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Watters turns 40: How a family business in Dallas scaled to 36 markets

In 1986, Vatana Watters started designing wedding dresses for her family and friends in Dallas, with no big plans for the future. “I wanted them to feel beautiful in the dress, not simply dressed like a bridesmaid, and ideally to want to wear it again. It was very personal and very small in the beginning,” she told FashionUnited. On Wednesday,...

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Sabato De Sarno is new creative director of Icicle

Sabato De Sarno is the new creative director of Icicle. “In this role, Sabato De Sarno will oversee the artistic direction of Icicle for the women's and men's ready-to-wear collections, accessories and eyewear. His first collection for Icicle will be presented for autumn/winter 2027-2028,” the company explained via its Instagram account. “I have...

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NYFW SS27 preview: A season of debuts, comebacks and a policy shift

New York Fashion Week opens the spring/summer 2027 season from September 10 to 15, with a tightly curated official calendar of roughly 70 runway shows and presentations that emphasizes debuts, high-profile returns, and a fur-free policy now in full effect. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has consolidated the official schedule...

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Vinted vs Depop: Should eBay spend more to win the second-hand battle in the US?

It took Vinted a few months to become a serious enough problem to appear in Wall Street analyst notes. The Lithuanian platform has built its peer-to-peer second-hand model for nearly twenty years. It only officially entered the US market in January 2026. However, it is advancing quickly enough to push Depop, now owned by eBay, to accelerate its...