designs.
The social media platform will effectively ban most weight loss-related content from appearing on its app starting next month, according to a sweeping new set of community guidelines published on its website last week.
A taffeta ball gown with the span of a light aircraft is one of the more magnificent items to go on sale at Christie’s in June as part of an auction of the personal wardrobe of Dame Vivienne Westwood.
The fashion industry’s era of so-called quiet luxury is over and affluent consumers will want bold designs again, the chairman of Valentino has predicted.
Burlon, a former DJ, stylist and PR, founded the Milan-based label as a T-shirt line in 2012, inspired by ‘90s club culture.
The Colombian designer, whose bags have been worn by celebrities and featured on shows like Sex and the City, previously pled guilty to illegally importing millions of dollars of crocodile and snakeskin handbags into the US.
Millennial and Gen-Z respondents were among the most likely to pay a premium for environmental-friendly practices.
Fashion retailer Express Inc has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States and intends to close more than 100 stores, it said on Monday.
Nike Inc. will have eliminated about 740 jobs at its headquarters by late June as part of its multiyear cost-cutting plan.
