French luxury house Hermès is set to acquire the Bond Street store occupied by prestigious jeweller Asprey for £73.5m. The French fashion house is buying the property, designed by Foster & Partners, from Quinlan Private, the Irish property investment firm that also owns landmark London hotels including Claridge’s and the Connaught. Hermès is keen to … Continue reading "Hermès to acquire Asprey’s bond street boutique"

On Thursday Gap will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a concept pop-up boutique – Gap1969 in Soho’s Kingly Court in London. Customers can expect to find exclusive denim styles, as well as designer and artist collaborations with Pierre Hardy and Pharrell Williams and French artist Garance Dioré. For 19 days and 69 hours exactly, the … Continue reading "Gap launches Soho pop up shop"

Gucci is launching an haute couture arm to its fashion house, called Gucci Premiere. Primarily designed for the red carpet and the celebrities who walk it, the Italian luxury brand debuted a dress worn by Salma Hayek for the opening night of the glamorous Cannes Film Festival. Gucci creative director Frida Giannini told WWD the … Continue reading "Gucci goes couture"

Last week third year Fashion Design students showed their work-in-progress final collections to win their place on the catwalk during Graduate Fashion Week. The event will take place at Earls Court in London from Sunday 6 to Thursday 10 June. Fashion names Karen Millen and Anthony Campbell recently joined a panel of judges to select … Continue reading "Designers of the future"

London may be one of the fashion capitals of the world, but global recognition can also be found in towns as far as field as Elgin, Cheltenham and Yeovil, says the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), organisers of the annual export awards, the industry’s Oscars, being staged this Thursday in London. Despite the difficult … Continue reading "UKFT fashion export awards"

Showcasing 200 UK and international designer businesses, applications are now open for designers to participate in London Fashion Week September 2010. There are six categories for application including womenswear catwalk and presentation, menswear catwalk and presentation, the exhibition, estethica and its internationally recognised talent support scheme Newgen sponsored by Topshop and Newgen Men, sponsored by … Continue reading "LFW applications open"

Luxury British label Burberry is to be honoured with a Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award, which will see the brand immortalised on the fashion world’s answer to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 Launch in 2003 by the city of BeverlyHills and the Rodeo Drive Committee, the Rodeo … Continue reading "Burberry to be honoured with Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award"

Selfridges has ramped up its personal shopping experience in time for the holiday season by introducing its ‘Elfridges’ service. The premium department store is offering a one-of-a-kind personal shopping service in all four of its stores, which include personal styling advice and gift shopping as well as the opportunity to be brought home by a … Continue reading "Selfridges ‘Elfridges’ service to drive shoppers home this Christmas season"

The stars were aligned at Dior’s Haute Couture fashion show in Paris on Monday. The spring-summer collection itself was all groovily “Barbarella,” with fluorescent orange boots and skintight catsuits with flower-power patterns worn by models descending from a multi-level space-opera set purpose-built in the gardens of Paris’s Rodin Museum. David Bowie’s early years London pop … Continue reading "Dior celebrates retro space-agism during Paris Fashion Haute Couture Week"

As the streets of London fill up with visitors keen to the top fashion labels taking over city’s catwalk during London Fashion Week, seasoned designer Henry Holland warns young emerging designers to be aware of the increasing dangers intellectual property (IP) theft poses for those in the international spotlight. The designer behind House of Holland … Continue reading "Henry Holland cautions young designers of IP theft risks"