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1 week ago | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
Independent show reviews from fashion’s top critics. The Japanese brand’s fastest-growing line is ceding the Paris fashion week spotlight to IM Men and taking a ‘slow road’ with traveling events powered by a new ‘open studio’ strategy, starting with an Italy-inspired presentation at Pitti Uomo in Florence. KFN, which launched earlier this year, unveiled on Thursday plans to evolve New York Fashion Week, starting with a new network of venues available to designers without a fee.
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1 week ago | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
Five years after putting his namesake label on pause, Umit Benan is back. Armed with a new business model and financing from New Guards Group co-founder Davide De Giglio, the master tailor is relaunching Umitbenan (one word this time around) and will unveil a new collection and retail concept on Friday in Milan.
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1 week ago | 
d.repubblica.it | Angelo Flaccavento
IM Men ha debuttato in passerella a Parigi a gennaio, ed è l’ultimo progetto lanciato da Issey Miyake – era il 2021 – prima della sua scomparsa. In quanto tale rappresenta la summa del suo pensiero: l’idea che riportare l’abito il più vicino possibile allo stato originale di pezzo di tessuto, minimizzando tagli e sprechi, consenta una relazione nuova, più libera, tra il capo e chi lo indossa.
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1 week ago | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
Issey Miyake’s fastest-growing label, Homme Plissé, is staging a fashion presentation and exhibition tonight here at Pitti Uomo as part of a shakeup to the brand’s menswear strategy. Having ceded its Paris catwalk slot to the late Issey-san’s equally cherished IM Men, Homme Plissé is set to “travel around the world to present its clothing in places and at events where it has never been before,” the company announced in March. Florence is its first stop.
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2 months ago | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
On Monday, Giorgio Armani posted a personal message to his label’s Instagram, remembering his dear friend Anna Riva, who died last week at the age of 90.
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2 months ago | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
The last time I touched down at Shanghai Fashion Week in March 2019, nine months before the Covid-19 outbreak, the Chinese economy was booming and the event, brimming with energy, was poised tomake the leap to fashion’s major league. Six years later, a lot has changed — but not all for the worse. During the pandemic, when China was closed to the world, buyers embraced local designers, giving the country’s domestic fashion scene a boost.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
It comes as no surprise that Jonathan Anderson is officially exiting his role at Loewe. No men’s show in July; an exhibition-like presentation in October; a long silence on his personal Instagram broken in recent days by a carefully curated retrospective of his best moments at the Spanish brand — the clues were everywhere.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
PARIS — Fashion brands need a clear vision, even more so at this critical moment for the industry, and too often labels fail to communicate with clarity. But fashion is a kitchen, not a laboratory, and brands need recipes, not formulas, if they are to resonate with customers. Anthony Vaccarello is unafraid to stick to a clear concept per outing.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
PARIS — Big fashion spectacles are becoming a tired concept. In Paris, even the billion-dollar brands have scaled things down amid budgetary pressures and the sense that luxury has become too mass. Rei Kawakubo said on Saturday, “smaller is stronger.” It’s certainly cooler. Louis Vuitton is the world’s largest luxury brand, but its show was dramatically smaller this season.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
businessoffashion.com | Angelo Flaccavento
PARIS — Who needs brand storytelling, so trite and fabricated, when the dialogue between clothing and body can do all the talking? It happens rarely, but the seventh day of the Paris shows offered glimpses. Urgency was on Balenciaga designer Demna’s mind this season: the kind of urgent desire for a new item that has been missing from fashion for so long. Ever the acute social commentator, Demna explored this sense of urgency through the symbols and standards adopted by tribes of everyday people.
