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The countdown to the 2025 Met Gala has begun, and next year’s event promises to be one for the ages. Known as fashion’s biggest night, the Met Gala is a perfect marriage of art, culture and style, with celebrities, designers and influencers competing to make a statement on the iconic red carpet. Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute announces ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ theme for 2025, aimed at pushing boundaries while celebrating the rich heritage of Black fashion and style I did. Photo: @themetgalaofficial/Instagram Inspired by Monica L. Miller’s Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic…
Ralph Lauren (born October 14, 1939 in New York, New York, USA) is an American fashion designer who built one of the world’s most successful fashion empires by developing a brand around an image of the American elite lifestyle. I built one.Lifshitz grew up in the Bronx, New York City. He and his brother changed their last name to Lauren when they were teenagers. After graduating from high school, I took business classes at night school and worked in sales during the day. While working at a tie company, he was inspired to start designing his own neckwear and went…
Generation Z, the population born between 1997 and 2012, is stressed. But alongside concerns about climate change, geopolitics, and war, these people also worry about fashion.One of the things that has become synonymous with Gen Z is an eclectic sense of personal style, usually comprised of carefully recycled items, that frequently appears on social media feeds . This may all seem like fun and games, but a new study finds that Gen Z may be more concerned about their appearance than just how they look.Edubirdie, an online academic aid platform, found that fashion was a major concern for this demographic…
The Master’s degree in Urban Planning trains students to be leaders and innovators in all aspects of urban planning. Students learn traditional elements of urban planning while immersing themselves in innovative and new themes. Students will learn how to create prescriptive approaches to social justice, equity, and inclusion in planning practice, data resources, visualization techniques to transform cities, and place-based approaches to society’s most pressing problems. Masu. Students can also pursue one of 11 dual degrees in areas such as architecture, landscape architecture, public health, public administration, public policy, and real estate development. Core curriculum values concentration Students choose from…
Some experts argue that algorithms can optimize industry supply chains and reduce carbon emissions. As part of The Drum’s fashion and beauty focus, we learned that this may only be half the battle.The fashion industry is notorious for its negative impact on the environment. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, approximately 85% of all clothing and textile products end up in landfills or incinerators. The World Economic Forum’s 2021 report found that the fashion industry is one of the world’s biggest sources of air pollution, accounting for about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.Meanwhile, the rise of…
The relationship between forests and fashion has not traditionally been at the center of sustainability discussions, but recent reports of intensive deforestation for material production are changing that relationship. Here we explore some of the main drivers of deforestation in this sector. The hidden impact of material production on our forests It’s not immediately obvious how fashion will affect our forests. At least, it’s not as obvious as the impact on things like agriculture. This makes it easy for brands and organizations to hide behind opaque supply chains, and consumer demand for improvement is non-existent compared to modern forests. More…
Ultra fast fashion takes everything harmful about fast fashion and speeds it up. But that only starts to describe its dark side. This exposé dives deep into TikTok #hauls, brands’ gross labour abuses, and creepy “surveillance capitalism”. The most troubling story in fashion Like many trends in the 2020s, the story of ultra fast fashion starts with TikTok. And it often goes something like this. A young woman poses in a bedroom, hugging a bunch of plastic bags. She raises an eyebrow, bites her lip, and then winks before the video quickly cuts to the next clip: her hands on a…
David Steward has cemented his place as the richest black person in America, according to Forbes magazine’s prestigious American Billionaires List. His impressive rise has seen his net worth skyrocket to a staggering $11.4 billion, up from $7.6 billion just a year ago and $6 billion the year before that. The St. Louis, Missouri-based IT entrepreneur is the founder and chairman of World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology company that has propelled him to the forefront of black billionaires. Steward not only surpasses private equity magnate Robert Smith, who has an estimated fortune of $10.8 billion, but he also…
Everyone needs at least one pair of knee-high boots in their fashion arsenal. Especially now is the peak season for wearing boots. Indeed, ballet flats and loafers (both big fall shoe trends) are great transitional footwear options, as are the ever-reliable fashion trainers. But to make the most of all the dresses and skirts in your wardrobe, there’s nothing better than pairing boots with dresses.However, knowing how to style knee highs with a dress is a completely different matter. Should the hem of the dress cover the boots? Or should some skin peek through? If so, how much? Does it…
Customer buying clothing at fashion retail store. (detail)Once your clothes are designed and manufactured, you need to sell them. But how do clothes get from manufacturers to customers?The business of buying clothes from manufacturers and selling them to customers is called retailing. Retailers make initial purchases for resale three to six months before customers can purchase clothing in stores. Customers shopping and purchasing clothing at a fashion retail store. (detail)Fashion marketing is the process of managing the flow of goods, from the initial selection of designs for manufacture to the presentation of products to retail customers, with the aim of…