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CPHFW 20 years on: A deep dive into its enduring 'cool girl' image

Away from the glaring spotlights of Milan and Paris, global fashion weeks have been struggling to balance relevance, designer support, and audience stability. While some locations are introducing new strategies as part of concerted efforts to commercialise and democratise, others are rebuilding globalised frameworks after extended disruption. In...

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Your clothes are shedding microfibres - and regulators are coming

Every time you wash a garment, it sheds hundreds of thousands of tiny fibres into the water system, most invisible to the naked eye. Multiply that by the 132 million tonnes of textiles produced globally each year, and the picture changes dramatically. Earth Action’s new report, From Shedding to Solutions, provides the first system-level...

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From CIO to COO to CEO: What New Look’s leadership change says about its new era

For much of the past two years, New Look has frequently appeared in headlines for the wrong reasons. It closed its Irish business, accelerated UK store closures, cut head office jobs, secured a 30 million pound cash injection to fund digital transformation and was reportedly exploring strategic options after unsolicited takeover approaches. Fast...

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20 years of Marcel Ostertag: “The most creative collection is useless without business acumen”

Marcel Ostertag is celebrating his 20th anniversary as a fashion designer this year, drawing a line under one chapter. After almost a decade at Berlin Fashion Week, he will no longer be holding a runway show there. Instead, he kicked off his anniversary series in Munich and is already looking ahead to Paris, where he will present for the first...