EDGE Market & News

EDITOR’s Letter: HIDDEN in Plain Sight

Designers in Plain Sight Fashion is a powerful medium that influences and transforms society. We don’t always see and understand the cultural impact it has unless it’s documented in history books or presented at art institutions.  Even with that documentation it is self-fulfilling, omitting a wide-range of history and artifacts.  History shows that creators, contributors, […]

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EDGE Market & News

Time Will Tell. The State of Fashion 2021

Diminished, downsized, and discerning is the current normal of the fashion industry. Fashion companies will post approximately a 90 percent decline in economic profit in 2020, after a 4 percent rise in 2019. – BoF and Mckinsey & Company, The State of Fashion 2021 report

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EDGE Market & News, sustainable EDGE

Fashion for Good, the world’s first museum for sustainable fashion opens in Amsterdam

Join the movement!  With the focus on fashion consumerism and the circular economy, Fashion for Good museum is the first interactive museum dedicated for sustainable fashion. Amsterdam — Fashion for Good, the global initiative for sustainable fashion, has opened the doors of its museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, today. The space aims to show visitors […]

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EDGE Market & News, EDGE-ucation

Fashion Unknown Fact – The U.S. Fashion Industry Employs More Than 1.8 Million People

The fashion industry—including retailers, manufacturers, designers and wholesalers—employs more than 1.8 million people in the United States. It relies on workers in a wide range of occupations, including fashion designers, market research analysts, graphic design artists, computer systems developers, patternmakers, sewing machine operators, retail sales workers, wholesale buyers, accountants and business operations specialists.The U.S. fashion […]

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EDGE Market & News

The State of Fashion 2017

The U.S. fashion industry has changed dramatically since the early part of the 20th century when its main focus was manufacturing. In 1931, the Garment District in New York was home to the highest concentration of clothing manufacturers in the world. – The New Economy of Fashion | Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress   […]

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EDGE Market & News

The New Economy of Fashion

There are strong signs of a bright future for sectors of the fashion industry—primarily in design and high tech manufacturing. Fashion is a multi-trillion dollar global industry, encompassing everything from textile and apparel brands to wholesalers, importers and retailers. Over a trillion dollars is spent annually on apparel and footwear around the globe, with nearly […]

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EDGE Market & News

Dubai | The Road To A Fashion Ecosystem

Dubai – beyond its endless luxury shopping malls and over-the-top conspicuous consumption culture – is paying attention to creative emerging talent.   Emerging local designers and international brands are making a go at tapping into this mega fashion retail capital. Dubai is building a fashion ecosystem, developing an infrastructure that not only supports the retail climate, […]

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EDGE Afropolitan, EDGE Market & News

Africa | The Emerging Fashion Market

Out of Africa comes an emerging fashion market which plays an important role in this global enterprise. This market is true to the African culture and the consumers are responding to the newness that African designers present against the sea of sameness so prevalent in the industry. Redefine your perception of Africa. With the growth […]

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EDGE Afropolitan, EDGE Market & News

EDGE Out of Africa

The industry needs fresh blood. Armani is tired. Galliano is trying to resuscitate himself. McQueen is gone. Gucci is failing to reinvigorate and Prada needs a new creative team. It’s time for the big fashion investors to start looking to Africa. Not appropriating our themes, but taking on our design talent. – Johannesburg designer David […]

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EDGE Market & News

Knock, Knock. . .Who’s There?. . .Asia

Opportunity knocks in Asia for those brave and progressive U.S. emerging designers [EDGE]. Do you have a global business strategy that taps into the East’s demand for fashion from the West? Here are a few tidbits of what’s going on in the Asia market: The Chinese are still the biggest buyers of luxury goods globally, […]

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EDGE Market & News

How Radical is Fashion Innovation?

This is what I think of innovation:  It takes creativity to have the vision of a great idea, concept, or product. It takes courage, conviction, and determination to believe in it and follow it through to full execution and exposure [this is true of all artists]. One of my favorite magazines is i-D. I recently […]

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EDGE Market & News

Fashion Trends, Are They For Real?

There’s always a hunger for the next thing, a need to start a new movement. That’s true of media and “brand” created fashion trends, where trends are dictated for commercial reasons. Dressing normal is the Fall 2014 Gap campaign and many of you have heard of the “normcore” trend. Personally I think this “normal” trend […]

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EDGE Market & News

Barbie® as Creative Inspiration

Barbie® has been a muse to many artists over the past 5+ decades – including Andy Warhol and Peter Max. Over the years, Barbie® doll has always been a reflection of the times, art, and fashion whether following style trends or blazing her own fashion trail. Today, Barbie® is the most popular doll in the […]

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EDGE Market & News

EDGE Looks to China

Chinese consumers hold foreign brands in high esteem.  “In the 1950s and 1960s the world economy was transformed by the emergence of the American consumer.  Now China seems poised to become the next consumption superpower.  In all likelihood, it has just overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-biggest consumer economy.  Its roughly $3.3 trillion in […]

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