Luxury fashion fans are now well accustomed to the eye-watering prices of their favorite brands. In recent years, a classic Chanel handbag has tripled to £8,000, while Hermes’ turbo increases have done nothing to stop its 17 percent increase in sales in the final quarter of 2023. Designer dresses that routinely cost over £3,000 and … Read more
Trends? Fashion designers have dictated a few. But in a company built on an ever-changing style, one of the smartest things you can do is have a style that hardly changes. That’s probably why most designers have a uniform and stick to it as devoutly as a priest. While some enjoy walking and being ambassadors … Read more
Miu Miu embraces the sloppy, chic boy aesthetic for its shoes – Getty This year you’re just as likely to spot the latest It Shoe in the bread section of your local Waitrose as it is lining the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week. Another dad classic just got the high-fashion treatment: distressed boat shoes. Gen … Read more
Milan Milan’s Fall/Winter 2024 shows proved to be exceptionally wearable collections. Milan has never been as adventurous/scandalous as Paris. Bourgeois conformism is in the soul. But after a post-pandemic spending spree (me neither, but the rebound in many major brands suggests a lot of us went on a massive shopping spree), reality has bitten. For … Read more
Launch of the year Prestige: Prada beauty More from WWD Miuccia Prada is one of fashion’s most innovative thinkers, so it’s no surprise that when it came time to launch a beauty line with licensee L’Oréal, her goal was to shake things up. “What does beauty mean today?” was Prada’s starting point, the designer said … Read more
Prada’s traveling Pradasphere exhibition, in its second edition, officially opened in Shanghai at the newly established Start Museum, a warehouse-like private museum located along the city’s West Bund cultural corridor. The exhibition, curated by co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, is organized around a ‘magazzino’, or working warehouse, that documents the brand’s 110 years … Read more
Miu Miu is the most popular brand of 2023, according to data collected by Lyst from 200 million fashion shoppers over the past twelve months, an honor it takes home for the second year in a row. The London-based online shopping platform released its annual fashion report on Wednesday, highlighting the key brands and moments … Read more
Miu Miu is the most popular brand of 2023, according to data collected by Lyst from 200 million fashion shoppers over the past twelve months, an honor it takes home for the second year in a row. The London-based online shopping platform released its annual fashion report on Wednesday, highlighting the key brands and moments … Read more