Russian mink farms where thousands are slaughtered and left to rot to make $1m coats These disturbing pictures expose the macabre truth about the fur farms in Russia and China which supply the fashion market in the world's leading cities, including London, Paris and New York. Across ten time zones, the images show the reality of mink and sable gulags - many set up during the harsh Communist past - where prized animals are bred for slaughter, bringing in millions of pounds to the Russian economy every single year. An investigation by MailOnline also reveals the appalling conditions in which wild animals, including different types of fox, are captured and killed, from being skinned alive to being poisoned by the faeces in the air, and reveals the heartless farm owners who can't see beyond their profits. And there are certainly profits to be made: a sable 'blanket' sold for a record-breaking $900,000 to a royal just a few years ago, while a coat at last year's Fendi show was rumoured to have a price tag of $1.2million. Animals forced to suffer and starve in Russian fur farm
The Blonde Salad Ups the Ante | Intelligence | BoF LOS ANGELES, United States — Chiara Ferragni’s stream of selfies has drawn more than 6.5 million followers to her personal Instagram account. But the super-influencer has transformed her digital property The Blonde Salad, which she launched as a personal blog back in 2009 that now attracts an average of 500,000 unique visitors each month, into a full-fledged magazine that relies on plenty more than her outfit photos. “When I started back then, I just wanted a personal space,” says Ferragni, whose movie-star looks and playfully bold Italian style have earned her adoring fans the world over. “But for the last three years, we haven’t been a blog. We’ve been a website.” Now, the Los Angeles-based Ferragni is taking The Blonde Salad further, launching e-commerce at Shop.theblondesalad.com on September 6. Of course, Ferragni has learned a few things about retail from launching her shoe collection, which started out as a licensing deal in 2010. Related Articles:
Burberry teams up with Harrods for 2016 Christmas Windows London department store Harrods is working with fashion house Burberry to tell “A Very British Fairy Tale.” The retailer’s effort for holiday 2016 will kick off in November when its window displays facing Brompton Road are unveiled. Holiday windows attract crowds of shoppers and passersby, allowing the retail host to become part of consumers' traditions. A British wonderlandHarrods’ holiday windows will see the creation of a snow covered landscape and two small children as its protagonists. The window panes will include wintery scenes with flying cars, floating bathtubs and secret trails. As part of A Very British Fairy Tale, Burberry will provide an exclusively designed capsule collection. Burberry launched a similar effort in its Regent Street flagship for the month of June, giving consumers a close-up view of artisan hand embossing and monogramming. Burberry trench coat artisan The brand choose to highlight both British culture and its own history by focusing the design on rainwear.
LVMH Vice President Delphine Arnault: "IT IS HARD TO REJECT FASHION" - 032c Workshop This article originally appeared in 032c Issue #30: “NO FEAR”, released in May 2016. It is available now. If industry wisdom is now crowd-sourced, who makes the decisions in fashion? The power-center once called “the establishment” has become an amorphous blob that dilates and contracts with the flux of trending topics. The desires of demand run in every direction at once, and those who succeed at latching onto them in real time are instantly rewarded with sky-rocketing revenue. In this context, LOTTA VOLKOVA and DELPHINE ARNAULT are two opposite yet equally powerful sources of gravity. In this first instalment of the The Lotta-Delphine Complex, 032c talks to Delphine Arnault. Avenue Montaigne in Paris’s 8th Arrodissement is clean and sparkly at all hours of the day. Delphine Arnault, daughter of LVMH founder Bernard Arnault, leads this most profitable department, overseeing brands such as Céline, Christian Dior, Loewe, and Louis Vuitton, to name just a few. Yes, it is. Not for us. No.
Vogue BBC Two Documentary Screening Air Date Picture credit: Linda Brownlee 24 August 2016 Scarlett Conlon FILMING has wrapped, production has finished, and the air date for the BBC Two documentary series depicting life at British Vogue, Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue, has been confirmed. Documentary filmmaker Richard Macer was given unprecedented access to life at Vogue for nine months as it prepared for - and started celebrating - its centenary year. Related Gallery "At Vogue we are more used to being behind the lens than in front of it," said Shulman. Episode one picks up from the end of the spring/summer 2017 fashion shows in September 2015 and follows Shulman, fashion director Lucinda Chambers, creative director Jaime Perlman, fashion features director Sarah Harris, editor-at-large Fiona Golfar, and the wider Vogue team. Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue, BBC Two, Thursday, September 8, 9pm.
Fendi in China Karl Lagerfeld, looking very 1940s Berlin in his toggle-front, contrast-collar Kris Van Assche jacket, is on the Great Wall of China, curled up on a suede club chair. Spread over his lap is an expanse of knitted Russian sable that is worth as much as several years’ wages for most of China’s citizens. The scale and historical import of what he was about to do—stage a Fendi runway show on a more than 2,000-year-old, 4,500-mile-long structure visible from space—was hardly lost on the indefatigable designer. Where, indeed. Karl Lagerfeld strikes a pose, surrounded by models in his designs for Fendi “China will become, within 25 years from now, the greatest economic power in the world,” predicts LVMH kingpin Bernard Arnault. Some might consider traveling the world to put on such an extravagant fashion show a not-so-shabby feat, though it’s one Lagerfeld shrugs at. That won’t be the case when this video runs. To be sure, China’s ascendancy on the global fashion radar has been astonishing.
Culture - How Warhol’s work influenced our wardrobes LVMH, Boosting Women | Intelligence | BoF PARIS, France — Boardroom culture. We all know the cliché. A group of white, aging men who don’t see their families much. Women make the coffee and run their diaries. Sadly, the cliché often reflects reality. In fashion, more women rise to leadership positions — but not by much. Indeed, pervasive gender stereotypes still hinder women’s progress to the top of many industries. “We are developing and creating dreams, very often dreams for women,” said Chantal Gaemperlé, executive vice president of human resources and synergies of LVMH Moët Hennessey Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury conglomerate. In 2009, an internal study at LVMH revealed that while a majority of its workforce was composed of women, they often had trouble ascending the ranks and were seriously under-represented in senior management positions, meaning the company was failing to adequately harness the kind of female talent which could give it a competitive advantage. So is it working?
Meet the Female CEOs Running Fashion's Biggest Brands Although women account for two-thirds of clothing sales around the world, it's men who occupy the top positions at fashion companies — both on the creative side and, perhaps less surprisingly, on the financial. Of the 12 people on the executive committee of LVMH, fashion's biggest luxury conglomerate, only one is a woman — Chantal Gaemperle, head of human resources and synergies. And among its 15 fashion and leather goods houses — Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Berluti, Loewe, Fendi, Loro Piana, Celine, Emilio Pucci, Givenchy, Donna Karan, Thomas Pink, Marc Jacobs, Nicholas Kirkwood and Edun — only Donna Karan and Loewe have female CEOs. LVMH's chief rival, Kering, has long been similarly positioned, although its recent endeavors to place more women in executive roles have borne fruit. At U.S. fashion houses, the ratio is even worse. Without further ado, here are 20 female CEOs in fashion to follow. Maureen Chiquet, Global CEO, Chanel Maureen Chiquet, a 52-year-old St.
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