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LONDON — Alighieri, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, David Koma, Halpern, Métier and Rejina Pyo are the six brands to be shortlisted for the British Fashion Council and Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2020. The winner will receive a cash prize of 200,000 pounds and a year’s worth of mentoring.
The winner will be revealed in May and the judging panel this year includes Edward Enninful, editor in chief of British Vogue; Caroline Rushm chief executive officer of the BFC; Paul Smith; Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial, and Natalie Kingham, buying director of Matchesfashion.
“The shortlisted designers have all demonstrated immense skill and business acumen to date,” said Enninful, while Rush added that “it is a very exciting lineup that shows the breadth of talent we have in the U.K.”
The shortlisted designers will take part in a mentoring program with the BFC’s business development team where they will have access to industry experts on areas such as business strategy, merchandising and international growth.
Last year, designer Grace Wales Bonner was the winner, while past recipients include Molly Goddard, Christopher Kane and Erdem.
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VIENNA, Austria — A selection of colorful Rudi Gernreich dresses contrasting with the all-black sleek Helmut Lang looks at the entrance of the MAK Museum of Applied Arts here sets the tone of the first comprehensive exhibition of Austrian fashion.
The designs are strategically placed on a powerful 21.3-foot-high open installation created by architect Gregor Eichinger, which allows visitors to directly experience about 250 fashion pieces, from clothes to shoes, handbags and accessories by 60 designers, with a 360-degree view.
“We are all children of Tetris,” said Eichinger about the concept behind the towering structure, inspired by the classic Eighties game. “Fashion is about movement and living in clothes, and this helps get the 3-D sense into space.”
Hermann Fankhauser, one half of the Wendy & Jim design duo with Helga Ruthner, said the installation shows “an intellectual reasoning behind it, not just placing dresses on a doll, or a mannequin.” In 1999, the designers were the first from their nation to participate in Festival de la Mode in Hyères and they were students of Lang at the University of Applied Arts linked to the MAK. From Lang, Fankhauser learned that the “key to success is to work on your own language, and
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While the New York Fashion Week fall 2020 schedule lacked a number of major designer brands, the week was still full of memorable moments that sent social media abuzz.
This season, designers’ front rows had a number of viral moments, namely Leslie Jones at Christian Siriano, where videos of the comedian enthusiastically cheering on model Coco Rocha sent social media into a frenzy, and at Brandon Maxwell, where stars from Netflix’s new docu-series, “Cheer,” sat in the front row and gave each model their famous “mat-talk.”
Other designers brought some added star power to their shows, including Miley Cyrus walking at the Marc Jacobs show, Debbie Harry singing at Coach and Orville Peck performing at Michael Kors.
Read on for the seven highlights from New York Fashion Week fall 2020.
1. Miley Cyrus Models in Marc Jacobs’ Fall Collection
Miley Cyrus walks at the Marc Jacobs fall 2020 show.
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Marc Jacobs knows how to end New York Fashion Week with a bang.
Jacobs followed up last season’s show — where he began with the models’ finale walk — by creating a performance art piece for his fall 2020 collection, enlisting 54 dancers that scattered around the stage as groups of models walked in between them.
Among the chaos,
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After issuing a new guide on how influencers should disclose partnerships, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment.
The FTC announced yesterday that it is looking for feedback on whether to modify its endorsement guidelines, which were enacted in 1980 and haven’t been updated since 2009. In a proposed Federal Register notice, the FTC is soliciting comments as part of a “systematic review” of its regulations and guides.
Among the FTC’s concerns are “whether changes in technology or the economy require changes to the guides” and “whether children are capable of understanding disclosures of material connections and how those disclosures might affect children.” These concerns seem to be somewhat related to the rise of TikTok, which is understood to have a large Gen Z audience and does have advertising capabilities.
The FTC also has questions regarding how well advertisers and influencers are disclosing their partnerships on social media and reviews based on incentives. In October, the FTC banned skin-care brand Sunday Riley from leaving fake reviews on its products.
The notice will be published in the Federal Register “soon” and includes instructions for filing comments. Comments, writes the FTC, must be received within 60 days of publication and will be posted publicly on
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On Tuesday night, Rosie Assoulin revealed her third season (but first presentation) of her secondary line, By Any Other Name, à la a cocktail event at the upcoming American Bar, with models mingling throughout the room, almost incognito in the new designs. The idea was purposeful — Assoulin designed the looks (and line as a whole) as daily offerings for the modern woman (while simultaneously giving her freedom to implement more adventurous ideas into her mainline ready-to-wear). The event also marked Assoulin’s sole quote-unquote presentation during New York Fashion Week; mainline will be showing in Paris.
“A separation of heaven and earth,” the designer described. “For us, the collection is very special and unique, and then there’s the everyday.…That ‘I still don’t want to feel dead inside when getting dressed.’ I still want to be myself wherever I go but comfortable, appropriate but special, so that’s where this tension came from.”
Within Assoulin’s thirtysomething looks, “basics with a twist” came in many wonderful shapes and forms. There were cozy knits with sleeves that could be pushed to an off-the-shoulder silhouette, reversible raincoat-meets-winter coat, and plenty of really great day dresses in more “everyday fabrics,” including organic, cruelty-free and sustainable options (as in
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The brand’s hydro-mechanical timepieces have been available on the men’s style site since September.