Skinwear and hosiery specialist Wolford has reported that while its sales were “strongly marked” by the impacts of Covid-19 it still had a strong first half-year. The first six months of the current fiscal year, May to December 2020, Wolford reports that it generated sales of 48.17 million euros, a drop in revenue of about 20 percent compared to...
5 Jan 2021
"Retail chains seem to forget that their employees are under enormous pressure to stay healthy, to work and to provide exceptional service as well. Before Covid-19, we already saw an increase of customer entitlement, now there is an extra layer: they don't want to be forced to wear a facemask or to social distance," says Christopher Lacy, former...
6 Nov 2020
Understanding larger social and economic trends is an important part of the design process in fashion. These larger trends have a downstream effect on color, silhouette and texture from season to season. And so fashion designers and merchandisers work with their teams, and with external agencies, often a full year out, to determine how these...
30 Oct 2020
As with many fashion trends, what once served a utility, such as a jacket lapel, a riveted pocket or an upturned shirt collar, is now simply a preferred style without connection to function. During flu season, face masks were the polite society norm in Asia. Now, most of the rest of the world has accepted face masks and therefore they will...
Accel Lifestyle founder and CEO Megan Eddings and designer Mark Zunino will auction off two custom face masks in celebration of their recent collaboration with a virtual “Meet the Makers” event. Hosted via Instagram, Eddings and Zunino will sit down for a chat to discuss topics from what it is like designing for celebrities to successfully...
25 Aug 2020
British luxury label Burberry has taken its first foray into face mask fashion with the launch of a designer 90 pound reusable face covering. The masks, available exclusively online, are made using excess fabric and come in the brand’s iconic vintage check design in either archive beige or pale blue, with additional styles to be launched in...
24 Aug 2020
For many years the humble T-shirt was a brand or retailer’s go-to when doing a charity campaign, it was the perfect plain canvas to emblazon with slogans and prints to raise vital funds, in the era of the coronavirus pandemic, brands have turned to making face masks, to stop the spread as well as make charity donations. With new Government...
24 Jul 2020
Apex Global Brands' subsidiary Hi-Tec Sports will be launching a new patent pending ‘Venture Series’ of performance apparel in collaboration with Tharanco Lifestyles. The initial range, which will include built-in face masks, will launch nationally this fall and be available to purchase on Hi-Tec’s website, as well as at retailers throughout...
2 Jul 2020
With Covid-19 lockdown measures easing around the world, consumer mindsets are likely to change again: the favoring of nostalgic fashion as a form of escapism, wearing face masks as fashion accessories, ‘homewear’ wardrobes, a return to minimalism and the prioritization of transparency and kindness are some of the trends that retailers can...
19 Jun 2020
YR, a London based fashion-tech company, has launched its new custom face mask service that allows consumers and businesses to design their own reusable mask. People can use the YRMasks website, which was launched on May 29, to create their own design and see it printed on a face mask. As the service has been successful in the UK, the company...
10 Jun 2020
London - British fashion designers and brands including Raeburn, Mulberry and Liam Hodges, have collaborated with the British Fashion Council on their ‘Great British Designer Face Coverings: Reusable, for People and Planet’ campaign to raise money for charity. There are six sustainable, non-medical face masks, designed by Halpern, Julien...
8 Jun 2020
Mango has announced that its newest collection will include a range of face masks for men, women and children. The Spanish fashion brand has created the face masks in compliance with the Spanish Association for Standardization’s requirements for materials, design and manufacturing. Conforming to these standards “guarantees filtration in excess...
29 May 2020