“I’ll never forget the moment that David Letterman licked the body cream off my arm,” said Jessica Simpson from her home office in Calabasas, California. It was 2004 and the pop star was promoting her first-ever personal care line, an edible range of lotions and shimmer powders called Dessert Beauty, created by the entrepreneur Randi…
The École Supérieure des Arts et Métiers de la Mode (ESMOD) is a leading international fashion school headquartered in Paris’ ninth arrondissement. Founded in 1841 — the world’s oldest fashion design school — it now operates 12 campuses across eleven countries, including six in France: Paris, Pantin, Roubaix, Lyon, Bordeaux and Rennes. Blending heritage, craftsmanship…
On Thursday evening, H&M returned to London Fashion Week with a buzzy outdoor runway presentation at the city’s 180 Strand venue – staged in a bespoke, red-luminescent courtyard decked out with large digital screens, and encircled by towering buildings. The brand’s first catwalk in seven years featured a performance by Brit pop star du jour…
Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a higher education design school teaching creative disciplines across design, fashion, visual arts and communications. Since opening its doors in Milan in 1966, the institution now welcomes around 10,000 students on average per year on 11 campuses across Italy, Spain and Brazil. The IED alumni network includes Pierpaolo Piccioli,…
Call them China’s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei’s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is…
In the mid-2010s, the actor Shay Mitchell began to spend as much time at 30,000 feet as she did on land, which is to say she had a lot of free time to consider the inconveniences of life as a frequent flier. The subject of her ire? Luggage, which was either too cheap to look…
American It girls have long loved Danielle Guizio. The New York-based designer got her start a decade ago sending graphic T-shirts to tastemakers like Kylie Jenner, Hailey Bieber and the Hadid sisters. Since then, she’s expanded her assortment of youthful and social media-friendly apparel, such as mini skirts, sweater sets, corsets and micro dresses that…
This summer, fashion’s marketing machine has had an unusual number of misfires. In just the span of a month, we’ve had: American Eagle’s “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign, where the denim-clad actress’s ad nodding to her appearance was called out for having racist undertones. The brand defended its campaign, stating it “is and always…
Falmouth University, situated on the south coast of Cornwall, England, is a higher education institution specialising in the creative industries. It places a strong emphasis on sustainable practices across all areas, particularly their fashion, textiles and business programmes. Its fashion-related degrees span design, marketing, photography, styling and art direction. Recent graduates include Beth Somerville, the…
In April 2017, a group of protesters squared off against a line of police officers. Tensions were mounting. Would this turn into yet another of that era’s violent clashes? Thankfully, Kendall Jenner ended the stand-off, not with persuasion but with a Pepsi. In a now-infamous commercial, Jenner, a symbol of great privilege, cut through all…