What does fashion’s top trend-spotter think we’ll be wearing in the 2020s? | Fashion When Lidewij – or Li – Edelkoort started her career as a trend forecaster 45 years ago, people thought her job was “witchcraft”, she says. “Men would be giggling at the end of the room. But I have gained respect,” she says, “because I have been right so many times.” The Dutch 69-year-old is fashion’s best-known soothsayer, a woman who has spent more than four decades helping brands, including Prada, Zara and Coca-Cola, to anticipate customer desire. When we meet, she is swathed in loose, dark layers of Eskandar and Issey Miyake, and has just delivered a lecture to a rapt audience of 100 fashion and retail buyers in London. But while it is fun to imagine her as the Nostradamus of fast-moving consumer goods, her methods are relatively down to earth. “I can work 25 years ahead,” she says. She has never made a bad call, she says, not least because her predictions “are not my invention”. Edelkoort has, in fact, gone further than this. Muted colours Romantic dresses The end of ‘stuffocation’
Magazine mode : beauté, people, culture, vie perso, astro, votre magazine mode Glamour Clothes made with a biotextile that lives through photosynthesis | ecoist Many people may throw away clothes that have not been worn anymore for various reasons. There must be hardly anyone who knows how much clothes have been thrown away. According to a survey by the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN, 1 million tons of clothes equivalent to 3.3 billion clothes are discarded every year in Japan. One million tons per year for a population of 120 million people means that each person discards 8.3 kilograms of clothes per year. An innovative solution that aims for not only reducing such “clothing loss” but also changing consumers’ mindset has been launched. This project provides an opportunity not only to think about the sustainable future of fashion from the field of synthetic biology and design but also to explore how the design should be in the relationship with the organism. The clothes are fully compostable, and more importantly, the material will work to purify the air through photosynthesis while living. （エコイスト編集部）
Grazia : la mode, la beauté, les people et le luxe Fashion Technology & Tech Fashion Trends l CB Insights A look at the evolution of the fashion industry and where technology is taking it next, from AR/VR dressing rooms to temperature-changing smart fabrics and beyond. Fashion has always been a hotbed for innovation — from the invention of the sewing machine to the rise of e-commerce. Like tech, fashion is forward-looking and cyclical. At $2.2T, the fashion sector is also one of the largest industries in the global economy. And today, fashion technology is growing at a faster pace than ever. From robots that sew and cut fabric, to AI algorithms that predict style trends, to VR mirrors in dressing rooms, technology is automating, personalizing, and speeding up every aspect of fashion. In this report, we dive into the trends reshaping how our clothes and accessories are designed, manufactured, distributed, and marketed. Table of Contents Product Design Tech is automating the fashion designer AI Becomes The Designer Amazon is innovating in this area as well. How AI Is Influencing Brands Manufacturing
Actualité à la Une 12 Top Spring 2020 Fashion Trends - Spring Fashion Trends for Women The long parade of more than 100 fashion shows during the spring 2020 season, which took place few months ago, has finally come to market. The first order of business is discerning the most impactful trends of the season—from artisanal crochet and graphic polka dots to a look at decades past via disco collars and '60s wallpaper prints, couture feathers, hot pants, bold neons, and many more. See which designers led the pack for each new mode before you give your wardrobe a refresh. Welcome to what's now. 1. And just like that disco’s not dead. Pictured: Lanvin, Victoria Beckham, Salvatore Ferragamo, Saint Laurent, JW Anderson The Disco Collar The look is most impactful in jacket form—bonus points if it has a contrasting collar as seen on the Paco Rabanne runway. Horsebit print silk-twill shirt Guccimatchesfashion.com Groove into the trend with this eye-catching button-down. The Disco Collar on the Street 2. Crochet is getting a cool update come spring. Not Your Grandmother’s Crochet 3. Hot Pants
Looking beyond the “trend” of African fashion at Berlin Fashion Week | Sleek Magazine The South African fabric industry has taken big hits from foreign dumping. China’s textile makers have flooded markets with excess stock, which is sold at low prices and has put pressure on local production, driving many operations out of business. Still, because the imports are excess and not actually fabrics that the designers are ordering, it makes it difficult for designers to maintain consistency. “We don’t get a premier market where you go and order your fabric years ahead of schedule because now in two years orange is going to be big so you make sure you’ve got orange within your collection,” says Avenue tells SLEEK. While some, like Rich Mnisi, have scoured the imports to see what he can reliably depend on to create their colourful prints, others, like menswear designer Floyd Avenue, make the precarious nature of the local market part of their brand ethos.
The Fashion World, Upended by Coronavirus PARIS — Twice a year, the luxury fashion houses of the world present their ready-to-wear clothing for the coming season. This creates an international traveling circus of retailers and reporters, high-spending customers and Instagram influencers, executives and a small army of public-relations professionals, many traveling from New York to London to Milan and finally to Paris. This year, the caravan’s arrival in Milan in mid-February intersected with an outbreak of Covid-19, the new coronavirus, in Italy, then the country worst hit by the illness outside of Asia. And so, a thousand or so very well-clad people wondered for a few weeks: Would they become a global public health menace, a vector of transmission from the elite front rows of fashion shows to the world at large? The final leg of this monthlong tour arrived for a week in Paris starting on Feb. 24. Many attendees were sleep deprived; some were already sneezing and coughing from seasonal colds. “I wish I had invented that!” Ms.
Trois façons dont la COVID-19 changera nos vies | Coronavirus | Radio-Canada.ca 1. Nous ne voyagerons plus comme avant L’industrie touristique sortira passablement ébranlée de cette catastrophe, tout comme les voyageurs, estime Paul Arseneault, professeur à l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) et titulaire de la Chaire de tourisme Transat. L’industrie a déjà connu des crises, affirme-t-il, mais généralement, quand il y avait un problème quelque part, le reste du monde fonctionnait relativement bien. Au-delà du fait que nous n’aurons peut-être plus les moyens de partir en voyage, en aurons-nous seulement l’envie? Sera-t-on aussi à l’aise d’assister à des festivals ou à de grands rassemblements? Paul Arseneault ne pense pas que nous allons dorénavant bouder les rassemblements populaires et les voyages à l’étranger, mais le retour à la normale risque d’être long, prendre plusieurs années même. Entre-temps, de nombreuses entreprises, notamment des compagnies aériennes, risquent bien de mettre la clé sous la porte. 2. 3.
Achat local: le coût du local Acheter local peut-il aller au-delà du vœu pieu ? Car oui, les produits locaux sont souvent (plus) dispendieux. Pourquoi ? Les réponses sont multiples. Publié le 12 avril 2020 à 9h00 ✓ Lien copié Iris Gagnon-Paradis La Presse Le choix des matières premières C’est le constat le plus évident : la qualité des matières premières utilisées influe directement sur le prix. « Un “beau” polyester va coûter 5 $ le mètre; mes matériaux, en moyenne, coûtent 25 $ le mètre », illustre la designer Elisa C-Rossow, qui propose depuis une dizaine d’années avec sa marque homonyme des pièces haut de gamme minimalistes, durables, écoresponsables et confectionnées en très petites quantités dans son atelier, un autre facteur à considérer. « J’utilise ce genre de matériaux luxueux et naturels par souci écologique, et parce qu’ils durent dans le temps. Les gens sont habitués à une société de consommation extrême et peu coûteuse grâce à la surproduction. Elisa C-Rossow, designer Une main-d’œuvre payée justement
La machine à coudre redevient tendance (Bruxelles) Un retour « historique » pour la machine à coudre. À Bruxelles, un commerçant spécialisé dans les petites machines et accessoires de couture croule sous la demande des particuliers qui confectionnent des masques pour lutter contre le coronavirus. Publié le 5 mai 2020 à 13h00 ✓ Lien copié Matthieu DEMEESTERE Agence France-Presse Olivier Bruynincx, qui gère depuis 2014 la PME familiale dans le centre de la commune d’Ixelles, fait partie de ces rares entrepreneurs pour lequel la pandémie a entraîné un regain d’activité. Au point, dit-il, de le faire travailler « sept jours sur sept, quasiment jour et nuit pour réparer les machines à coudre », une expertise ayant permis à son enseigne de devenir l’une des plus réputées du secteur dans la capitale belge. Mais « on a continué de répondre au téléphone et très vite on a eu beaucoup de demandes pour les réparations », enchaîne-t-il, « parce que beaucoup de gens ont ressorti leur vieille machine pour commencer à coudre des masques ».