British Fashion Council announces the Fashion Awards 2020, with Beijing, Shanghai screenings
With the UK continuing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Awards (formerly the British Fashion Awards) announced its 20 winners with a digital film première. The 30-minute film went live at www.fashionawards.com today and on YouTube on the BFC’s account, and was screened in selected cities, including Beijing and […]
H&M’s new Conscious Exclusive collection to feature Eastman Naia Renew cellulosic fibre
Lucire is the first fashion partner of UN Environment. One of fabrics used by H&M’s Conscious Exclusive autumn–winter 2020–1 collection, being released December 1, is Eastman Naia Renew cellulosic fibre. Naia Renew is made from 60 per cent certified wood fibres and 40 per cent recycled waste plastics, including carpet fibres and plastic packaging—traditionally […]
Putting the brakes on fast fashion
Lucire is UN Environment’s first fashion industry partner. Abigail Beall’s statistics in a recent BBC report about clothing recycling make sobering reading. She writes, ‘Around 85% of all textiles thrown away in the US—roughly 13 million tonnes in 2017—are either dumped into landfill or burned. The average American has been estimated to throw away around […]
Pureology relaunches with reformulated line-up for summer 2020
After preparing for two years, Pureology is relaunching for summer 2020, with a fully renovated line-up and reformulations. The line-up continues Pureology’s high-performance, professional-grade principles, and comprises shampoos, conditions, treatments and styling products. The formulas are sulphate-, paraben- and mineral oil-free. All formulas remain 100 per cent vegan. They are made with Pureology’s […]
Lancôme opens first flagship store at 52 Champs-Élysées
Lancôme, part of the L’Oréal group and the number-one luxury beauty brand in the world, has opened its first flagship store at 52, Champs-Élysées, in Paris, with a two-storey, 300 m² space showcasing all their lines, beauty technology, and gift personalization. Designed to be immersive, the entrance space is called ‘the Joy of Now’, […]
Double WOW: Rinaldy Yunardi wins World of Wearable Art Supreme Award for the second time
Stephen A’Court Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Above: Rinaldy Yunardi’s The Lady Warrior nets the designer his second Supreme Award at WOW. Indonesian designer Rinaldy Yunardi becomes the third person—after last year’s sisters Natasha English and Tatyanna Meharry—to win the Supreme Award at the World of Wearable Art awards (WOW) in Wellington tonight. In the 32-year […]
Irina Shayk, Dakota Fanning, Camila Morrone, Rola at H&M Conscious Exclusive’s LA party
Billy Farrell/BFA.com The H&M Conscious Exclusive range had its US launch on Wednesday, with VIPs including Irina Shayk, Dakota Fanning, Rowan Blanchard, Halima Aden, Rola, Camila Morrone, Abigail Spencer, Amber Valletta (who has additionally appeared in H&M campaigns), Alek Wek, and Emmanuelle Chriqui attending a party in Los Angeles. The new range is inspired […]
Adwoa Aboah, David Gandy, Richard Madden, Niomi Smart at Range Rover Evoque launch
David M. Benett Land Rover has launched its second-generation Range Rover Evoque, combining design cues from the original and the highly acclaimed Range Rover Velar. Activist and model Adwoa Aboah was the celebrity hosting the launch, wearing a specially commissioned Ashley Williams dress made from responsibly sourced materials—namely 40 recycled plastic bottles turned into a […]
Hennes & Mauritz has released its full set of Conscious Exclusive images for 2018, with Christy Turlington Burns, Aamito Lagum, and Giedrė Dukauskaitė modelling, in photographs by Mikael Jansson, who has worked with the Swedish retailer over many campaigns. The collection, previewed in Lucire in February, hits select H&M stores on April 19, with […]
Jean Baptiste Lacroix Frederick M. Brown H&M Conscious Exclusive, meanwhile, scored another high-profile celebrity wearing the label: US actress Amanda Seyfried, who wore it to the première of her film, Gringo, on March 6 at the Regal LA Live Stadium 14 in Los Angeles. Again this was custom-designed: a sleeveless floor-length blue-grey gown made from […]
