Local retailers feel fashion pain as global brands expand After 20 years working in Australian fashion, designer Fiona Wood is launching her own label, called Wonderwood. Putting together her first collection has meant doing everything herself — from design, to patternmaking, to developing a catalogue. But starting small and focusing on quality has always been part of Ms Wood's plan. "I really wanted to focus on well-made garments that are made in Australia, and also support our local industry," she said. It is the very opposite of the global fast fashion chains that are sending Australian operators to the wall. Since December, half a dozen well-known brands have collapsed: the women's retailers Marcs and David Lawrence; the children's label Pumpkin Patch; cut-price shoe store Payless Shoes; suit-maker Herringbone; and its stablemate Rhodes and Beckett. It all adds up to almost 4,000 jobs on the line so far. Former chief executive of David Jones, now globa...
Watch Dogs 2’s fashion atrocities: Crocs, tiny bags, and a hat made from Guy Fieri’s shirt After a long night of hacking into the computer system of a massive corporation, it was time to reward Marcus with a new outfit. Until this point, my colleague Megan had been working her way through Watch Dogs 2 , but a clothing shop seemed as safe a space as any to hand over the controller — it’s like how you can’t let a baby put together a puzzle, but you can let him play with the box it came in. Anyway I was happy to perform this task, not because I love capitalism, but because outfitting Marcus reminded me of games I’m more comfortable with, like The Sims , or Harvest Moon , the kind of games where your personal well-being is more important than the physical destruction of thousands of strangers. Putting clothes on is also a practice I’m deeply familiar with. Several fictional clothing brands have storefronts in Watch Dogs 2 ’s fictional San Francisco, so Marcus isn’t stu...
The Future of Graduate Fashion Week Graduate Fashion Week already connects thousands of students with industry recruiters, but is only just beginning to recognise its digital and global potential. LONDON, United Kingdom — Over the last four days, 1,500 graduate collections have been presented at Graduate Fashion Week in London. Bringing together 68 fashion schools from across the globe, the annual event is essentially an unusually exuberant recruitment fair. The venue, a multi-level warehouse space, has been transformed by graduate collections, filling every inch of three showrooms. Graduates stand eagerly by their portfolios, patiently hoping to catch the eye of industry insiders, press and the general public as they wind their way through the spaces. Founded in 1991, from the outset, Graduate Fashion Week’s (GFW) goal has been clear: “We got all the students from various universities around the UK, we got potential employers that came from Europe and Ameri...
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