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There’s long been an allure attached to the Golden State, but it’s hit a new cultural resonance in the wake of the pandemic. A cohort of brands that put the Californian lifestyle at their centre are seeing a wave of interest, and growth.
The city’s unusual status as both a garment manufacturing and entertainment industry hub is proving a potent lure for fashion brand founders.
The 23-year-old brand is evolving into a true lifestyle label, offering fashion, homewares and most recently, beauty, selling a relaxed ideal of West Coast allure.
Diana Pearl is Senior News and Features Editor at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and drives BoF’s marketing and media coverage.
As the region’s creative and design scene drives economic growth, BoF sits down with the next generation of talent in Hong Kong to understand how they are navigating its growing presence on the global stage.
The intimate New York Fashion Week dinner celebrated the organisation’s new masterclass cohort of 18 designers — its largest yet. Alongside the designers, guests included model and activist Bethann Hardison, fashion designer Naeem Khan and Moda Operandi’s April Hennig, as well as fashion executives, retail partners and programme advisors.
The 15-year-old New York-based womenswear brand is introducing White Label — an accessible offer of button downs, pants and dresses ranging from $350 to $650, aimed at serving priced-out shoppers and future-proofing the business in a challenged retail environment.
The Korea Creative Content Agency is placing Korean fashion firmly on the global stage. The Business of Fashion sits down with the founders of Kimhēkim, Bonbom and Re Rhee — three fashion designers in its incubator programme, Concept Korea — to learn more.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
