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Meet Maqu: Sustainable Peruvian label aiding childhood education

Buenos Aires – Maqu is a Peruvian sustainable fashion brand originally established in Berlin. Its DNA is based on nature and works under guidelines of social responsibility and carries out initiatives for the education of children in the Andes of Peru. The brand was founded in 2016 by the Peruvian Marisa Fuentes Prado. It proposes a fully...

Podcast

Podcast: CEO of Mytheresa on competing for luxury shoppers

In this episode of the Glossy Podcast, the CEO of Mytheresa, Michael Kliger, has discussed competing for luxury shoppers and the online retailer's customer first approach. Other topics that were talked about were its expansion into menswear, and on becoming more sustainable. Listen to the podcast below. Source: The Glossy Podcast via Megaphone...

Fashion

Lidl has relaunched its ultra cheap 12,99 euro sneaker

It was always going to fly off the shelves, a colourful sneaker with a nod to retro fashion and an insanely cheap price tag of 12,99 euros. After a successful roll-out last summer, the sneakers are back in store and online. Except in the UK, where the trainers have not (yet) been made available. Following their sell-out launch last July and...

Fashion

Allbirds releases open source carbon footprint calculator

Allbirds has released an open-source tool for fashion brands to calculate their carbon footprint. In a statement on its website the San Francisco-based footwear B Corp said it is aware “sharing proprietary information might not make the most business sense. But the global climate crisis is bigger than business. And if competition got us into...

Fashion

Phoebe Waller-Bridge to auction Golden Globes suit for Australia fire relief

Awards season is always a time for celebrities and other prominent members of the entertainment industry to use their platforms to bring awareness towards specific causes, and the 2020 Golden Globe Awards ceremony—which marks the beginning of the awards ceremony circuit—was no exception. And while Golden Globe recipients took the opportunity of...