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Next in Fashion: Luxury brands in the Metaverse
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Virtual fashion might sound like science fiction, but it has become an impending reality. As more and more of our lives are spent living in digital spaces on the Internet, the boundaries between what’s called real and what’s not are blurring. For fashion and beauty brands, the race to the metaverse has begun. You might […]
Netflix and the Fashion Industry: How TV series influence trends, collections, and marketing strategies.
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If I asked you where you saw that bright yellow set of fluttery silk skirt and top, you would probably think of Emily in Paris, walking merrily around the streets of Paris, and not about danish designer Ganni. Honestly, I’ll wear sackcloth for a minute and candidly admit I didn’t even know about the brand […]
#LBSSguestwriters: Laws on copycats for designer brands
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Have you ever window shopped in fast-fashion stores thinking that some of their pieces look very similar to some famous luxury brand pieces? Well, it is called copycatting and it is here to stay. Let me be clear about this: copycats are not counterfeits. Copycats, unlike counterfeits, do not imitate the original piece with intent […]
The EV Market
Posted on“A few years ago you could barely see an electric car at the Frankfurt Auto Show. If you walked around talking about EVs, everybody assumed you were smoking something”, said Shai Agassi, environmental entrepreneur. In the past decade the global electric vehicle market has taken a huge leap forward and is growing faster than you […]
The Porsche series: Porsche: past, present and future
Posted onHISTORY Porsche, the sports car giant we all know and love, has some very surprising beginnings. In 1931, a 55 year old automotive engineer by the name of Ferdinand Porsche founded a small automotive design shop with his son-in-law and a young businessman. “Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH”, as it was known back […]
Futuristic cities: Akon, Masdar and The Line
Posted onCurrently, Earth is home to over 7.4 billion people, with half of those living in urban settings and using 80% of the planet’s resources. By 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach 9.8 billion, with 70% of that population expected to live in urban areas. The main challenge that every city is facing is […]
When does luxury cross the line? The Vessel explained
Posted onThe Vessel is a $150 million structure in the heart of New York’s Hudson Yards. Designed by Thomas Heaterwhick, it has 154 interconnected stairways and is labeled as a public benefit, whilst simultaneously hypocritically driving up the prices of the apartments in the surrounding buildings. Nicknamed “the colossal shawarma” and a “mythical giant’s wastepaper basket” […]
Cannes Yachting Festival 2021
Posted onIn the span of four days, from the sixth to the eleventh of September 2021, Cannes hosted one of the biggest boating shows in France. On the Côte d’Azur, the festival brought together people from all over the world, succeeding in breaking the attendance record it set in 2019. All of the well-known yachting brands, […]
Soho House
Posted onThe name Soho house is definitely no coincidence. It refers to the founding location of the first Soho House in the Soho neighbourhood of London, more precisely on 40 Greek Street, in a vacant space above founder Nick Jones’s French Restaurant “Boheme”. When the premises became vacant in 1995, Jones seized the opportunity to start […]