Login to Mintel Reports - Mintel Group Ltd. Login to Mintel Reports - Mintel Group Ltd. Birmingham City University - Sign In. Login to Mintel Reports - Mintel Group Ltd. Purchasing Journey for Fashion - UK - June 2019 - Market Research Report. This report investigates the process of researching and buying fashion products in the UK, with a focus on the consumer journey to the purchase, both online and offline.
It examines the channels that UK consumers prefer to use at each stage of the fashion purchasing process, including how different channels are linked. Meet Leon Dame, The Model Everyone Is Talking About This Paris Fashion Week. When John Galliano selected the person who would close his Maison Margiela show at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday afternoon, it wasn’t one of the top girls you might expect.
Instead, Leon Dame – a 20-year-old male model from Berlin – stole the attention (and the hearts) of everyone in the Grand Palais, sashaying up a storm in sky-high black patent leather boots, a black faux leather utility jacket, and little else. So inspired was Dame’s march-like strut that for the rest of the day, the number of videos of him on Instagram practically rivalled the flood of clips of Jennifer Lopez’s turn at Versace in Milan last Friday. What everyone wanted to know was this: who was the angelic-looking kid who sashayed down Galliano’s runway with such confidence, fiercely eyeing up Vogue editors as he turned his head mid-prance?
“I was scouted waiting for the bus back home,” Dame tells British Vogue. Girl Gangs Are Trending On The Catwalks This Season. 7 Models Open Up About Discrimination and Tokenism. Kate Spade New York's Spring Collection Featured Insta-Influencers and House Plants. Diversity and inclusion is a never ending topic of discussion within the fashion industry.
How does a brand successfully include and market to all types of women without veering into tokenism territory? How One Designer Candidly Captured Gisele Bündchen, Shalom Harlow, and More During a ’90s-Era New York Fashion Week. Models concerned about CGI influencers who look like real people - Insider. Computer-generated models and influencers have been materializing on social media over the last few years.Cameron-James Wilson is responsible for seven of them, which he created for his digital modeling agency The Diigitals.Shudu, who he calls the world's first digital supermodel, was inspired by his Princess of South Africa Barbie doll.People in the fashion and marketing industries are concerned that CGI models could be used to promote unhealthy body images, or take work away from real living models.But increasingly accessible CGI technology also opens up exciting avenues for 3D artists in the ever-changing fashion industry.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
Cameron-James Wilson's biggest inspiration when designing Shudu, the world's first digital supermodel, was his Princess of South Africa Barbie. "I was just following what I loved," he told Insider. "I wasn't thinking of the impact it would have. " "It was all kind of organic," Wilson said. Shudu.gram "OMG I am so shocked! " Model Adwoa Aboah Opens Up About Skin & Acne Struggles on Instagram. Adwoa Aboah has consistently worked to encourage positivity among others in the fashion industry, and around the world.
As the founder of Gurls Talk, an online community that encourages open discussions on topics ranging from sexuality to body image, Aboah has frequently shared her own experiences with mental health and healing, and this month, she’s using her Instagram as a way of discussing acne struggles. How '90s Supermodels Paid Tribute to Photographer Peter Lindbergh. Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images Esteemed fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh died in Paris yesterday.
He was 74 years old.Lindbergh's work with models like Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford shaped contemporary fashion's vision of supermodels.Models have taken to social media to pay tribute to the iconic photographer. There is a good chance that if you're looking at a photo of a supermodel during the height of the '90s, you're looking at the handiwork of Peter Lindbergh. The fashion photographer, who revolutionized contemporary fashion's understanding of the supermodel, died in Paris yesterday. He was 74 years old. Models Speak Out on Poor Conditions. LONDON, United Kingdom — At the end of a powerful talk at BoF’s VOICES gathering in December, casting director James Scully offered an ultimatum: if he continued to see evidence of the bullying, cruelty and discrimination rife in fashion's modelling industry, he promised to name and shame the perpetrators publicly on social media.
During Paris Fashion Week, true to his word, Scully became fashion's whistle-blower, taking to Instagram to accuse Balenciaga casting directors Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes of abusive behaviour. But following a fashion month dominated by allegations of the mistreatment of models, one voice has gone largely unheard: that of the models themselves. Now, Models.com has published a survey asking models a simple question: “How do you, the model, want to be treated?” Poor working conditions. Two fashion photographers are being accused of sexual misconduct. The #MeToo movement may have brought down Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, but for the most part, fashion made it out unscathed.
Over the last few days, though, two further photographers have been hit with a series of allegations: Marcus Hyde and Timur Emek. BBC iPlayer - Breaking Fashion - Series 1: 1. Lorna Luxe. In The Style to launch BBC documentary. The six-part behind-the-scenes series will air on BBC One and BBC Three this September and will show the day-to-day workings of In The Style, from new launches to events, including founder Adam Frisby’s panel talk at Drapers Digital Festival earlier this year.
Frisby said: ”I agreed to do the show after months of back and forth debating whether it was the best thing to do for the business. I’m looking forward to the public seeing behind the scenes of our HQ alongside the hard work and effort myself, my team and the influencers/celebs put into everything. “I also hope that my story of how I started the business and make my decisions is something that will encourage people out there to follow their dreams, and give what they’re passionate about a go.” Frisby launched the business in 2013 from his bedroom with just £1,000 in savings. The brand secured investment from private equity firm Livingbridge in May 2017 and now operates from a 30,000 sq ft office in Salford.
Birmingham City University - Sign In. Login to Mintel Reports - Mintel Group Ltd. Birmingham City University - Sign In. Birmingham City University - Sign In. How Supermodels First Got Discovered - Famous Models Scouting Stories. Industry Now: Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. Industry, Now Posted by Irene Ojo-Felix | September 20th, 2019 Portrait by Ben Hassett for Models.com #IndustryNow The cycles of social media impel us to embrace then move on from trends and discourses faster than ever before.
The life span of a single work––an editorial, a campaign, a show, a stint––is shorter for it. Fashion’s only unconditional term is the future: operating a year ahead, after all. Fashion narration has long been a powerful tool for inciting debate and changing perceptions. Is fashion better today? Is making beautiful things enough?
What It’s Truly Like to Be a Fashion Model. For decades, modeling was a silent profession, where women were supposed to be seen and never heard. But in February, just as Paris Fashion Week began, a group of high-profile models — Jourdan Dunn, Edie Campbell, Leomie Anderson, Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls — voiced their support for James Scully, a casting director, who had taken to Instagram to condemn two colleagues, Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes, for keeping models in an unlit stairwell for several hours. “Thank you James, speak that TRUTH!!!” Ms. Dunn wrote. A month later, models.com published results from a survey in which more than two dozen models discussed unprofessional working conditions, nonpayment and abuse in the industry.
Meet the Top Models of Fall 2019. Carolina Burgin (The Society Management) For 19-year-old Buffalo, New York, native Carolina Burgin, the most memorable moments of fashion month happened backstage. At Proenza Schouler, where she did looks for the entire collection, Burgin was moved by the enthusiasm of designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. “The energy in the room was so euphoric and seeing how emotional Jack and Lazaro were filled me with so much joy,” shared Burgin who immediately jetted off to walk the three other shows on her schedule that day.
“I was feeling a bit tired, but after Proenza I was beyond ready to finish the rest.”