- Amazon has closed its two brick-and-mortar Amazon Style stores to focus on its online fashion operation.
- Pantone has picked “Peach Fuzz” as the colour of the year 2024: “Peach Fuzz brings belonging, inspires recalibration and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm.”
- Allure reports that concert dressing has practically become an Olympic sport.
- The side fringe is back, this time inspired by the “Indie sleaze” trend — “a darker, defiant alternative to more muted trends like “quiet luxury.”
- Inclusive lingerie brand ThirdLove is branching out into swimwear.
- In the UK, budget supermarket chain Lidl has launched a Christmas sweater rental service.
- A new law requires that all cosmetology students in New York State learn to style textured hair.
- “Statement Sleeves,” a new exhibit at The Museum at Fit, “will feature the works of designers such as Balenciaga, Tom Ford, Schiaparelli, Vivienne Westwood and Thierry Mugler, exploring how sleeves serve as a vital mode of self-expression, reflecting gestures, movements, and specific fashion eras.”
- M.A.C Cosmetics has been named the “biggest” beauty brand in 2023 due to the launch of its dewy skin tint.
- Phoebe Philo has launched her much-awaited first collection.
- The Guardian reports that the vintage clothing market is flooded with fakes.
Fun Fashion Quote
I love what criminal defense attorney Hannah Proff is saying here:
“My feet are wide, so I’ll get shoes stretched. My cobbler is super grumpy, but you just hand him your shoes, he says, ‘Come back in two weeks,’ and they’re perfect. I’m 6 feet tall, and when I was younger, I’d avoid heels because I used to think, there’s already so much of me! But now that I’m older, I’m like, you know what, there should be more of me.”
