Anvil Knitwear and Carbonrally.com have teamed up to launch the Fashion Swap Challenge, an interactive online campaign to promote the sustainable practice of trading used clothing among friends. The Fashion Swap Challenge is one of several Anvil Knitwear initiatives to motivate environmental activism in 2010. Anvil is the official apparel partner of Earth Day Network […]
British Online sales were up by a quarter this Christmas as more people surf for bargains. Online retailers put up an aggressive fight against the recession over the Christmas period according to the latest reports. Data provided by Retail Decisions for IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) reveals that Christmas Day sales are up 29 […]
Fast Company magazine named the world’s top businesses for its annual Most Innovative Companies issue. The magazine published an overall Innovation All-star list,selected from past Top 50 honourees. In addition Fast Company ranked the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in 24 sectors. The top three awards in Fashion went to invitation only web destination Gilt […]
Animal rights organization Peta UK has teamed up with London-based fashion label Black Score to create a limited edition capsule collection of t-shirts and sweaters which support Peta’s main causes. Designer Simeon Farrar, the brainchild behind the label, hand crafted the quirky images for the collection which are all directly linked to Peta’s motto: ‘Animals […]
Barely a few months after dismissing Apple’s smartwatch, the new chief executive of luxury Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer conceded Tuesday that such a hi-tech gadget might after all have a place in his firm’s line-up. “Initially, we were all a bit reticent,” Jean-Claude Biver told reporters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Swiss city at the centre […]
A Patek Philippe gold watch billed as the most expensive — and most complicated — in the world fetched a record 21.3 million dollars (13.3 million pounds) on Tuesday when it went under the hammer in Switzerland. The sale of the “Henry Graves Supercomplication”, a handcrafted timepiece named after its original owner, a New York […]
Usually images of China, India or Bangladesh come to mind when one thinks of garment workers working long hours in dangerous conditions for little compensation in return. However, a recent study from the University of Leicester has found that thousands of garment workers in the city, which is also known as the UK’s largest garment […]
As the start of London Fashion Week descends up the UK capital, retailers start to prepare for the anticipated influx of international shoppers, but according to Global Blue, retail tourism experts, the spend boost is predicted to be higher than ever as the week coincides with the Chinese New Year for the first time, running […]
London – Following a period silence after animal rights organization published its undercover exposé on the horrific conditions suffered by crocodiles and alligators in farms in Texas and Zimbabwe from which luxury label Hermès acquires its exotic skins from, the fashion brand has issued a statement to the New York Times in response to the […]
Leather accessories brand The Cambridge Satchel Company is teaming up with iconic designer Vivienne Westwood for the second time to produce a limited edition collection of bags. Launching on July 8, the collection once again combines the classic satchel design with Westwood’s iconic squiggle print re-worked in new and exclusive colour-ways, including a classic navy […]