Articles by Jackie Mallon
WGSN Buyers’ Briefing: what is selling right now
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The trend forecasting site delivered a comprehensive retail-driven summery of trends driving Fall/Winter 2019 sales for those walking the floor of PROJECT Mens trade show this week to finalize their Winter buys. Here is what will continue to dominate for the remainder of the season so what to put front and center right now, compiled by color,...
PROJECT Mens N:OW shakes up the trade show experience
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Coming off a Las Vegas launch, N:OW at PROJECT has injected a vibrant international energy to the NYC trade show this time round. The show which traditionally positions like-minded brands into “neighborhoods” under one roof––The Tents, a range of elevated contemporary labels, The Foundry for refined apparel and grooming, Blue for premium denim,...
When trademark infringement becomes a force for good
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The NYU Costume Studies program’s new exhibit “Gray Area; Authenticity, Value and Subversion in Fashion” raises big questions in an industry now trembling under the beady eyes of Diet Prada. While the accepted thinking is that bootlegs, riffs and counterfeits should bring shame, and possible financial ruin, on any opportunist encroaching on the...
Nordstrom launches series of new men's retail concepts
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It was a suitably gelid January morning that Nordstrom, under the direction of its new VP of Men’s Fashion, Sam Lobban, chose to reveal its debut concept of 2019: a 20-brand winter weather shop entitled Out Cold. Brands selected arrive from Scotland, Sweden, Canada, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, Italy and the U.S. Amid reports...
Weather extremes bring the heat on the runway
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Raincoats and anoraks are flexing their Gore-Tex and ripstop credentials over skimpy bikinis on international runways. As our seasons blur and weather becomes more erratic, brands from Marine Serre to Moschino have taken to presenting hybrid outfits for a season-neutral appeal. Clear vinyl trench coats are trending no doubt because they put on...
You don't need to be an expert to succeed in fashion
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Designers, models, retailers, and professionals of all stripes in our industry might soon be questioning the value of their expensive educations, hard-won promotions, and patient ladder-climbing as career paths are not as straightforward as they once were. Take now-household name, Virgil Abloh. This week he was announced as new Creative Advisor...
Wake up call: Millennials are not the only consumer
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It’s a message arriving from sources as varied as Stylus, whose recent Decoded Futures summit in New York questioned our obsession with that most cash-poor demographic, to the United Nations which released a report this year stating that the population of all countries is expected to rise over the coming two decades. But still it’s a message...
Behind those magical traffic-stopping holiday windows
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Rivaling New York City's 72-foot Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center for visitors are the enticing holiday windows all along Fifth Avenue. But from Galeries Lafayette in Paris to Harrods in London, top retailers of the world’s most important shopping cities participate in the tradition of decking out their windows with boughs of holly,...
Is fashion's love affair with Instagram in danger?
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On the heels of the revelations that Cambridge Analytica used the fashion preferences of Facebook users to manipulate them politically, with sets of data revealing that Vogue readers and Abercrombie & Fitch shoppers were considered to be more liberal and open-minded than customers who liked Wrangler, we’re more suspicious of social media than...
In Pictures: Fabric in Fashion Exhibit at FIT
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New York - Just opened at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, the exhibit “Fabric in Fashion” demonstrates the journey from fiber to fabric to fashionable garment through a collection of garments, film footage and flat fabric swatches. Curated by Elizabeth Way and celebrating two and a half centuries of innovation, the show is divided...