Fashion

The key shifts and emerging talent that are driving change within the fashion industry globally.

Trends : Micro Trends

Coterie Consumerism

By Josh Walker and Holly Friend 29 : 06 : 2021 Fashion : Retail : Youth

As e-commerce booms, Generation Z fashion brands are turning our digital habits into physical activations to make the shopping experience social again.

Autumn/Winter 2023: The Download:

From a diversity downturn to a theatrical-versus-commercial polarity, these are the key takeaways from fashion month for autumn/winter...

Fashion : Luxury : London Fashion Week

Chinese Outdoor Fashion Market:

Propelled by Covid, China's surging interest in local outdoor sports hints at new opportunities worth billions of yuan for the fashion...

China : Global Fashion And Style : Moncler

Safety Fits:

Merging functional gear with activism, emerging designers want to turn clothes into modern-day armour.

Fashion : Society : Technology

The collaborative future of fashion creatives:

Heralding an era of decentralised taste-making, fashion brands are exploring alternatives to the omnipotent creative director – from...

Fashion : Luxury : Retail

Heating up luxury fashion for Gen Z:

Heat co-founders Mario Maher and Joe Wilkinson explain how their mystery box concept taps into Gen Z mindsets, while offering a new way...

Luxury : Fashion : Youth

Laundry tech is reshaping circular fashion:

Wajahat Hussain and Richard Toon have created a solution to address the shrinking lifespan of garments. We discuss how Biorestore is...

Fashion : Sustainability : Technology

How to curb clothing consumption?:

Journalist, lecturer and sustainability adviser Olivia Pinnock explores the need for de-growth in the fashion industry.

Fashion : Sustainability : Society

Future Forecast 2023: Fashion:

From dystopian aesthetics and lab-based textile alternatives to the growth of resale platforms and monetised archives, we look ahead to...

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

How to create a fashion-forward metaverse:

With Brand New Vision, fashion veteran and entrepreneur Richard Hobbs is building a Web3 eco-system dedicated to fashion.

Fashion : Metaverse : Technology

Five luxury fashion brands advancing biotechnology:

Luxury fashion houses are increasingly recognising the potential of biotechnology and experimenting with bio-textiles for a more...

Fashion : Technology : Luxury

Teen Fashion Market:

Brands are re-imagining teen fashion with engaging activations spanning physical retail and the metaverse as the sector undergoes a...

Youth : Fashion : Retail

Doom Dressing:

Driven by a gathering mood of pessimism, a new dark, dystopian and eerie aesthetic is emerging, infused with satire and subversion.

Identity : Fashion : Climate Change

Resale Redux:

The resale market is enjoying a resurgence, taking on fast fashion as a (mostly) guilt-free alternative, and allowing younger consumers...

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Haute Couture Market:

New directions in the haute couture market reveal how the traditional sector is still at the forefront of fashion innovation and...

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

How fashion is tackling invasive species:

Aarav Chavda, co-founder and CEO of Inversa Leathers, explores how invasive species can enable fashion to rebalance and heal the planet.

Fashion : Leather : Sustainability

We must co-create to decolonise fashion:

Current sustainability initiatives are failing to decolonise the fashion and textiles industries. How can co-creation pave the way for...

Society : Fashion : Sustainability

Why brand futures lie in decolonising sustainability:

Moussa Mchangama, co-founder of sustainable and ethical consultancy In Futurum, discusses why sustainable action must be approached from...

Sustainability : Lifestyle : Fashion

Global Fashion Summit: forming fashion’s new alliances:

favour of planet-first, radical collaborations.

Fashion : Sustainability : Retail

Selfridges’ Andrew Keith on retail’s hyperphysical future:

The managing director of Selfridges examines the ways that retailers can create immersive, engaging and Hyperphysical Store experiences.

Retail : Stores : Department Stores

Sustainable Fashion Market: India:

Driven by glocal changemakers, India’s sustainable fashion market is growing rapidly – with a focus on circularity, heritage and innovation.

Fashion : Luxury : Sustainability

Streetwear Brokerages:

A series of new platforms are transforming fashion’s resale market into a bona fide investment arena, cementing garments as tradeable...

Fashion : Finance : Streetwear

Carbon Wears:

Emission-to-textile innovators are helping fashion brands to create new products while reducing the environmental impact of both the...

Fashion : Sustainability : Carbon

Second-life Bridal Market:

As a historically unsustainable category, the wedding sector is ushering in greener options to cater for brides’ increasingly...

Retail : Weddings : Bridal

Repurposed Roadwear:

Car brands are combining fashion and material innovation to promote sustainable practices in mobility’s green age – without sacrificing...

Mobility : Fashion : Sustainability

How fashion NFTs can spark eco-action:

Brad Morris, founder of digital fashion house MYAMI, shares how NFTs can be used as virtual tools for prompting environmental action.

Fashion : Metaverse : Climate

Convertible Clothing Market:

As the sustainable fashion landscape evolves, brands are experimenting with long-lasting garments that adapt, change or grow with wearers.

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

Unpacking luxury’s NFT and metaverse opportunity:

Daniella Loftus, a member of Red DAO, describes how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and digital goods can open new revenue streams and...

Luxury : Technology : NFTs

Gucci’s Robert Triefus on redefining luxury:

Gucci’s executive vice-president of brand and customer engagement discusses the inter-Covid lessons for luxury – and what The Five...

Luxury : Retail : Fashion

Eco-motional Fashion:

As climate anxieties abound, a new wave of change-makers are paving the way for a more positive, human-centric approach to sustainable...

Fashion : Sustainability : Sustainability Futures

Food’s Fashion Strategy:

Fashion is becoming a lucrative strategy for food, drink and dining brands, leading to new revenue streams, collaborations and...

Food : Fashion

Streetwear: are we buying the fuss or the fabric?:

The co-founders of nascent fashion brand Ballyhoo discuss why the future of hype lies in informed curation that fuses past, present and...

Fashion : Branding : Sustainability

Sneaker Hubs Market:

A new wave of online sneaker hubs is gaining traction by providing community, trust and independent perspectives beyond the original...

Fashion : Footwear : Resell

Five future paths for luxury collaborations:

Historical rivalries are being put aside as luxury firms embrace the benefits of working together, from authentication projects to...

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

Fashion Rental Market:

Fashion rental services are evolving to benefit brands and consumers, providing new revenue streams, peer-led style inspiration and...

Fashion

Galaxy’s live-stream app animates fashion resale:

Danny Quick, co-founder of retail app Galaxy, explains why live video selling will foster a community-led future for fashion resale.

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Coterie Consumerism:

As e-commerce booms, Generation Z fashion brands are turning our digital habits into physical activations to make the shopping...

Fashion : Retail : Youth

Eyewear Market:

After the shock of Covid-19, the eyewear market has its sights on enhancing physical retail, more inclusive optical designs and...

Fashion : Design : Intersectionality

Fashion Meta-networks:

Breaking away from oversaturated social media platforms, fashion communities are finding connection and inspiration in alternative...

Fashion : Technology : Metaverse

Barter Brands:

Inter-Covid, bartering is gathering pace, giving retail brands a chance to explore systems where customers trade items for access to...

Retail : Society : Payments

Accelerating African Fashion:

Cross-cultural collaborations and digital innovations are helping to advance African fashion on the global stage, while preserving local...

Africa : Fashion : Retail

Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer:

Jen Charon, co-founder of Loanhood, explains why local communities and peer-to-peer interactions will drive the future of fashion rental.

Fashion : Retail : Sustainability

Interactive Eco-labels:

To inspire greener behaviour among customers, fashion brands are elevating their product labels to promote transparency and product...

Fashion : Sustainability : Retail

Adaptive Fashion Market:

Fashion brands are addressing the sector’s ableist design history, tackling representation, wearability and material innovation for a...

Fashion : Retail : Inclusivity

Four innovators shaping bio-positive fashion:

Sustainability demands are pushing forward material innovation in the fashion sector, resulting in a series of smarter processes, from...

Fashion : Retail : Material

Dematerialising fashion:

Marjorie Hernandez de Vogelsteller, co-founder of The Dematerialised, examines the future of clothing and the potential for digital...

Fashion : Retail : Digital Fashion

Fashion 2030: Hacked, tracked and rationed:

As fashion counts the cost of its planetary impact, we future-gaze to 2030 and posit an era when fast fashion is not only traced – it’s...

Fashion : Technology : Sustainability

MetaFactory creates internet-owned brands:

Drew Harding and Hammad Jutt, co-founders of MetaFactory, discuss how cryptoculture and decentralised brand economies are redefining retail.

Retail : Cryptocurrency : Fashion

Second-hand Brands:

Brands are taking back control of their second-hand stock and launching dedicated platforms and spaces to sell pre-owned products.

Retail : Resale : Fashion

How The Yes is re-imagining algorithmic retail:

Julie Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of The Yes, explains her vision for intelligent e-commerce and the importance of curated online...

Retail : Media And Entertainment : Fashion

Deadstock Designers:

As the pandemic leaves fashion brands with a glut of unsold apparel, designers are shifting focus to dead stock and agile new waste...

Fashion : Retail : Design

DIY Dressing Market:

With sustainability increasingly front of mind, consumers are getting creative with their clothing and opting for DIY fashion over new...

Fashion : Sustainability

Anti-viral fabric for the inter-Covid era:

IFTNA (Intelligent Fabric Technologies North America) creates anti-viral textile solutions. Giancarlo Beevis, CEO, discusses the...

Fashion : Materials : Covid-19

Agile Artisans:

Revealing a more resilient business model, ethical fashion and homeware brands are supporting their artisan suppliers during the...

Fashion : Homeware : Retail

Epidemic Retail Futures:

How will retailers in 2025 cater for future viral outbreaks and enable consumers to move effortlessly in and out of lockdown periods?

Inter-covid : Scenario : Retail

Raw and real: a new era for influencer marketing:

A migration towards smaller influencers more deeply in touch with their audiences will shape how brands work in the years ahead.

Retail : Covid-19 : Feedback Frontiers

Studio Stores:

Faced with declining footfall and fallout from coronavirus, retailers are reclaiming their stores as multimedia hubs for content creation.

Retail : Media : E-commerce

In-game fashion:

The synergy between fashion and gaming is swelling as designers and brands produce garments for wearing in-game and IRL.

Gaming : Fashion : Media

The digital future of Fashion Weeks:

The impact of Covid-19 and growing climate concerns are pushing luxury and fashion brands to technology that digitises the runway and...

Fashion : Luxury : Retail

Feedback Frontiers:

As communications with consumers become more circular and conversational, brands are treating every micro-interaction as a valuable...

Retail : E-commerce : Digital

Voyage Apparel:

Clothing and accessories brands are catering for Liberated Luxurians with new collections and services for ever-more peripatetic...

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Pollution Apparel:

Leading creatives are using water pollution as a resource to highlight unsustainable production practices in the fashion industry and...

Fashion : Apparel : Sustainability

Refashioning charity retail:

Julie Neeve, project manager of new store formats at Oxfam, on the perks of housing the charity’s new superstore on an Oxford industrial...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Fast Fashion Rental:

Clothing rental is moving from high-end fashion to the high street, creating new paths to discovery and access for trend-conscious...

Retail : Fashion : Retail Technology

Microbes will make manufacturing transparent:

Dr Jessica Green, CEO and co-founder of Phylagen, on using microbiomes to verify brands’ ethical manufacturing practices.

Fashion : Supply Chain : Transparency

Instagram isn’t the space for sustainable fashion:

As more brands strive to be sustainable, it’s time to re-think social platforms that promote incessant newness and instant in-app...

Sustainability : Fashion : Instagram

Future-proofing India’s organic cotton farmers:

Sustainability adviser Derek Sabori and Volcom chief marketing officer Ryan Immegart on the brand’s traceable organic cotton initiative...

Fashion : Sports : Sustainability

Gaming Garments Market:

Esports and gaming culture are infiltrating the world of fashion, with inspiring brand collaborations and innovation in performance wear.

Fashion : Esports : Leisure

Automated Apparel:

The next generation of connected clothing will use artificial intelligence to react and recalibrate, catering for continually changing...

Fashion : Wellness : AI

Sustainable Footwear Market:

Following in the footsteps of fashion, the shoe industry is embracing sustainability, not only through materials and assembly, but also...

Fashion : Footwear : Sustainability

Related to Fashion

News

Hublot reveals icy mountain clock in the Alps

Hublot and Daniel Arsham have created a striking 20-metre wide sundial in the Alps to celebrate the connection between watchmaking, art and time.

Luxury : Fashion : Design

News

Vivrelle opens exclusive designer closet to Four Seasons guests

Vivrelle, a membership club offering access to a closet of designer accessories, has announced a new partnership with Four Seasons Hotel Houston and Four Seasons Private Residences Los Angeles.

Travel & Hospitality : Fashion : Retail

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators : March

We look at 10 more innovators to watch as part of our Futures 100 Awards, which highlight those brands, businesses and individuals innovating for a better future.

Futures 100 Innovators : F100 : Beauty

News

2 Speed Biking magazine combines fashion and motorcycles

A new coffee table magazine, 2 Speed Biking, aims to highlight motorcycle culture from a fresh and glamorous point of view.

Mobility : Youth : Fashion

News

Ashaya creates recycled sunglasses from waste crisp bags

Pune-based social enterprise Ashaya has launched the world’s first pair of sunglasses made entirely out of recycled packets of crisps.

Sustainability : Fashion : Technology

News

Rolls-Royce unveils haute couture car with Iris van Herpen

Merging automotive with haute couture, the uber-luxurious Phantom Syntopia was born from a four-year collaboration process between Rolls-Royce and Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen.

Luxury : Fashion : Mobility

News

Ebay to host sneaker swap pop-up in London

Online marketplace eBay has announced it is opening a first-of-its-kind pop-up sneaker swap shop in London.

Fashion : Sustainability : Retail

News

Savage X Fenty partners with Fit:Match for tech-powered fittings

Lingerie brand Savage x Fenty has partnered with digital twin platform Fit:Match and Intel to launch a new tech-powered fitting room experience.

Fashion : Technology : Retail

Markets

State of Luxury: Post-lockdown China

After contracting in 2022, the most promising market for luxury goods is expected to recuperate quickly while setting new standards across the industry.

Luxury : China : Beijing

News

Jacquemus takes over Paris department store

French fashion brand Jacquemus has been given free rein over the iconic Galeries Lafayette Haussmann department store in Paris to showcase its latest collection.

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

News

Puma and Rhuigi is a slice of New York

Puma and designer Rhuigi Villaseñor have just unveiled the second part of their capsule collection inspired by New York and modelled by a diverse cast of everyday New Yorkers.

Fashion : Youth : Luxury

News

Fabletics unveils activewear-inspired scrubs

Activewear brand Fabletics is applying its expertise in performance wear in the medical apparel market.

Fashion : Health & Wellness : Society

News

Digital African fashion is coming to The Witcher and Minecraft

A new campaign by Orange spotlights the lack of cultural representation in gaming and introduces a new variety of avatar skins honouring under-represented regions.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Fashion

News

Stat: GCC’s spending power on fashion hints at female cultural shift

A new report by The Business of Fashion Insights reveals that 50% of high earners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia spend more than £830 ($1,000, €938) a month on average on fashion.

Fashion : Youth : Retail

News

New airbag jeans provide discreet protection for motorcyclists

Although at first glance Mo’cycle’s trousers look like regular jeans, once activated, the breakthrough garment can inflate like an airbag to protect the wearer in case of an accident.

Mobility : Fashion : Technology

You have 3 free News articles remaining. Sign up to LS:N Global to get unlimited access to all articles.

Discover Our Memberships Sign in

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to enable the use of our platform’s paid features and to analyse our traffic. No personal data, including your IP address, is stored and we do not sell data to third parties.

Learn more

Fashion

Coterie Consumerism

WANT TO READ MORE?

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

Most Recent

Danse Macabre:

Brand Innovation Debrief: Hæckels:

Futures 100 Innovators : March:

Chinese Outdoor Fashion Market:

Autumn/Winter 2023: The Download:

Not your parents’ car:

Work States Futures Preview On Demand:

Alternative Seafood Market:

She is Mother:

Wearables: the at-home doctor:

Future Airport Commerce:

State of Luxury: Post-lockdown China:

Lunar Landers:

Browsing The Future of Bookshops:

Addressing Chinese Beauty Consumer Myths in 2023:

Autumn/Winter 2023: The Download:

Chinese Outdoor Fashion Market:

Safety Fits:

The collaborative future of fashion creatives:

Heating up luxury fashion for Gen Z:

Laundry tech is reshaping circular fashion:

How to curb clothing consumption?:

Future Forecast 2023: Fashion:

How to create a fashion-forward metaverse:

Five luxury fashion brands advancing biotechnology:

Teen Fashion Market:

Doom Dressing:

Resale Redux:

Haute Couture Market:

How fashion is tackling invasive species:

We must co-create to decolonise fashion:

Why brand futures lie in decolonising sustainability:

Global Fashion Summit: forming fashion’s new alliances:

Selfridges’ Andrew Keith on retail’s hyperphysical future:

Sustainable Fashion Market: India:

Streetwear Brokerages:

Carbon Wears:

Second-life Bridal Market:

Repurposed Roadwear:

How fashion NFTs can spark eco-action:

Convertible Clothing Market:

Unpacking luxury’s NFT and metaverse opportunity:

Gucci’s Robert Triefus on redefining luxury:

Eco-motional Fashion:

Food’s Fashion Strategy:

Streetwear: are we buying the fuss or the fabric?:

Sneaker Hubs Market:

Five future paths for luxury collaborations:

Fashion Rental Market:

Galaxy’s live-stream app animates fashion resale:

Coterie Consumerism:

Eyewear Market:

Fashion Meta-networks:

Barter Brands:

Accelerating African Fashion:

Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer:

Interactive Eco-labels:

Adaptive Fashion Market:

Four innovators shaping bio-positive fashion:

Dematerialising fashion:

Fashion 2030: Hacked, tracked and rationed:

MetaFactory creates internet-owned brands:

Second-hand Brands:

How The Yes is re-imagining algorithmic retail:

Deadstock Designers:

DIY Dressing Market:

Anti-viral fabric for the inter-Covid era:

Agile Artisans:

Epidemic Retail Futures:

Raw and real: a new era for influencer marketing:

Studio Stores:

In-game fashion:

The digital future of Fashion Weeks:

Feedback Frontiers:

Voyage Apparel: