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Fashion News12/08/2024

French lawmakers vote to slow down fast fashion with penalties

France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.

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The vote makes France the first country in the world “legislating to limit the excesses of ultra fast fashion”, said Christophe Bechu, minister for the ecological transition.

Key measures include a ban on advertising for the cheapest textiles, and an environmental charge slapped on low-cost items.

The French clothes market has been flooded with cheap imported clothes, while several homegrown brands have declared bankruptcy.

But the main arguments put forward by

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Fashion News11/08/2024

Dries Van Noten is stepping down from his namesake label

Dries Van Noten has announced that he is stepping down from his namesake label, which he has headed up for almost four decades. The Belgian designer revealed that he wants to focus on other things, and feels ready for a new name to put a spin on his brand.

“In the early Eighties, as a young guy from Antwerp, my dream was to have a voice in fashion,” Van Noten said in a statement today. “Through a journey that brought me to London, Paris and beyond, and with the help of countless supportive people, that dream came true. Now, I

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Fashion News10/08/2024

Kookai Warehouse sale takes over Sydney’s Alexandria

Sydney’s industrial inner-city suburb of Alexandria, usually filled with men with forklift licenses, was taken over today by patient women in activewear.

Women turned up in droves to the suburbs thanks to the Aussie fashion label Kookai hosting a warehouse sale.

A giant line formed outside the sale by 8am on a Wednesday, filled with hundreds of women who were prepared to wait hours to snag a bargain.

School-aged girls were even ditching class or, as one teenager claimed, “just first period.”

The famous brand is known for its well-made basics and is usually the look of choice for any

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Fashion News09/08/2024

Trailblazing blazers: Petit Moi’s collaboration with local influencer Athisha Khan redefines the blazer as a fashion staple

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — Wearing it makes her feel like a million bucks so little wonder she calls it the Love of my Life blazer.

“Getting to make a blazer with the cut, style and colors I like in the right material is a dream come true,” said Malaysian social media influencer Athisha Khan of the blazer she designed in collaboration with fashion and lifestyle brand Petit Moi.

The relaxed-fit blazer, which comes in beige and black, features sewn shut functional pockets that you can cut open and detachable shoulder pads.

The relaxed-fit blazer comes in black. — Picture

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Fashion News08/08/2024

Encouraging Young People’s Creativity, GSI Supports Ganjar to Hold Bandung Street Fashion

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The Indonesian Artists Association (GSI), which supports Ganjar Pranowo, continues to embrace young influencers and artists to channel the talents and creativity of millennials and generation Z in several regions in Indonesia.

This time, GSI collaborated with dozens of young people from Citayam Fashion Week (CFW) along with content creators, dancers, Instagram celebrities and TikTokers to hold Bandung Street Fashion at Alun-Alun Cicendo, Bandung, West Java, on Saturday 26 August 2023.

This association of artists supporting Ganjar Pranowo also collaborated with famous influencer Thariq Halilintar to enliven this street fashion event. Apart from that, there were influencers,

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Fashion News07/08/2024

Canal+ brings fashion competition format Shopping Monsters to Africa | News

Shopping Monsters is distributed by Istanbul-based Global Agency

Fashion competition format Shopping Monsters is set to premiere on Canal+ in Francophone Africa from March 25.

The daytime show, developed in Turkey and distributed by Istanbul-based Global Agency, combines the elements of competition, gossip, makeovers and style.

Canal+ airs across 25 African countries in French, counting some 8.1 million subscribers and also owns more than 35% of African pay TV operator MultiChoice. Global Agency confirmed to C21 that Canal+ has produced a local version of the format for African audiences.

The Shopping Monsters makeover competition series has so far sold into

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Fashion News06/08/2024

Fashion designer Dries Van Noten to step down from name brand

Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, who for almost four decades dazzled the fashion world with his luscious use of colors and fabrics, said Tuesday he will step down as creative director of his namesake brand at the end of June.

Van Noten, 65, a master of blending the old with the new, said in a statement that the 2025 men’s Spring-Summer collection will be the last in his current role. He added that the women’s collection will be designed by his studio.

Van Noten’s successor will be announced at a later stage, he said.

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Fashion News05/08/2024

This new book celebrates Audrey Hepburn in Paris

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Hepburn at Givenchy’s atelier in Paris, 1956

1956 paris, similar shot in redbook, july 1956 ed feingersh not at michael ochs archive

Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy were lifelong friends. Here, she is pictured in the designer’s Parisian atelier in 1956, a few years after she starred in Sabrina. “You conquer the catwalks, the couturiers, the photographers, the unforgettable images of bistros and Parisian counters, but you always remain true to yourself. This naturalness of yours in entering the culture of another while managing

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