Showing posts with label fashion industry insight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion industry insight. Show all posts

Monday, 18 March 2013

Ukraine gets its own VOGUE

In the latest addition to the line-up of international editions of Vogue, Vogue Ukraine has just launched, and it will focus on local designers and culture, as well as important and sometimes controversial issues affecting women.

"In a couple of years, Ukrainian fashion will have its own face,” Ms. Tsukanova said. “And Vogue Ukraine is going to help this industry develop.” Read more...

Monday, 4 March 2013

Fashion Industry Insight - PPR

So, were you wondering what the hell happened recently at Balenciaga? The amazing Nicolas Ghesquiere suddenly leaves, and is replaced by Alexander Wang? What was that all about?!

Did you know that Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, and now Christopher Kane, are all owned by the same company?

In this first installment of Model Hideout Fashion Industry Insight, this great article by the New York Times' T Magazine takes you behind the scenes of one of the fashion industry's most powerful companies, PPR (Pinault-Printemps-Redoute) and gets to know PPR's CEO, Francois-Henri Pinault.

It’s not like I called Nicolas up one day and said, ‘It’s over.’ That’s not how it works,” said François-Henri Pinault, who runs PPR, corporate parent to some of fashion’s best-known brands. Nonetheless, it came down to the same thing in the end. Last November, Pinault decided that the fashion darling Nicolas Ghesquière was no longer the right man for the job of creative director at Balenciaga...   Read More...