Luxury fashion house Valentino has recently opened its largest ever retail space. Located at 693 Fifth Avenue in New York City, the new 20,000 square foot flagship store was designed by British architect David Chipperfield, who has worked on other projects for the Roman fashion brand. The store houses Valentino’s...
Sudan-born and London-based fashion designer Omer Asim has shared his Autumn/Winter 2014/15 womenswear collection with The Style Examiner, and we could not but feel impressed with his budding talent and wonder why it has not garnered more recognition than what it has secured thus far. A true polymath, Asim graduated...
Brazil’s history has it that on 27 January 1881, and after two decades of witnessing the cruelty derived from the pervading slave trade while working in the port of Fortaleza, Francisco José do Nascimento gathered a few of his fellow workers and refused to ferry black slaves imprisoned on the...
It’s a sunny and warm morning in early April 2014 when the international press van that carries me arrives at a wide and leafy street in the exclusive and affluent neighbourhood of Jardim Europa in São Paulo. As we park, I gather my thoughts and put away my briefing papers...
As I examined the mood board for Brazilian label Tufi Duek’s latest collection during a preview of the garments that would be shown on the runway of São Paulo Fashion Week on 31 March 2014, I could not help but wondering how well received and understood the collection would be....
In spite of having established a solid international reputation as a manufacturing nation of clothing and footwear dating as far as back as the late 19th century, Portugal has not always been a country associated with sartorial creativity. However, that perception has been slowly changing owing to the efforts of Portugal...
American fashion brand Michael Kors has unveiled plans for its first flagship store in China. Located in Shanghai’s Jing An Kerry Centre, the new 6,000-foot retail space will be designed by Kors’ in-house team in collaboration with New York-based architectural firm KPF, and it will feature elements inspired by Michael...
Clothing group Arcadia has confirmed today that it is opening a flagship store for its Topshop/Topman brands in New York alongside the creation of a new US head office based in the city. Scheduled to open by the end of the coming summer, the store will be located on the...
As the Autumn/Winter 2014 collections unveiled during the twentieth edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week oscillated between the technically proficient and conceptually accomplished designs by Mattijs and Tony Cohen and the politically-infused creations by Aziz Bekkaoui or Francisco van Benthum, the show that stood out for all the right reasons was...
Developed alongside the main schedule of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam, Vodafone Firsts Fashion LAB is an initiative that defines itself as “a laboratory for talent and innovation consisting of catwalk shows and a range of workshops, lectures and presentations that support young designers.” Despite the good intentions of the initiative,...