China Insight: Can Fashion Brands Return to Growth During the Chinese New Year?

China Insight: Can Fashion Brands Return to Growth During the Chinese New Year?

According to the annual consumption data for 2024 released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, in the past year Chinese consumers’ consumption of nonessential categories such as footwear, clothing, textiles, cosmetics, skin care, gold, silver and jewelry has weakened significantly. Facing this reality, fashion brands are betting on the year-end peak shopping season…

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Anna Sui Fall 2025: A Madcap Mix and Match Take on Modernity

Anna Sui Fall 2025: A Madcap Mix and Match Take on Modernity

An astute student of history and pop culture, Anna Sui turned her eye to the world of the “madcap heiress” from the 1930s for fall 2025. Women who the society pages of the time would rabidly report on, charting both their successes and falls. “These women inherited massive fortunes and spent it all on jewelry,…

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Marina Moscone Fall 2025: An Urban Edge

Marina Moscone Fall 2025: An Urban Edge

Over the last year, designer Marina Moscone has been spending more time at her home in Beirut, Lebanon, where her husband, a doctor, lives full time. Bouncing back and forth between there and New York City, she’s rediscovered a love of the Big Apple’s urban edge. “I kind of missed going out in New York,…

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Eckhaus Latta Fall 2025: Less Is More

Eckhaus Latta Fall 2025: Less Is More

“Anti-fantasy.” That’s what Eckhaus Latta was after for fall 2025, they said after their short-and-sweet, 27-look collection, a marked elevation for design duo Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta. “We want things to feel like you’ll really wear them,” Eckhaus said. “This is not for red carpet, or I’m taking a picture of myself on Instagram.”…

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Italian Entrepreneurs, Fashion Businesspeople Targeted in Scam Scheme

Italian Entrepreneurs, Fashion Businesspeople Targeted in Scam Scheme

MILAN – A pool of high-profile Italian entrepreneurs — including several fashion players, such as Giorgio Armani, Prada Group’s chairman and executive director Patrizio Bertelli and Tod’s Group chairman Diego Della Valle, among others — have been targeted by a gang of scammers, according to media reports. People close to the entrepreneurs have been allegedly…

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Prabal Gurung Fall 2025: Looking for Comfort 

Prabal Gurung Fall 2025: Looking for Comfort 

Prabal Gurung took inspiration from current affairs for his fall 2025 collection, creating a lineup that centered on offering comfort during uncertain times.  “This is me looking at New York and looking at what’s happening right now — the cultural, political and social unrest — and feeling like we don’t know what’s going on,” he…

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