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What fashion can learn from runways at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Inside Retail

This year’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) was a 15-day-long parade of emerging and established Australian designers spanning over 100 unique events. Premium runways were staged inside Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building against the backdrop of the news that Victoria is Australia’s fashion manufacturing capital.

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Why Shona Joy is filling in the missing piece of the circular fashion puzzle

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The term “circular fashion” serves as both a challenge to the fashion industry’s traditional model of take-make-waste and a solution to its environmental impact. But while luxury fashion houses are well-versed in repairs, discussions around circular fashion for premium brands are often limited to rental and resale marketplaces.

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The Iconic launches First Nations fashion incubator program

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Fashion platform The Iconic has launched The Iconic x FNFD Incubator Program for First Nations designers. Fashion designers, jewellery and accessory designers, graphic artists, and textile artists from various backgrounds and generations are eligible for the program.

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What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. The post What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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Australian fashion brands seek supply-chain sovereignty

Inside Retail

This is just part of the conversation happening with fashion brands and retailers across the country as pressures mount to gain control over notoriously complex supply chains and work towards circular, sustainable business practices. per cent of fashion shoppers look for Australian made. Earlier this year, R.M.

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The brands that have consumers buying jewellery brands

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Accessoriesare no longer taking a backseat in the fashion industry with the rise of “jewellery wardrobes”. Earring, bracelet, ring and necklace stacking is a tradition taken from ancient cultures and has been popularised again by fashion influencers.

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How Singaporean designers translate their cultural heritage into fashion

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In the heart of Singapore’s bustling fashion scene, the Singapore Fashion Council (SFC), has once again taken centre stage with its latest ‘Singapore Stories’ designer showcase. As for Singapore’s fashion industry, Ms.

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