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“Nimble” is the term the fashion world uses a lot these days.
Two entrepreneurs sourcing from India and looking at global markets from different, far-flung locales — one from New York, sourcing from the western state of Gujarat, and the other in the south Indian city of Chennai — have been adding the word to their daily work lives, and re-strategizing to fit the needs of international retailers like Bergdorf Goodman.
Shivam Punjya, founder and creative director of Behno, a New York-based company that recently won the Fashion Group International’s 2019 Rising Star Award for accessories, used the concept to make the leap from ready-to-wear to accessories.
“We had some very steep learning curves with ready-to-wear,” he told WWD. “The pivot for us as a young company has been to make this transition. It meant that we must learn to change our mindset, our understanding of the market, our teams. Most of all, to be nimble. We learned that ready-to-wear was investment-heavy for a small company, and although we had a lot of success with it, we knew that we had to make a change. In mid-2017, the company made the change. Within a year we could say that this strategy was working.
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MILAN — Sustainability was a key theme at the press conference held on Wednesday here to present the White Milano trade show running Feb. 22 to 25.
“White has in its DNA the vocation to experiment, anticipating and grasping the changes of the fashion system”, said White Milano founder Massimiliano Bizzi, announcing a new project in collaboration with a finalist of the 2018 edition of the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, Matteo Ward, as the creative director of “GIVE A FOK-us — Focus on the Unfocused.”
The project will allow communication with the younger generations, who are “more and more attentive to the traceability of fashion products. We believe it’s also a chance for buyers to renew their retail offer in a conscious way.”
“We are living in a moment of revolution of the fashion system, where we must run to realign the focus of our activities with the real needs of an exhausted planet, an exploited society and of individual people,” said Ward, pointing to a need to follow the example of other industries such as food and automotive, and “make sustainability fashionable. This path can give us a competitive advantage over the fast-fashion brands, which, by the way, are the most
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NEW YEAR’S FEAST: Simone Rocha might not have been able to attend her big Chinese New Year family celebration in Hong Kong, but she brought a taste of the festive spirit to London.
As she started her two-week residency at Matchesfashion.com’s town house at 5 Carlos Place, Rocha took the opportunity to celebrate with her fashion audience and shared some of her favorite Chinese traditions.
“My dad is in Hong Kong at the moment celebrating with my whole family. They are having a very big celebration in my auntie’s apartment. We usually have a Chinese meal together and give each other lucky pocket money,” said Rocha, whose father is the designer John Rocha.
“Unfortunately because my show is a week away, we now usually bring a big Chinese meal into the studio. This is a treat tonight — eating and sharing is the big focus for us.”
For the occasion, Rocha dressed the garden at Carlos Place with traditional red lanterns and created an installation that replicates the Chinese tradition of tying lucky pocket money on trees.
She also filled the town house’s ground-floor space with pieces from her Chinese-inspired spring collection and her popular hair accessories, which included pieces made exclusively for Matchesfashion, such
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SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Shoppers still mourning the closure of concept store Colette can get a temporary fix, with a new Paris pop-up by Sacai that reunites creative director Chitose Abe with former Colette creative director Sarah Andelman.
The “Bonjour Sacai” temporary store, scheduled to run from Feb. 12 to March 9, will kick off a worldwide sequence of Hello Sacai pop-up stores this year in key cities in Europe, Asia and the U.S. where the brand does not have its own retail stores.
Located on Rue de Richelieu, across from popular Japanese udon bar Kunitoraya, the French space will feature Sacai’s spring women’s and men’s collections, limited-edition kids’ and lingerie lines, and collaborations with local brands such as A.P.C., Petit Bateau and Hervé Chapelier.
Andelman, who heads her own consultancy, Just an Idea, also reunited Abe with jeweler Charlotte Chesnais and ceramics maker Astier de Villatte, who collaborated with Sacai in the past.
A jacket from Sacai’s collaboration with A.P.C.
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The pop-up will carry the exclusive prelaunches of Sacai’s latest collaboration with Nike, a Waffle Daybreak and LDV hybrid shoe, and custom-beaded BeatsX wireless earphones by Beats by Dre.
Sacai asked Gelchop, the studio that makes all of its store furniture and fixtures, to create bespoke pieces
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Jane Lu, founder and chief executive officer of Showpo, the Australian online fashion site that caters to Millennials, is getting into the bridal business.
Chatting at a cocktail party Tuesday night at p.r. firm Berns Communications Group’s New York headquarters, Lu said she plans to launch bridal gowns in May that will retail for about $200. She said the prices of wedding dresses, in general, have become “extraordinarily high.”
She’s launching bridalwear with six styles and is already designing the next range. She noted that formalwear sells really well on the site. As for her own nuptials, she’s planning an October wedding and expects to interpret whatever wedding gown she picks into a more affordable one for the site.
The Sydney-based ceo has been spending time in the U.S. lately, speaking at the National Retail Federation conference last month. She will also speak at ShopTalk in Las Vegas next month.
Lu said previously Showpo’s goal is to reach revenues of 100 million Australian dollars, or $71 million, by 2020, which she expects to reach in 2019.
In other news at Showpo, Lu said her Coachella range, which launched with eight or nine pieces, grew to 40 pieces last year and consists of 80 pieces that
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