A new mantra for the fashion business might be “Men don’t shop; they buy.” Menswear accounted for 40 percent of the total luxury fashion market last year, growing 14 percent in 2011, compared with womenswear, which grew by just 8 percent. In Australia, the post-recession recovery phase paired with Gen X’s concern with its appearance [...]
Sep 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: Australia menswear, Fashion, fashion trends, Generation X, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, menswear, menswear online, menswear trends, online retail, Paul Smith, Pierre Cardin, Spring-Summer 2013 menswear | Leave A Comment »
The average American buys 64 items of clothing each year—more than one item per week—spending roughly $1,100 (just 3 percent of this goes to American-made clothes). It’s called “fast fashion,” and all those $10 tank top sales add up; fast fashion pioneers H&M and Zara netted $746 million and $540.2 million, respectively, in recent quarters, [...]
Sep 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Marketing, Trends | Tags: American consumers, American trends, Australia fast fashion, fashion industry, fashion trends, fast fashion, garment industry, H&M, haute couture, local movement, Morgan Stanley, Zara | Leave A Comment »
After a slow but steady reemergence over the past few years, retro fashions like little-girl bangs, ruby lips, tie-front crop tops and high-waisted pants are back in a big way. Pinup chic, popularized by Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page, among others, is fundamentally demure, even wholesome in comparison with some hypersexy modern styles. [...]
Jul 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: Anna Sui, Bettie Page, Diane von Furstenberg, Dita Von Teese, Dolce & Gabbana, fashion trends, Guess by Marciano, Jason Wu, Kat Von D, Katy Perry, Lana del Rey, Louis Vuitton, Marilyn Monroe, pin-up fashion, pin-up girls, pin-ups, Rita Hayworth | Leave A Comment »
I have spent the greater part of the past few years poring over fashion blogs, designer websites and photographs from impossibly distant events like the Met Gala or the Cannes Film Festival. I can identify an article of clothing purchased from any major retailer, if not just because I recognize it, but also because I [...]
Jun 08, 2012 | Categories:Fashion, Features, Marketing, Social Media, Trends | Tags: beauty, bloggers, Cannes Film Festival, clothing, consumer, designer, Fashion, fashion bloggers, fashion blogs, fashion trends, identity, media literacy, Met Gala, Pittsburgh, retail, self-esteem, Trends, websites | Leave A Comment »
Taking a lesson from the established popularity of fashionable food trucks, the retail industry is going mobile as well—with quirky clothing and accessories stores in vehicles as varied as rehabbed double-decker buses, school buses, Airstreams and Winnebagos. See Wanderlust, which sells vintage and handmade goods in Portland, Ore., from a 1969 converted travel trailer or [...]
May 23, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: boutiques on wheels, e-commerce, Fashion, fashion trends, fashion trucks, L'Oréal, mobile commerce, shopping trends, social, Social Media, taxi shops | Leave A Comment »
Molly Sims reports being in a “Santa Fe state of mind” this spring. The supermodel has curated a collection of discounted, Southwest-inspired clothing and jewelry for social shopping site Open Sky. Padma Lakshmi, Kristin Cavallari, Stacy Keibler and dozens more tastemakers have also hand-selected items for sale on the site. Known as “social shopping,” the [...]
May 01, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Brands, Fashion, Marketing, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Facebook, fashion trends, Feyt, Fina File, Kristin Cavallari, Moda Operandi, ModeWalk, Molly Sims, Open Sky, Pinterest, shopping trends, Social Media, social shopping, Stacy Keibler, StyleOwner, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
In March, 77 designers showed at ARISE Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria. In spite of some hiccups—the first two days were canceled because of electricity problems; local models complained about disproportionate pay—the event proved the power of African designs on the high-fashion catwalk. Already, Nigeria has carved itself out as a haven for moviemakers; [...]
Apr 24, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: African fashion, African fashion week, Africaphile, Alek Wek, ARISE Magazine Fashion Week, Buki Akib, fashion trends, Lagos, London, Milan, New York City, Nigeria, Nollywood, Paris, Tiffany Amber, Tsemaye Binitie | Leave A Comment »
Just when we think our criminally short attention spans have altered the advertising ecosystem forever, this happens: During the Super Bowl, Chrysler screened a much-buzzed-about two-minute ad starring Clint Eastwood; during the Grammys, Chipotle aired a two-minute-and-20-second animated commercial. Then, on one ordinary Sunday night, Cartier takes to three networks to unleash a three-and-a-half-minute ad [...]
Apr 19, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Brainsnacks, Fashion, Marketing, Politics, Social Media, Trends | Tags: advertising trends, Barack Obama, Cartier, Chanel, Chipotle, Chrysler, documentaries, fashion trends, Grammys, H&M, long-form advertisement, marketing study, Miu Miu, online trends, political ads, Shalom Harlow, social media trends, Super Bowl, television advertising, Topshop, Vimeo, viral videos, YouTube, YouTube video | Leave A Comment »
Everyone loves their blue jeans, even the fashion elite. During the fall-winter 2012 showings at New York Fashion Week, dungarees from Levi Strauss, Hudson Jeans, 7 for All Mankind, Raleigh Denim and Rock & Republic held their own alongside the couture-clad. Levi’s hadn’t shown at New York Fashion Week since its 2007 collaboration with Damien [...]
Mar 29, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: 7 for All Mankind, blue jeans, Current/Elliot, Damien Hirst, denim trends, Diane von Furstenberg, fashion trends, Hudson Jeans, Levi Strauss, Levi's, Rock and Republic | Leave A Comment »
The biggest takeaway from New York Fashion Week came marching, not sashaying, out of Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. Military-inspired pieces could be found in numerous Fall 2012 collections—from Alexander Wang (who outfitted Gisele Bündchen in a buttoned-up-to-the-throat black leather trench coat) to Prabal Gurung (who had one of his PYTs in a cape and neoprene [...]
Mar 02, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: Alexander Wang, clothing, fashion trends, Gisele Bündchen, Jason Wu, Marc Jacobs, New York Fashion Week, Prabal Gurung, Rag & Bone, Tommy Hilfiger | Leave A Comment »
The tummy is in the midst of a comeback for Spring 2012, but these fashions have less in common with the tanned-and-toned Britney Spears–type midsection than they do with a demure 1950s-era bikini. If you’re more ab flab than ab fab, you’ll be relieved to see that the navel remains under wraps, with most designers [...]
Feb 20, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: abdomen, Ary Nuñez, bustier, clothes, clothing, Dolce & Gabbana, fashion trends, Helmut Lang, Miu Miu, muffin top, navel, Nina Ricci, pencil skirt, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Rihanna, Roberto Cavalli, Spring 2012 fashion | Leave A Comment »
When Pippa Middleton wore a flannel shirt, you must have known. Dude, grunge is back. The look caught fire, again, in America’s northwest and quickly appeared on street fashion blogs around the world—in the U.K., Montreal, Sydney (even India, for that matter). Harry Potter darling—and budding fashionista—Emma Watson showed up for her first day back [...]
Dec 23, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Trends | Tags: Doc Marten, fashion trends, grunge, millennials, Nevermind, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pippa Middleton, pop culture, shoes, Soundgarden | Leave A Comment »
After laying low for a couple of decades, the turtleneck is out of its shell and back on the streets (and runways) Stroll into a J.Crew this season and you’ll find tables splayed with turtlenecks of every sort. It’s true: This wardrobe workhorse has been reinvited into high fashion’s inner circle. Not only did Michael [...]
Nov 11, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Apple, Derek Lam, fashion trends, J. Crew, Michael Kors, Rag and Bone, Ralph Lauren, St. Croix, Steve Jobs, turtlenecks | Leave A Comment »
Soft Rock The utilitarian masculinity of ’90s grunge fashion is back—but sweeter this time When Pippa Middleton wore a flannel shirt, you must have known. Dude, grunge is back. The look caught fire, again, in America’s northwest and quickly appeared on street fashion blogs around the world—in the U.K., Montreal, Sydney (even India, for that [...]
Oct 28, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Doc Marten, fashion trends, grunge, millennials, Nevermind, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pippa Middleton, pop culture, shoes, Soundgarden | Leave A Comment »
The College Catwalk More and more college students are banishing sweatpants in favor of statement-making luxury labels That stereotype about the rumple-haired college student who rolls out of bed and into the classroom wearing sneakers and sweatpants is not ringing true these days. Especially along the tree-lined paths of Ivy League campuses, today’s university students [...]
Oct 24, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Abercrombie & Fitch, campus fashion, college, college fashion, college fashionista, college football, college football uniforms, cultural trends, fashion trends, Ivy League, university | Leave A Comment »
Word on the Street Street style has eclipsed the influence of celebrity style—yes, we said it In the ’90s actors and musicians replaced supermodels as the leading harbingers of style, but now an even more dramatic shift is underway among fashion’s hierarchy. With magnificent magazine-worthy photography, some top fashion bloggers and street-style photographers have become [...]
Oct 20, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Bill Cunningham, blogging, BlogHer, celebrity style, consumer marketing, consumer trends, Diane Kruger, diy fashion blogs, Fashion, fashion bloggers, fashion blogs, fashion trends, Harper’s Bazaar, Lucky magazine, Scott Schuman, she’sconnected, Sienna Miller, the Sartorialist | Leave A Comment »
Pursed for Success With more gadgets than two pockets can hold, some affluent males are toting bags that look an awful lot like women’s purses Man bags have become more socially acceptable, but it’s still a sore subject. Maybe that’s why so many names have been assigned to the modern man’s bag: the duffle, the [...]
Oct 18, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: Apple, Burberry, clothes, fashion trends, Gucci, handbags, iPad, laptop, Louis Vuitton, luxury trends, male fashion, man purse, murse, purse, smartphones, Technology, Terrence Howard, the duffle, the messenger, the portfolio case, the pouch, the satchel, the tote, Versace | Leave A Comment »
