Fashion With Attitude
Violeta by Mango, unveils an empowering new campaign for Spring/Summer 2019, featuring three empowering women – plus-size models Paloma Elsesser, Iza Ijzerman and Lorena Durán, the first curvy girl to join Victoria’s Secret. They present key looks in which the sun and a relaxed atmosphere become an inspiration. Floral prints and fluid dresses combine with a bright palette to fill your wardrobe with light and vibrant colours.
This season’s wardrobe highlights one key message throughout – SS19 – #IAMWHATIAM. The brand’s statement is: “This is how I am, because I decide what I want, I decide who I am.” Positivity is back in the form of success making its mark. Dancing, singing and having a good time is easier than ever, because it is time to proclaim beauty without barriers. Choose to be who you want to be. The power is yours.
World First In Transparency
Fashion brand H&M has become the first major retailer in the market to list individual supplier details for each garment in a bid to combat forced labour and increase transparency.
Reuters reported that the information, including where garments are made, suppliers, factory names and addresses and number of workers, will be available on the company’s website. Customers will be able to access the same data instore by downloading the brand’s app and scanning labels.
H&M’s head of sustainability, Isak Roth, said in a statement: “We want to show the world that this is possible.
“By being open and transparent about where our products are made, we hope to set the bar for our industry and encourage customers to make more sustainable choices.”
Mary Quant at the V&A
The life and work of swinging sixties trailblazer Mary Quant is the latest retrospective to take the spotlight at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
The designer, now aged 89, almost single-handedly created the quintessential ‘London look’ with miniskirts, knee-high boots and her sharply-cut bob hairstyle, fashioned by another giant of the period, Vidal Sassoon.
This is the first international retrospective of her work in almost half a century (the last one was in 1973 at Kensington Palace in London), it focuses on her heyday from 1955 to 1975, with more than 120 garments on display over two floors, along with accessories, cosmetics, sketches and photographs belonging to the designer, most of which have never been seen before.
A Family Affair
Perhaps best known for her famous family (dad is singer Lionel and sister is Nicole) and her romance with Courtney K’s ex, Scott Disick, Sofia Richie is about to launch her own fashion line. WWD reported that the 20-year-old model will debut a 12-piece collection in August featuring items that mirror her own personal style.
Having starred in campaigns for the likes of Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger and walked the runway for Dolce & Gabbana, Jeremy Scott and Kanye West‘s Yeezy line, Sofia said she’s been taking notes and learning all these years and now it’s time to put her own ideas out there.
An Apple A Day
Love funky trainers but also love our furry friends, whose skin is often used to make them? Then you need to check out Italian eco footwear brand Womsh which uses plant-based leather made from apples to make sustainable, vegan trainers.
The material uses the cores and skins of apples discarded from industrial processes and combines them with Polyurethane to create vegan leather. And, better yet, when you’ve finished with them, they can be recycled and reused to make anti-slip and anti-fall flooring for playgrounds.
Reviewers say they’re good enough to take over from real skin.
