Aeropostale has lost ground when it comes to youth culture markets, and as we’ve reported in our Youth Culture Studies, has been replaced by various brands that are far more in tune with this demographic than the $2.4 billion chain store/brand has been in the past couple of years. In their latest revamp, the brand/store […]
The rise of mobile gaming via fashion styling of virtual avatars has flipped the script for the fashion industry and provided a growing cross-over platform for tech, video gaming, mobile phone culture, and fashion. The latest in this space is Rachel Zoe’s social gaming company called Crowdstar which is launching a mobile fashion game called […]
Photos by Tom Wallace Widely known as America’s youth culture rite-of-passage to music entertainment, the Vans Warped Tour is rolling across the country for the 19th year in a row, attracting more than 500,000 young people during the 40-event tour. Kevin Lyman, the founder and producer, and his team, along with icon Steve Van Doren, […]
There have been many great ideas in the past few years with fashion moving online, including trade shows, that have been generating considerable start-up capital. Two of those, Rent The Runway and Go Try It On, have just joined forces. Rent The Runway, which offers up designer clothing and accessories for low-cost rental for 4 days […]
Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were convicted today, June 19, 2013 of tax evasion for hiding $1.3 billion and given a suspended jail sentence of one year and 8 months. This came through after the second time they’ve been brought to court. The first resulted in the designers being charged a $440 […]
Bonnaroo has become one of the most popular festivals in the world bringing this year, June 14-16, 2013 more than 80,000 fans to a 700-acre plot of land in the middle of Tennessee. For 3 days, a new city emerges featuring stages of all sizes, a diverse line-up of musicians, the Bonnaroo Cinema, recycling and […]
Sustainable Brands 2013 Conference which wrapped-up June 6th in San Diego, CA, brought together some of the top industry leaders in sustainability. With presentations ranging from ours at Label Network on “Sustainability and the State of the Future and Youth Culture,” to the keynote address by author, architect, and sustainability leader William McDonough, the week […]
We’re moving into fashion trade show season and many are announcing various changes to their plans for upcoming shows ranging from new brands on board, to conference programs, to entry eligibility. First, Bread & Butter in Berlin, which takes place from July 2-4, 2013 with the theme “Connect” has changed their entrance policy in order […]
One of the most popular aspects of our Sustainability and Youth Culture presentation called “The Generation of Hope” at the Sustainable Brands 13 Conference in San Diego, CA on June 3, was around the shifts in youth preferences, awareness, and influences in eco-friendly fashion, changes in thrift store buying patterns, and the power of spending […]
Apparently, just when you think things couldn’t get worse for the beleaguered surf brand, it did. On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Billabong’s potential sales to either Altamont Capital or Sycamore Partners closed, and trading started up again. But the news that the sales negotiations for changes in overall control had ended meant even lower market […]