Prada spring/summer 2016
Today in luxury marketing:
Richemont results show luxury world’s slowdown
For luxury goods brands, the current fiscal year is set to end with a whimper, judging from the rough start to the second half witnessed by Compagnie Financière Richemont, reports Women’s Wear Daily.
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Inside Miuccia Prada’s process
The seed for Prada’s latest resort and men’s collection was sown when Miuccia Prada—the indefatigable woman who puts her stamp on everything Prada produces, from its color-uncoordinated collections to the paper cupcake doilies in her new art foundation’s retro Italian café—called her design director, Fabio Zambernardi, and said, “T-shirt,” Wall Street Journal Magazine reports.
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Raf Simons speaks to Cathy Horyn on the speed of fashion
Days after Horyn and Simons last spoke came the announcement that the Belgian designer had chosen to leave the house of Dior, citing “personal reasons.” In this exclusive excerpt of their conversation, Simons speaks about the changing pace of fashion and provides an intimate portrait of a man questioning his situation, his life and his future, per Business of Fashion.
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Who is the woman behind the Lanvin furore?
On Oct. 28 Alber Elbaz announced he would be parting ways with Lanvin, the house over which he had presided as creative director for fourteen years. In the wake of the announcement that Raf Simons had resigned from his position as creative director of Christian Dior, it seemed that fashion’s relentless merry-go-round had claimed another victim. But this was not a personal decision on the part of Elbaz, as Simons’s had been. The split, according to a statement released by Elbaz, was “the decision of the company’s majority shareholder”: Shaw-Lan Wang, reports British Vogue.
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