Monthly Archives: April 2025

SHEIN RETURNS AS OFFICIAL FASHION SPONSOR AT STAGECOACH

Giddy up in Style—Your Festival Look Is Ready to Ride! LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SHEIN, the popular global fashion and lifestyle online retailer, is thrilled to announce its return as fashion sponsor for the fourth consecutive year at Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival. The festival will take place from Friday, April 25, to […]

How Brands Adapt to Consumer Demands

Historically, the fashion industry—and its retail counterparts—has been more inclined to listen to its customers than Congress when it comes to charting a course, according to global end-to-end returns management solution provider ReturnBear. “The real driving force behind sustainability in retail isn’t the White House; it’s the consumer,” said Katherine Lehman, ReturnBear’s chief marketing officer. […]

Auralee, the Japanese fashion brand for design purists

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. When the Japanese designer Ryota Iwai, 41, founded his clothing brand Auralee in 2015, he didn’t intend it to end up on a catwalk. “My idea was to make customers notice the distinctiveness of our clothes just by […]

Clothing rental companies are a sustainable answer to fast fashion, so why do they rarely work?

ADVERTISEMENT Renting clothes can reduce the fashion industry’s hefty environmental impact, but so far, business models for the practice have not worked very well. A recently published study led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has delved into what measures can make clothing rental a success. The researchers hope their findings will have […]

It’s Been a Minute : NPR

How will the tariffs impact the fashion industry? Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Getty Images How will the tariffs impact the fashion industry? Getty Images At the beginning of the year, Brittany spoke to ELLE Fashion Features Director and author, Véronique Hyland, about the growing trend of underconsumption content online. No-Buy January, buying secondhand, […]

Woman’s Ghibli-Style Makeover Goes Wrong. She Gets A Third Hand

New Delhi: The internet has found its latest obsession: the Ghibli trend. Thanks to OpenAI’s newest image-generation tool, social media users, including celebrities and politicians, are transforming their pictures into dreamy, Studio Ghibli-style animations. For one woman, though, the trend took an unexpected turn when ChatGPT gave her an extra hand. She initially uploaded a […]

Kanye West and his 5 fashion statements that sparked debate across social media

Kanye West, the controversial rapper, has been charting the headlines for getting backlash – again. In a recent interview with DJ Akademiks, he wore a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hood and a Swastika Necklace. Previously this year, West made anti-Semitic posts, and identified himself as a Nazi. Not only has he been called out for […]