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At Zalando’s annual partner event, executives described how the retailer uses AI to reduce costs, produce content and analyze customer data. They also addressed the technology’s current limitations and the tasks it may never handle well in fashion.
9:50 PMWWDAudemars Piguet says its sales and customer engagement are reaching record levels after its Royal Pop collaboration with Swatch. The partnership has generated strong results despite a broader luxury-watch slowdown and tariff pressure.
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Alo reportedly sold $1.5 million of merchandise in one minute on Tmall in China and plans to open eight additional stores. Its momentum contrasts with weaker performance from Lululemon in the market.
5:08 AMFortuneLouise Trotter’s Spring 2027 collection moved away from Bottega Veneta’s signature emphasis on woven leather, favoring lighter fabrics, Venetian lace, and homespun details.
5:08 PMWWDMarco Rambaldi used the home and intimate relationships as the foundation for a youthful, relaxed Spring 2027 collection.
4:32 PMWWDLuca Lin reworked wardrobe staples through twists, asymmetry and deliberate imperfections, creating a relaxed but unconventional take on tailoring.
2:36 PMWWDMaximilian Davis recast safari dressing with a more sensual attitude in one of his strongest Ferragamo collections to date.
10:31 AMWWDGilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini presented a sultry Spring 2027 collection that retained The Attico's recognizable signatures while introducing new ideas. The collection explored a more intimate, private mood.
6:30 AMWWDElisabetta Franchi’s Spring 2027 collection combines cycling shorts with roomy tailoring, including a fine tuxedo jacket. Corset-style cross-lacing runs through the otherwise highly glamorous looks.
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At Zalando’s annual partner event, executives described how the retailer uses AI to reduce costs, produce content and analyze customer data. They also addressed the technology’s current limitations and the tasks it may never handle well in fashion.
AI is already delivering operational gains in online fashion, especially in repetitive content and data
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The near-term AI race in fashion is about lowering operating costs, not eliminating the creative role.
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Audemars Piguet says its sales and customer engagement are reaching record levels after its Royal Pop collaboration with Swatch. The partnership has generated strong results despite a broader luxury-watch slowdown and tariff pressure.
The collaboration is turning a high-risk mass-market partnership into a commercial and attention win for
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The result challenges the idea that luxury watch growth requires greater exclusivity and higher prices.
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Alo reportedly sold $1.5 million of merchandise in one minute on Tmall in China and plans to open eight additional stores. Its momentum contrasts with weaker performance from Lululemon in the market.
Alo's Tmall result shows that China's broader consumer slowdown is not affecting all premium activewear
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China remains difficult but not uniformly weak, making brand positioning and local momentum decisive in activewear.
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Louise Trotter’s Spring 2027 collection moved away from Bottega Veneta’s signature emphasis on woven leather, favoring lighter fabrics, Venetian lace, and homespun details.
The decisive shift is a softer, less material-heavy interpretation of Bottega Veneta’s identity. Trotter is
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Bottega Veneta is recasting its luxury code around lightness and ease rather than technical leather craftsmanship alone.
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Marco Rambaldi used the home and intimate relationships as the foundation for a youthful, relaxed Spring 2027 collection.
Rambaldi shifted attention from spectacle to the emotional function of clothing in private spaces. The
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The collection treats comfort and intimacy as design principles, not just styling choices.
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Luca Lin reworked wardrobe staples through twists, asymmetry and deliberate imperfections, creating a relaxed but unconventional take on tailoring.
Act N.1 made disruption the main tool for updating familiar clothes. That keeps tailoring wearable
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The collection shows how subtle irregularity can refresh commercial wardrobe essentials.
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Maximilian Davis recast safari dressing with a more sensual attitude in one of his strongest Ferragamo collections to date.
The collection moves safari style away from straightforward utility and toward controlled sensuality. That shift
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Davis is turning familiar outdoor codes into a sharper, more distinctive proposition for Ferragamo.
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Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini presented a sultry Spring 2027 collection that retained The Attico's recognizable signatures while introducing new ideas. The collection explored a more intimate, private mood.
The Attico is widening its design language without abandoning the provocative identity that defines the
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The collection shows how an identity-driven label can evolve without diluting the traits that make it commercially distinct.
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Elisabetta Franchi’s Spring 2027 collection combines cycling shorts with roomy tailoring, including a fine tuxedo jacket. Corset-style cross-lacing runs through the otherwise highly glamorous looks.
The collection shifts Franchi’s formula toward sharper contrasts, pairing performance-inspired separates with traditional evening tailoring.
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Franchi is broadening its signature va-va-voom aesthetic with athletic and tailored pieces that can reach beyond occasion dressing.
A curated list of other prominent stories from this day.
Menswear designer Timisola Shasanya won the inaugural Sozzani Award, which includes a 15,000-euro scholarship.
2:07 PMWWDDolce & Gabbana built its Spring 2027 collection around freedom of choice, mixing patterns and textures at random to create a playful, exuberant wardrobe.
2:03 PMWWDMassimo Giorgetti introduced a collaboration with the late Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whose work complemented the collection's saturated colors and energetic prints.
12:20 PMWWDErmanno Scervino built the collection around gold frogging borrowed from 18th-century pirate coats and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's jackets, layering it across a richly embellished wardrobe.
12:17 PMWWDWrangler and Imogene + Willie are collaborating on US-made denim and apparel for men and women, with the collection arriving in three product drops.
9:00 AMWWDKylie Minogue performed before a crowd of 100,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the AFL Grand Final. She wore a custom Dolce & Gabbana look with Bared footwear.
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Menswear designer Timisola Shasanya won the inaugural Sozzani Award, which includes a 15,000-euro scholarship.
The award gives Shasanya direct financial support at an early stage of his career. The
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A targeted grant can turn emerging-design talent into a viable business before commercial backing arrives.
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Dolce & Gabbana built its Spring 2027 collection around freedom of choice, mixing patterns and textures at random to create a playful, exuberant wardrobe.
The collection rejects coordinated dressing in favor of deliberate excess and personal combinations. That strategy
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The house is using maximalism to turn individual choice into its central luxury proposition.
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Massimo Giorgetti introduced a collaboration with the late Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whose work complemented the collection's saturated colors and energetic prints.
The Schifano collaboration gives MSGM's maximalism a clearer artistic framework, turning bold color and pattern
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MSGM is using recognizable art history to sharpen, rather than soften, its high-energy identity.
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Ermanno Scervino built the collection around gold frogging borrowed from 18th-century pirate coats and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's jackets, layering it across a richly embellished wardrobe.
Historical braid becomes the collection's defining device, linking aristocratic military dress, piracy, and rock spectacle
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Scervino turns decorative excess into a commercial proposition for clients seeking clothes with immediate visual impact.
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Wrangler and Imogene + Willie are collaborating on US-made denim and apparel for men and women, with the collection arriving in three product drops.
The partnership combines Wrangler's manufacturing legacy with Imogene + Willie's premium positioning and will roll
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The collaboration tests whether American-made heritage can support a contemporary, premium denim proposition.
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Kylie Minogue performed before a crowd of 100,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the AFL Grand Final. She wore a custom Dolce & Gabbana look with Bared footwear.
The performance gave both brands a large-scale cultural platform tied to one of Australia's biggest
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High-profile event dressing continues to function as a direct route for fashion brands to reach audiences beyond traditional luxury consumers.
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