Farfetch.com partners with Salvatore Ferragamo

With omnichannel retailing being the key to drive growth, it is interesting to learn the global platform for luxury fashion industry - Farfetch.com,  and Italian luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo, have announced a global strategic partnership. 

The commercial deal will see the two companies engage in an integrated partnership that will allow Ferragamo to boost its digital innovation capabilities by leveraging the full breadth of Farfetch’s platform, according to top executives of both firms.

Farfetch.com and Ferragamo share a vision of the convergence of luxury retail centred on quality,
innovation and client experiences, powered by strong and differentiated technological solutions.

Leveraging the power of the Farfetch.com technology platform will enable Ferragamo to power its digital and omnichannel strategy using Farfetch.com Platform Solutions. The partnership will involve leveraging Farfetch’s global audience reach through strengthening Ferragamo’s presence on the Farfetch Marketplace, as well as utilising Farfetch’s Media Solutions to deliver engaging digital experiences for a younger, and global audience.

José Neves, Founder, Chairman and CEO, FARFETCH said: “This partnership capitalises on all of FARFETCH’s strengths as the global platform for the luxury industry and taps into our vision for Luxury New Retail. Ferragamo has a wonderful heritage of creativity and craftsmanship and I am hugely excited about the opportunity to take it to a unique new audience globally. Ferragamo’s outstanding product and creativity, coupled with our marketing capabilities and innovative digital experiences will captivate that audience while our media and technology platform capabilities power Ferragamo’s digital ecosystem.”

Marco Gobbetti, CEO, Salvatore Ferragamo, said: “FARFETCH is the leading digital platform in luxury fashion and represents the ideal partner to further boost Ferragamo’s omnichannel innovation, fueling our plans to reach new, younger audiences and accelerate our growth.”

Top Drawer returns to London Olympia in September under "Retail Revitalised" theme

Top Drawer, UK’s  design-led lifestyle and interiors trade show, returns to the Olympia in the heart of London this September to showcase their Autumn/Winter 22 edit – just in time for the industry's buying season.

Broste Copenhagen at Top Drawer Spring 2022

To be held from September 11 - 13 2022, Top Drawer is expected to attract trade buyers, professionals and industry attendees to its line-up of hand-picked exhibitors, providing exclusive trend directions, and a programme of curated seminar sessions that aim to inspire, according to organisers.

Featuring more than 1,500 brands from the UK and overseas, the show offers a range of products from across the lifestyle spectrum, covered in nine sectors. Exhibitors include the likes of Morgan Wright, CHALK, Roka London, Little Concepts, Aery, Bronte By Moon, Izipizi, Kikkerland Europe, Bookspeed, Plum & Ashby and Alex Monroe to name just a few. 

Turtle Doves, a participant in Top Drawer Autumn 2022 edition, is a British design and manufacturing company, specialising in using post-consumer textile waste
to create new garments & fashion accessories.  

Alongside brands and household names, Top Drawer is gearing itself as a platform for promising new talent; it inaugurated a “Launchpad” sector during the SS22 edition in the Spring.  

For this upcoming edition, the show will continue to put fresh faces in the spotlight, allowing them to network with buyers and trade visitors to help build lasting connections within the industry. 

It will see the return of a partnership with the University of Arts London, as well as introducing a selection of Young Furniture Makers who have been hand-selected to showcase their products and are eager to increase their brand exposure. 

While both the AW21 and SS22 shows aim to provide an opportunity to test the waters in a post-pandemic climate, Top Drawer’s new season message "Retail Revitalised" aims to highlight the beginning of a fresh chapter in the world of retail and looking ahead with an unapologetically positive outlook for this September’s edition, say the organisers.

Copenhagen Fashion Week opens today, partnering with Ukrainian Fashion Week

As Copenhagen Fashion Week kicks off its SS23 season today, August 9th, it is marking an unprecedented partnership to give an “uplift to a fellow fashion organisation in times of war.”

As Ukraine is under siege due to Russia’s invasion, the country is not able to celebrate the 25th anniversary this year of its Ukrainian Fashion Week.  As its fashion industry is fighting to not only survive and mobilize, but also to continue creating collections to tell the world about Ukrainian resilience as well as to show Ukrainian national identity through fashion, is has gained the support of  Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Through the partnership with Ukrainian Fashion Week, Copenhagen Fashion Week is showcasing the Coat label by Katya Silchenko and TG Botanical as part of the official Event & Presentation Schedule. The Coat is releasing a digital fashion film on the CFW  website on Wednesday 10 August 09:00am CET and TG Botanicals is staging a physical presentation on 11 August Thursday 09:00 - 11:00am CET. 

Cecilie Thorsmark
CFW CEO

Cecilie Thorsmark, chief executive of Copenhagen Fashion Week, said in a statement: “In light of the atrocities we have borne witness to on the nation of Ukraine, any support we can present to the Ukrainian fashion industry is vital to the preservation of their own creative ecosystem that has been so cruelly threatened.

According to Iryna Danylevska, founder and chief executive of Ukrainian Fashion Week, there are fashion weeks in 9 countries providing support to Ukrainian designers and Ukrainian Fashion Week, making it on its 25th anniversary an international project.

This SS23 season, Copenhagen Fashion Week is on until August 12 and features 36 designers with a focus on emerging talent, menswear, sustainability and Nordic brands. This includes its new emerging designer incubator ‘CPHFW NewTalent’ showcasing A. Roege Hove, Latimmier and P.L.N., alongside Finnish label Latimmier and OperaSport, who are joining the schedule for the first time.

Berner Kühl

The opening show slot was given to  emerging menswear brand Berner Kühl. With a master's degree from Polimoda in Firenze, designer Frederik Berner Kuhl, founder of the eponymous label is armed with an ambition to create something that is destined to last by approaching the new season with a modular wardrobe concept.

Also showing are such menswear designer brands Sunflower, Soulland, Martin Asbjørn, Schnayderman's and Wood Wood, and last season's Zalando Sustainability Award winner, Iso.Poetism by Tobias Birk Nielsen.

Meanwhile, the new Zalando Sustainability Award winner will be announced on August 11

Christopher Raeburn

Christopher Raeburn SS23

Among the finalists of the Zalando Sustainability Award is British designer Christopher Raeburn, who founded Ræburn in 2009. Ræburn is known for its innovative balance of high concept, accessibility and wearability that is applied to both menswear, womenswear, luggage and accessories with distinctive utilitarian value and purpose.

Other finalists are Parisian-based Mworks, and London/Reykjavík-based design studio Ranra showcasing their latest collections. The winning designer will receive 20,000 euros and the chance to develop an exclusive capsule collection with the e-commerce brand.

Other highlights on the official schedule of CFW include the best of the Nordics, with Ganni, Saks Potts, Helmstedt, Rotate, Skall Studio, Stine Goya, Hope, Baum und Pferdgarten, Lovechild 1979, Gestuz, Munthe, Rabens Saloner, Samsøe Samsøe, Remain and Rotate.

Small talks - big conversations: how to incubate future talent 

To gain new insights on how to incubate emerging design talents, Nora Eslander, Head of Communications at Circulose, Ervin Latimer, Founder of Latimmier, Laird Borrelli-Persson, Archive Editor at Vogue and Bruce Pask, Menswear Fashion Director at Bergdorf Goodman & Neiman Marcus will be sitting down to discuss the importance of effectively building frameworks to support the next generation of talent and how we can provide structure in schemes to protect the emerging brands of the future. Moderated by: Emma Davidson, Fashion Features Director at Dazed