Marc Bain

Among luxury fashion brands, Burberry is the undisputed leader in embracing digital. While its competitors are still tip-toeing in, Burberry dove head first back in 2009, dedicating marketing dollars to social media and launching the “Art of the Trench” minisite, which invites the public to submit photos of themselves in Burberry’s iconic jackets. The company became so good at mixing online and offline that in 2013 Apple hired away its CEO, Angela Ahrendts.

Some of New York’s biggest up-and-coming fashion talents showed their collections under one roof this week, though even fashion insiders don’t know their names—not yet anyway.

The last look to take the runway at Chromat’s recent New York Fashion Week show was the clear standout. It was a little black dress, but with some major technological twists. Called the “adrenaline dress,” it had been 3D-printed, but more impressively, a carbon-fiber lattice evoking sci-fi fairy wings extended from the back, where a panel powered by technology created by chip maker Intel allowed these wings to expand or contract based on the wearer’s adrenaline, stress, or temperature levels.

Kanye West—the rapper, fashion designer, and 2020 presidential hopeful—debuted his second collection in collaboration with Adidas today (Sept. 16). Yeezy season 2, as it’s been dubbed, was a last-minute addition to the calendar, upsetting other designers who suddenly learned they would be competing for attention with one of the biggest names in entertainment. Fans, however, were excited at the news, and in the lead-up to the show, the anticipation mounted.

China’s stock plunge a few weeks ago seriously spooked luxury investors. Combined with China’s earlier move to devalue the yuan, it signaled less spending power for Chinese shoppers, on whom some brands, such as Swatch, Richemont, and Salvatore Ferragamo, rely heavily for sales.

It’s the show that’s kept everyone talking. On September 11, on a Hudson River pier with the World Trade Center’s Freedom Tower in view, French label Givenchy staged what critics have unanimously lauded as a glorious runway presentation.

When Kerby Jean-Raymond, the founder and creative director of the New York fashion label Pyer Moss, was just 10, he and his friends jumped a fence to go play basketball in their Brooklyn neighborhood. What happened next was among the first of several upsetting experiences he had with the police.

As the world is starting to realize, the civil war in Syria is not contained within Syria’s borders. There’s not only the enormous refugee crisis, which has sent millions fleeing the violence, but also the fact that Syria exists as part of a global economy. Despite the chaos and violence, commodities still flow out of the country, and can end up in products elsewhere.

Martin Margiela was a weird, visionary designer. He made garments out of home furnishings, reproduced doll’s clothing at human scale, and created boots with cloven toes. He was famously reclusive, and easily one of the most influential figures in fashion of the last twenty years.

Primark, the Irish fast-fashion retailer known for mind-bogglingly cheap clothes—cheaper than even H&M—has come to the United States. Its 77,000-square-foot shop in Boston’s Downtown Crossing is the first of eight locations planned for the country this year, including one in New York.

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The toughest part of shopping for clothes online is getting the right fit. Sizing problems are a main reason for returns, but beyond being an annoyance to customers, they’re extremely costly to retailers because of all the labor, shipping, and inventory expenses involved.

Air travel is miserable. Aside from all the hassles of getting on the plane, once you’re in your cramped little seat it becomes difficult to do anything but sit upright, elbows tucked, and wait for the journey to be over.

In the last few years, Apple has made a habit of pulling top talent from the fashion world. Now, the fashion world gets to return the favor.

Hispanics in the US have been at the center of political conversations for some years, but even more so since presidential hopeful Donald Trump made immigration from Latin America one of his main talking points. People can debate all they want about whether immigration hurts US wages (it doesn’t) and whether children born to immigrants in the US deserve citizenship (they do). But at the end of the day, the country has a large and growing Hispanic population. The smart brands will be the ones who figure out how to sell them stuff, and the apparel market represents a particularly good opportunity.

The US Open begins today (Aug. 31), and Serena Williams has a chance to make tennis history. A win would put her at 22 career Grand Slam titles, tying Steffi Graf for second most, behind only Margaret Court. Her skill prompts arguments that she is the sport’s greatest female player of all-time, and currently the most dominant US athlete, of any sex or sport. Katrina Adams, the president of the US Tennis Association, recently opined that Williams is the greatest athlete ever—period.

Goths—for those of you in locales where the term isn’t well known—have a subculture defined mainly by a predilection for dark, gloomy music, black clothes, and all things moody and macabre, including at times Edwardian and Victorian design.

Movies can elicit strong emotions when they recreate traumatic events, and in Bangladesh, perhaps no subject matter more so than the deadly 2013 factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 and shook up the nation’s rapidly growing garment industry.

If you’re wondering what you should wear for your next date, job interview, wedding, or criminal-mastermind costume, here’s your answer: black.

Cotton is by far the world’s most popular natural fiber, and much of it is used for clothing. No doubt, it would be ideal if all those cotton clothes could simply be recycled into new garments when their time was up. It would keep millions of tons of waste out of landfills, and allow the fashion industry to use far less virgin material, in turn cutting use of water, pesticides, and chemicals for dyeing.

Prada is dominating the fashion media lately. The label’s fall 2015 collection—a candy-colored take on artifice and exaggerated femininity—has been all over fashion magazines, apparently to the point that it’s put some editors in a huff.

China’s state-run media is referring to today as “Black Monday.” The country’s flailing stock market has been bad news for stock indices around the world, and for any company that counts on Chinese consumers for sales, including a number of luxury fashion companies.

In a literal sense, sustainability is about being able to maintain performance over a long period. More commonly it refers to how environmentally sound a business is. But more and more, the two are inseparable—and the apparel and footwear industries are taking notice.

The undefeated UFC female bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey, has become wildly popular lately, not just for her ability to brutally and quickly dismantle her opponents, but also because she’s unapologetically outspoken in a brusque, blunt sort of way.