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Milan Fashion Week opens with celebrity stardust, industry growth

Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi and Missoni are among Italy's top labels showing at Milan Fashion Week starting Wednesday, with the industry buoyed by bumper sales results despite war-fuelled economic uncertainty. American megastar Kim Kardashian is expected to bring some celebrity stardust at an event hosted by D&G to celebrate her Ciao Kim line,...

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Dolce & Gabbana to support Japanese designer Tomo Koizumi with Milan Fashion Week show

Italian luxury house Dolce & Gabbana have committed to supporting emerging Japanese designer Tomo Koizumi with a special project to show his collection during Milan Fashion Week in February. A catwalk presentation will be held in the company’s Milan headquarters, with the fashion duo celebrating their admiration for the work of the young...

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Dolce & Gabbana opens experiential festive pop-up in Covent Garden

Luxury house Dolce & Gabbana has unveiled an exclusive pop-up in London’s Covent Garden, in keeping with the estate’s wide-ranging festive experiences. The Italian brand is hosting a special ‘Holiday Market’ in the area that incorporates its Sicilian roots into the design through the use of colour and typical folklore symbols. Running until...

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Bottega Veneta stands out in a week of contrasts

Milan fashion week was a city of contrasts. There were debuts at Salvatore Ferragamo, Missoni, Bally and Etro, a seventy year anniversary at Moncler, and a sophomore landing at Bottega Veneta. At Ferragamo, the ‘Salvatore’ was dropped in favour of a more contemporary, if familiar logotype, under incoming designer Maximillian Davis. Shown on the...

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Kim Kardashian shows off Dolce & Gabbana collaboration at MFW

Adoring crowds gathered in Milan on Saturday to catch a glimpse of Kim Kardashian ahead of a showcase of her new collaboration with designer Dolce and Gabbana. The retro-heavy show during fashion week was announced with a flurry of publicity and social media interest. The backdrop was a black-and-white film of Kardashian, currently sporting a...

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Milan fashion week SS23 opens on an optimistic note

Chinese buyers are back and business is booming -- Milan Fashion Week opens Wednesday with a spring in its step, despite the shadows cast by the soaring cost of energy. Almost 70 catwalk shows and 110 presentations are scheduled over the next six days, featuring the giants of Italian fashion, from Gucci to Fendi, Prada, Versace, Armani, Dolce &...

Business

Digital fashion platform Sknups raises 3.5 million dollars

Digital fashion and beauty platform Sknups has announced it has secured 3.5 million dollars in pre-seed funding in a round led by fashion and Web3 innovators. The collectibles metaverse platform, which was founded back in 2020, works with a team to create couture 3D models made in a digital atelier, offering its community of collectors...

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Marketing fever pitch: Dolce & Gabbana host Kardashian wedding in Portofino

There was little surprise in what Kourtney Kardashian, the California-based reality persona taking Portofino by storm, was to wear on her big day. In a highly publicised wedding cum marketing campaign, the Kardashian-Jenner clan and entourage have been clothed in Italian fashion duo Dolce & Gabbana from arrival to departure. From the cushions...

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Dolce & Gabbana to take back control of beauty division

Italian luxury group Dolce & Gabbana is bringing its beauty business in-house following the end of its partnership with Japanese cosmetics group Shiseido. “We will be the first Italian fashion brand to manage the beauty category in-house,” Gianluca Toniolo, the operating chief executive of Dolce & Gabbana Beauty, told the Financial Times. Most...

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Dolce & Gabbana is latest luxury label to scrap fur

Dolce & Gabbana is the latest luxury label to scrap the use of fur in its products. The Italian fashion house announced Monday it is to discontinue the use of animal fur in all its collections starting in 2022. But it said it will continue to work with master furriers on a sustainable faux fur alternative that uses recycled and recyclable...

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Video: Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Men's Fashion Week

In this video, Italian luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has presented its FW22 collection at Milan Men's Fashion Week (MFW) featuring American rapper Machine Gun Kelly. Watch the video below. Video: Dolce & Gabbana via YouTube Photo credit: Dolce & Gabbana, Facebook

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Revenue benefits for brands designing for the metaverse

The fashion industry is quickly embracing the metaverse, with digital fashion and virtual commerce (v-commerce) a new channel for revenue. Users in the metaverse will be able to carry items like clothing, accessories, and home decor from one platform to another (for example, from the game world of Fortnite to Meta’s universe), says Forbes....