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Fans in awe as BLACKPINK’s Jisoo becomes the first musician to front London’s luxury fashion house

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Self-Portrait debuted a new campaign on March 6, 2024, to announce their new collaboration with Jisoo. The BLACKPINK vocalist models Self-Portrait’s Spring-Summer 2024 Collection in the images taken by Yoon Ji Yong in Seoul, South Korea. The London-based fashion label was founded by Malaysian designer Han Chong in 2013. As the first musician and current pop sensation, the members of BLACKPINK debuted in the label’s Spring 2024 campaign, which featured images of Jisoo adorned with their newest collection. The news and images delighted fans as they dominated the internet with praises for the idol.Fans chime in, “A BRAND EVEN…Continue Reading

Meet the young Chinese talents making a splash in Paris

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Sign up to receive the Vogue Business newsletter for the latest luxury news and insights, plus exclusive membership discounts. This season, the Paris Fashion Week schedule gave a platform to an unprecedented number of young Chinese female designers. Each vastly different — from provocative to quiet luxury — they represent the range of brands coming out of China today. Now, they are battling to gain global recognition in the face of post-Covid challenges and the industry’s testing climate. Zhong Zixin’s eponymous brand debuted with a polished presentation of ornate designs presented by Vogue China and Hong Kong-based conglomerate Chow Tai…Continue Reading

How the Academy Awards became ‘the biggest international fashion show free-for-all’

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Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén, University of Southern California, The Conversation The dress actress Lupita Nyong’o wore to the 86th Academy Awards in 2014 became a story in and of itself. Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage via Getty Images The Oscars are no longer just a celebration of movies. They’ve also become a fashion show, with fans, designers and the media celebrating and criticizing Hollywood celebrities as they stroll, pause and pose on the red carpet of the annual awards ceremony. A sharp look can be a story in and of itself. Take actress Lupita Nyong’o. After she wore a powder blue Prada dress to…Continue Reading

The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit

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For example, neither the American company ThredUp nor its luxury cousin The RealReal are profitable, disappointing investors and dragging share prices below their IPOs. In 2022, less than two years after going public, the American peer-to-peer resale site Poshmark was acquired by a Korean tech company for $1.2bn (£950m), one-sixth of its IPO valuation. While the service is still available to American shoppers and sellers, the company no longer operates in the UK market. The Lithuanian peer-to-peer fashion resale start-up Vinted has taken over in the UK, posting a pre-tax loss of €47.1m ($51m; £40.3m) in 2022. The British second-hand…Continue Reading

Remembering Iris Apfel’s Full Life in Full Looks

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Iris Apfel, the OG geriatric fashion inspiration and influencer who died on Friday at age 102, was not an advocate of minimalism. She did not have much of a truck with stealth wealth or quiet luxury or the old axiom that elegance is refusal. She was not very interested in the tyranny of good taste. Where’s the fun in that? She believed, rather, in the virtues of muchness, of giving free rein to your inner extremism and letting your fashion freak flag fly. Above all, she believed in the power of personal style, which she saw as another term for…Continue Reading

Hidden hero inspires winning fashion project

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The incredible life of a woman described as Nigeria’s first feminist has been the inspiration behind an award-winning research project by a Northumbria University student. Final year Fashion Design and Marketing student Dede Arisekola was recently named winner of the 2024 British Fashion Council and British Library student research competition, held this year in collaboration with Priya Ahluwalia, founder and Creative director of Ahluwalia. Multi-award winning label Ahluwalia was launched in 2018 by Priya Ahluwalia. The label combines elements from the designer’s dual Indian-Nigerian heritage and London roots. It explores the potential of vintage and surplus clothing by giving existing…Continue Reading