Prada’s €1.25bn Versace takeover: a new era for Italian luxury
Prada has secured Versace at a €200m discount amid market turmoil, uniting two Italian fashion powerhouses Prada has agreed to buy the Versace fashion brand...
Category : Fashion
Birkenstock sues ‘copycat’ rivals claiming its sandals are applied art
German maker of fashionable cork-based footwear files three lawsuits alleging copyright infringement Once sneered at as the preserve of muesli-loving, Guardian-reading hippies, Birkenstocks have more...
Italian fashion designer and ‘colour genius’ Rosita Missoni dies aged 93
Founder of renowned knitwear brand was at forefront of bringing Italian ready-to-wear industry to global market Rosita Missoni, the esteemed Italian fashion designer who co-founded...
‘Delicate, authentic, charismatic’: Dolce & Gabbana launches €99 dog perfume
Italian brand makes first foray into pet scents – but RSPCA warns against such products as dogs rely on sense of smell If the axiom...
Paris fashion week: Dior champions goddess gowns and 1920s glamour
Fashion house takes inspiration from Olympic Games in grandest sense for show in garden of Musée Rodin Like everyone else in Paris right now, the...
‘Youth is the future’: gen Z should be celebrated, says Prada
The house’s menswear show drew on youthful spirit, while Fendi got ready to mark 100 years with a new crest They have been been ridiculed...
Barcelona police criticised for baton charge at protest over fashion show
Police response to protest over closure of Park Güell for glitzy event was ‘totally out of proportion’, resident says Catalan police have been criticised for...
Skins and feathers are as cruel as fur, the fashion industry is told
Copenhagen fashion week is hailed for raising the bar on animal rights. But will the organisers of other fashion weeks follow? Copenhagen fashion week has...
Birkenstock shares fall 12.6% after landing on the US stock market
Shoemaker lands on NYSE with $7.5bn valuation as investors bet there was less mileage in consumer demand for its sandals Shares in Birkenstock fell 12.6%...
Coco Chanel exhibition reveals fashion designer was part of French resistance
Previously unseen documents to go on display at V&A alongside evidence of her collusion with Nazis A major retrospective of Coco Chanel has unearthed evidence...
