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‘In IM Men, folding, lightness and ease are tools meant to meet the needs of contemporary wanderers and nomads,’ Sen Kawahara, one-third of the designer trio behind the line, tells Angelo Flaccavento on the eve of its runway debut.
There are profound lessons for fashion designers around the world embedded in the life and work of the Japanese innovator, whose death was announced this week, writes Angelo Flaccavento.
His clothes were a multifaceted celebration of life: movement, energy, experience and an infectious joy that was rare in fashion, writes Tim Blanks.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.