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HEAD Fashion Show 2025: Matil Vanlint emerges as a designer to watch

HEAD Geneve in Switzerland may be a relevantly young fashion school, when compared to other institutions across the UK and Europe, as it was created in 2006 from the merger of two prestigious schools, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Haute École d’Arts Appliqués, but its annual graduate showcase for its Bachelor and Master's fashion...

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Graduate Fashion Foundation launches circularity masterclass programme with Zalando

The Graduate Fashion Foundation, the UK charitable organisation that bridges the gap between graduation and employment and runs Graduate Fashion Week, is teaming up with European online retailer Zalando to offer circularity masterclasses for 2025/26. The circularity masterclass is a five-part online educational platform that 11 European and UK...

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Ravensbourne University launches executive programme focused on experiential luxury

Ravensbourne University London, together with the academic platform In Pursuit of Luxury (IPOL), has announced a new executive education course designed to explore how craftsmanship, culture and innovation shape today’s luxury industry. The Certificate in Experiential Luxury is structured around three intensive modules held in London, Zurich and...

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Design Academy Eindhoven's Trans Realities Lab relocates to high tech campus Eindhoven

Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) confirmed that its Trans Realities Lab (TRL) would relocate to High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE), establishing a long-term base from 2026. The new location includes a research lab equipped with XR, motion capture, virtual production and immersive media tools, along with office space in building HTC 37. The move was...

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Ashlynn Park named CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner

Ashlynn Park, the designer behind the New York brand Ashlyn, has been named the winner of this year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund (CVFF). The announcement was made at a dedicated dinner celebrating the initiative, hosted by Isha Ambani, Zac Posen, Anna Wintour and Chloe Malle. Park will receive a monetary award of 300,000 dollars. The two runners-up...

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Ied students showcase at Fashion Graduate Italia 2025

Ied students showcased their collections in Milan today, opening Fashion Graduate Italia. The event, which runs until October 30, is organised by Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda. This third-sector body is a hub that brings together Italian post-graduate institutions and academies in the fashion sector. It is sponsored by the Lombardy Region...

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Top five finalists announced for NRF Foundation Next Generation Scholarship

The NRF Foundation has named the five finalists for its annual Next Generation Scholarship, an initiative that recognizes outstanding undergraduate students pursuing careers in retail. Since its launch in 2014, the program has awarded more than 800,000 US dollars to support future retail leaders. This year’s finalists are Shayma Banks (Columbia...

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The unexpected challenge sneaker design students face today: "They need to know so much"

When Wilson Smith III, former Design Director at Nike Footwear, left the sportswear giant in January 2025 after an impressive 41-year tenure, he was struck with an immediate and unexpected realization: "How do I present myself or connect myself to the world now?" During his four-decade career at Nike, the company's PR and communications team had...

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LVMH's Institut des Métiers d’Excellence: Training the next generation of artisans

At LVMH, the Institut des Métiers d’Excellence trains a new generation of artisans, creators and client experts in rare skills. These are for professions with strong employment prospects. An interview with Marion Bardet, director of Métiers d’Excellence at LVMH. What do these 'métiers d’excellence' cover? Our mission is to promote, enhance and...

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Over 4,500 jobs offered in Métiers d’Excellence in 2025, says LVMH's Marion Bardet

At LVMH, the Institut des Métiers d’Excellence (IME) trains a new generation of artisans, creators and client experts in rare skills for high-demand professions. In an interview with FashionUnited, Marion Bardet, director of Métiers d’Excellence at LVMH, shares how these luxury training programmes are bolstering unknown professions, shaping...

Culture

In Pictures: André Leon Talley exhibition opens in SCAD museums

The late US journalist and fashion icon André Leon Talley is now the subject of an exhibition at museums associated with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). The life and achievements of the acclaimed fashion figure, who passed away in 2023, will be honoured among SCAD locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in Lacoste,...

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Fashion|Interview

Wilson Smith & Tate Kuerbis, and the rise of sneakers as cultural currency

Close your eyes and try to picture this scene. It’s 1986, at Nike head office in Washington County, Oregon and architect Wilson Smith III, who has been working with Nike as a showroom, store and corporate office designer has just been asked if he can come to the back room for a talk. “I went in expecting the worst,” he recalls to FashionUnited...