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The designer, that keeps believing in “product above all”, is one of the last survivors of the Golden era of Spanish design.

The executive has worked for Alibaba for four years and had previously worked at Google. Mei Chen talks about the challenges that fashion companies have to enter the Chinese market.

Pinko’s CEO explains that the company is in the middle of a restructuration plan that involves 80% of its management team and it’s not planning to enter any new market.

The CEO of Parfois, with a long career in companies like Tous or El Corte Inglés, analyzed yesterday in the Spanish Congress of Shopping Centers the evolution of retail and fashion business.

Portugal has become one of the main production hubs in proximity for big european fashion companies.

Authenticity, scarcity, democracy, affordability and linking the online and offline strategy, are the keys that the consultant PwC gives to remain profitable in the urban fashion market.

The Swedish ambassador in Spain explains how his country implemented a sustainable economic development policy twenty years ago and that has allowed it to maintain a “relatively high” growth.

Paris, London, Mexico City or Hong Kong are some of the cities that have launched an urban plan to pedestrianize their high-end streets.

Brands are diversifying their offers to give the client not only garments but a 360 degrees’ experience.

Vulgarity, ugliness, popular culture. Gvasalia is the voice of a new generation to which the old codes of luxury no longer sound familiar.

Burberry, Hugo Boss and Kering were also among the best-in-class performers in this matter within the fashion sector.

Sardá passed away in Barcelona at the age of ninety years old. The designer gave at the beggining of the century the creative direction of his brand to his daughter Nuria.

The latest fashion disruptive phenomenon moves fast boosted by changing consumption habits with the support of venture capital and, sometimes, the stock exchange.

More transparency, collaborating with other brands or education are some of the requisites that the consultant Euromonitor lists in its last report about how to become more sustainable.

In the middle of the civil protest, companies move between highs and lows in the Hong Kong Market. Sephora opens its first store after it closed it last flagship in the city and Chanel postpones its cruise collection show.

Ecosystems, local operators but scalable, regional companies with a deep custom relationship and hitchhikers are the five models proposed by Bain&Co consultant.

Mercado de Diseño, Palo Alto or White Summer gather every year more than 100,000 people and emerging brands are looking for the opportunity to show off their products. Its difficulty? The ability of escalating and the challenge to remain new.

The Spanish company, one of the world’s leaders in denim, will continue to be led by Carlos Ortega. The company is in the middle of a reorientation of its business and just refinanced its debt.

The British luxury group has launched a new chat in its app. The service, available by invitation only, allows clients to purchase through an Apple Pay agreement.

Oliva Palermo will launch her ecommerce platform on September 3rd. The influencer doesn’t rule out the possibility of launching her own brand in the future.

Despite being small brands, they have been able to make enough noise to be noticed by the industry and the consumer. And not only this, nowadays, in the middle of the “go green or go home” movement, this companies are in the top of the rankings to inspire change.

The agreement signed by 32 fashion giants to establish guidelines for sustainability in the fashion sector, will determine the following steps of the industry.

After signing with the Ellen McCarthur Foundation, the agreement New Plastics Economy and the CEO Agenda, the sector now adds a new program to its to do list to work towards sustainability.

More than twenty fashion and luxury giants confirmed their attendance to the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France to create a path towards a more sustainable industry.

After three decades on the low, the industry started reassembling and picks up its pieces to face a new era of sustainability and digitalization. Industry picks up its pieces after the fall, to face a new era or sustainability and digitalization. The brake out that came after the financial crisis ended up with the closure of companies that where already crashed after two decades of the delocalization of manufacturing. Closures continued during the economical crisis, as well as restructurations and acquisitions. With this last move, the industry put a stop of three decades on the low.

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