Articles by Sylvana Lijbaart
About You and Netflix launch new fashion label: Netflix Collection
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About You and Netflix are joining forces to launch a new fashion brand: Netflix Collection. The new fashion brand, as the name suggests, draws inspiration from various Netflix films and series, as announced in a press release. The first collection will launch at the end of this month. On October 28, two items will be launched that 'set the tone...
Fashion Stipend winner Camiel Fortgens: ‘We're going to conquer the world’
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The thirteenth Fashion Stipend Netherlands winner has been announced: Designer Camiel Fortgens took home the Culture Fund Fashion Stipend earlier this week. Fortgens joins a list of designers (collectives) who have previously received the incentive award. Fortgens is a Dutch designer who mainly operates abroad. In the Netherlands, he continues...
Camiel Fortgens wins Fashion Stipend 2024
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Designer Camiel Fortgens has won the Fashion Stipend ('Mode Stipendium') 2024 incentive prize of the Dutch Culture Fund (Cultuurfonds). The news was announced at the award ceremony on Tuesday evening. The Dutch designer received the prize at the cultural house ‘De Nieuwe Liefde’ in Amsterdam. Fortgens has not only received the title of winner,...
Kim Jones leaves Fendi
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After four years, Kim Jones and Fendi are going their separate ways. This was announced by Fendi's parent company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton in a statement on Friday. Jones worked as womenswear designer at the Italian fashion house. “Kim Jones made significant contributions to the brand's creative legacy, seamlessly integrating his modern...
Hugo Boss Foundation invests in Indian cotton fibre project
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The Hugo Boss Foundation has signed a partnership with the Grameena Vikas Kendram Society of Rural Development (GVK Society), an Indian grass-roots non-profit organisation with the mission to build regenerative, circular and socially inclusive agricultural value chains that optimise value for smallholder farmers and indigenous communities. This...
CIFF joins forces with ISPO Munich
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A new collaboration in the fashion fair landscape has risen. Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF) and ISPO Munich are joining forces, with the former to take up a partner stand at the German sports fashion fair, while ISPO Munich will also visit the Danish fair. The aim of the collaboration is to unite sports and fashion. The partnership...
H&M to buy back B-shares for one billion SEK
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Swedish fashion company H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB is buying back its B-shares via a share buyback programme, making use of authorisation that was granted in its 2024 Annual General Meeting, the company said in its financial update and explained in a separate press release. H&M is buying back SEK one billion (98.3 million dollars) worth of...
Peter Wertmann wins Lichting 2024 with graduate collection ‘Lost Product of Society’
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Peter Wertmann is the winner of Lichting 2024, the design competition of the Netherlands’ up-and-coming fashion talent. The announcement was made on Friday evening after the annual Lichting show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (AFW), held in an intimate space at De Hallen Studio’s in Amsterdam. During the show, ten emerging fashion designers presented...
Former EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger to advise Shein
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Former EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger will lobby for Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein. Oettinger is to advise Shein on the political climate in the European Union, as reported by Dutch media platform NOS on Wednesday. The Chinese fast-fashion giant is trying to improve its reputation against the backdrop of a planned IPO in London. Shein has...
On Holding AG posts success in first half, profit grows 156.5 percent
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The second quarter and first half of 2024 has been a strong one for Swiss sportswear company On Holding AG, which reported a double-digit sales growth for both periods. The half-year report of the brand also showed a strong improvement in net profit. Net sales totalled 567.7 million Swiss francs in the second quarter, while the company surpassed...