Only the second living designer to be honored in a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, Rei Kawakubo, the force behind the iconic Comme des Garçons (CdG)—at once a vision of the interstitial and convention-defiant Luddite—is the subject of a...

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Candida is a featured contributor to Social Media Today, specializing in Global Fashion Analysis and Trends. Candida’s most recent fashion foray is a fashion and style consultancy (in development) called BoomerAmped—invoking a style influencer of a certain age (Boomer), revved on life itself (Amped)—Age-defying, Mod, Plucky, Elegant Dame.
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Is Luxury Fashion Love Blind In Social?
All you need is love. Or so it seems the love potion luxury fashion houses are brewing in social media has the potency to cast that elusive spell on social media “luxurians,” customers and aspirationals alike. The cat’s meow in luxury fashion may not always be what...
Fashion Data Analysis or Sartorial Soothsaying?
What can fashion analysis in social media tell us about ourselves? A lot, I’d wager. Sartorial soothsaying (or is it sartorial psychographics?), I have a hunch designers would agree, is part social anthropology, craft and artistic execution, notwithstanding. So what...
Nike’s Pursuit of Luxe Leisure Fashion
Forbes published its annual most valuable brands study in May. While it may be no surprise that Apple took top ranking, followed by Google, notable is the elevated fashion brand lineup in the index. Teeming with fashion brands, primarily luxury, the Forbes top valued...
London Fashion Week Flexes Its Tech Appeal
In a sure sign of the dethroning of oligarchic fashion, the British Fashion Council (BFC), yielding to its ruling "chic" progeny, moved this season's London Fashion Week (LFW) from the stately Somerset House to an active Brewster Street car park in Soho. In stark...
Whither New York Fashion Week Men’s?
After spending a decade in the wings of women’s Fashion Week, NYFW: Men’s recently hosted its own singular event. Long overshadowed—and equally overdue by some accounts—by the high profile pomp of annual seasonal global women’s catwalks, men’s collections, and their...
Men’s Fashion: Even Punk Doesn’t Sacrifice Tailoring
Last month's Fashion Week flurry of Spring/Summer 2016 Men's Collections staged in London, Paris and Milan revealed both distinct trends and divergences among presenting designers. In an attempt to unravel and decipher what some fashion pundits suggested was...
Men’s Fashion Week Europe – Snapshot Theme Analysis
Last month’s Fashion Week flurry of Men’s Collections staged in London, Paris and Milan revealed both distinct trends and divergences among presenting designers. The NetBase Crosstab analyses in this post provide a glimpse. The Paris Men’s collection garnered...
Men’s Fashion Trend: Cult of Androgyny?
The recently concluded London Collection: Mens Spring/Summer ’16 (LC:M SS16) confirmed a look already evident on the January Fashion Week catwalk—a blurring of gender sharpened by effects, fabrics and techniques, typically attributed to women’s attire. Overall, LC:M...