Last year we announced FashionUnited's expansion to 100 countries, with the goal of giving fashion professionals access to industry news, job vacancies and essential data in their own country and language. This week we mark another milestone on that journey.

FashionUnited is now fully live in Sweden, Norway and Finland, each with trade news coverage and a dedicated job board. They join Denmark, which launched with news in August, to complete our Nordic footprint.

The Nordic region is home to some of the world's most influential fashion brands and retailers, and its professionals now have a trusted, independent source of verified industry news alongside real, relevant job opportunities and a marketplace.

A warm welcome to our new readers, candidates, brands and partners across Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. We're excited to grow with you. Interested in partnering with FashionUnited in your market? Email grow@fashionunited.com.

FashionUnited is set to significantly expand its global footprint, adding 60 countries to its platform in the coming months. By the end of this year, this expansion will enable over 80% of fashion professionals worldwide to access industry news, job vacancies, and essential data in their own country and language.

This significant expansion is the result of over 25 years of online experience and the latest breakthroughs in in-house developed technology and AI. It allows FashionUnited to further extend its mission of making the fashion industry more efficient and transparent.

In a rapidly changing world where the line between real and fake news is increasingly blurred, it's crucial to have reliable sources. This is precisely what FashionUnited stands for: the company offers verified news and legitimate job opportunities. It connects buyers with brands, and professionals with the right employers in the fashion industry.

The selection of the new countries aligns with the presence of international players in fashion, optimizing synergy. Interested in growing with FashionUnited in specific countries? Email grow@fashionunited.com for more information.

About FashionUnited: FashionUnited is the industry's trusted online global network for B2B news, market insights, B2B marketplace and jobs. Established in 1998, this independent platform is the go-to destination for a broad range of information and services connecting the global fashion community. With an innovative media network of journalists active all over the world, the latest business intelligence and content is delivered to over 1 million users. With over 100.000 news articles and more than 100.000 jobs published annually, on top of extensive industry data, FashionUnited aims to help make the industry more efficient and transparent.

In today's volatile market, decisive leadership hinges on access to premium, data-driven insights. FashionUnited is enhancing its commitment to the apparel industry by investing in more content focusing on financial results, technology, sustainability, market statistics and executive interviews.

This specialized Executive section is now accessible through the Executive subscription, a key component of our Premium Status offering for FashionUnited member companies. This valuable resource is provided complimentary to professionals within our connected network, reflecting our dedication to fostering collaborative growth. The Executive membership unlocks unlimited access to information. For professionals outside of the partner network, the Executive subscription is available at a monthly rate of 15 Euros, excluding VAT.

FashionUnited is proud to introduce this enhanced membership program, designed to deliver unparalleled value to our community of over 1 million fashion professionals. In an era of information overload and increasing misinformation, a reliable, trusted source is paramount. We are dedicated to evolving alongside you, providing the insights, tools, and networks necessary for sustained success.

Explore the Executive section here >> fashionunited.com/executive

International and local, fact driven, authoritative reporting to help fashion executives make decisions in a world that is evolving rapidly.

FashionUnited is thrilled to announce its new executive membership programme, designed to provide even greater value to the dedicated community of over 1 million fashion professionals. As the fashion industry continues to transform at an unprecedented pace, our mission remains the same: to offer international and local, fact based, authoritative reporting that empowers professionals to thrive in this dynamic environment. As it becomes increasingly challenging to distinguish between what's fake and what's real online, having a trusted source for news has never been more crucial.

In a rapidly changing landscape, our membership model enables FashionUnited to deliver insights, expert analysis, and world-class reporting while continually introducing new benefits for readers. This ongoing evolution reflects our commitment to meeting the growing demands of the apparel industry.

The service is offered at no cost to professionals affiliated with FashionUnited-connected companies. Expanding our partnership network allows us to continually invest in high-quality executive information. The Executive membership includes unlimited content access focusing on financial results, technology, sustainability, market statistics and executive interviews. Entry to a wide range of business intelligence indices is included.

We’re committed to evolving with you and offering the insights, tools, and networks you need to excel in the fashion industry. News and sign up options can be found here >>.

Thank you for being part of the FashionUnited network. Keep reading, sharing your feedback, and helping us shape the future of fashion reporting.

The combined market capitalization of the top 100 publicly listed apparel companies in the FashionUnited Top100 Index has surged from $1 trillion to over $2 trillion in the past decade, signifying substantial growth and investor confidence in the industry.

FashionUnited, a leading global platform for fashion professionals, today announced the latest update to its Top 100 Index, revealing remarkable growth in the apparel industry over the past 10 years. The index, which tracks the market capitalization of the world's 100 largest publicly traded apparel companies, now exceeds $2 trillion for the first time, more than doubling in value since its inception in 2014.

Over the past decade, 25 companies have dropped off the list due to takeovers or delistings for various reasons. Twenty-five new companies have been added to the list, mainly due to successful IPOs in recent years. On Holding, Dr. Martens, The RealReal, About You, Mytheresa, Asos, Allbirds, Global Fashion Group, Rent the Runway, Lanvin Group, Aritzia and Groupe Dynamite have been welcomed to the various stock exchanges globally. This latest index update highlights the industry's resilience and adaptability amidst a rapidly changing retail landscape.

The top 10 has remained relatively consistent, with only EssilorLuxottica and Ross Stores recently joining the top tier. The top 10 alone has grown to over $1.4 trillion, with Hermès experiencing the most significant gains, increasing its value almost tenfold compared to 10 years ago.

The current top 10 fashion companies:

• LVMH
• Hermès
• Inditex
• TJX Companies
• Nike
• EssilorLuxottica
• Christian Dior
• Fast Retailing
• Richemont
• Ross Stores

Key takeaways from the updated index:

E-commerce giants dominate: The updated index reflects the rise of e-commerce, with online retailers and brands with strong digital strategies claiming top spots.

Sustainability takes center stage: Companies prioritizing sustainable practices and ethical sourcing are seeing increased investor interest and market valuation.

Luxury brands stock remain strong: Despite economic uncertainties, luxury brands continue to hold their value and demonstrate growth potential.

The FashionUnited Top 100 Index is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the apparel industry, providing a comprehensive overview of the market and its key players. The index is updated monthly and is available for free on the FashionUnited website. >> FashionUnited Top 100

Instagram’s focus on visual storytelling, curated content, and its diverse range of features, such as ‘stories’, ‘reels’ and shopping integrations, make it an indispensable tool for brands looking to connect with their audiences meaningfully. By leveraging Instagram’s vast reach and its ability to curate visually stunning content, brands can not only showcase their latest collections but also engage with consumers on a deeper level, reinforcing their identity and influence within the fashion landscape.

In order to shine a light on some of the most significant trends and developments in how brands are using social media, FashionUnited has introduced its own Fashion Popularity Index listing the top fashion brands on Instagram.

Nike tops the list with a staggering 304 million followers on Instagram and is an exception in the index. Appealing to a slightly older, affluent demographic that appreciates polished aesthetics and aspirational lifestyles, it should come as no surprise that the next most popular brand on Instagram is millennial favorite Victoria’s Secret. With 76 million followers on Instagram, Victoria’s Secret has witnessed a strong comeback in consumer popularity following a controversial period in 2018 when its annual fashion show was canceled. Maintaining a steady following on Instagram since 2015, this is in part due to its consistent strategy, which offers its social media followers exclusive updates, behind-the-scenes looks, and benefits. Creating a sense of personal engagement, followers feel as though Victoria’s Secret is directly inviting them to connect with the brand and its many celebrity influencers, significantly strengthening customer loyalty. The third most popular brand on Instagram is Spanish fast fashion giant Zara, with 62 million followers. Zara’s social media approach focuses on delivering high-quality visual content, providing timely announcements about new collections, and showcasing its latest cutting-edge fashion trends. Additionally, the brand strategically partners with influencers to broaden its reach and connect with a larger audience.

The forth most popular brand on Instagram is French luxury fashion house Chanel, with 59.9 million followers, closely followed by none other than Louis Vuitton in fifth place with 55.5 million followers, and Italian luxury brand Gucci, with 52 million followers in sixth. According to FashionUnited’s research, five of Instagram’s ten most popular brands are luxury brands, highlighting the platform’s growing significance within the high-end fashion market. Luxury brands are increasingly turning to Instagram as a leading channel to connect with diverse audiences and are implementing successful marketing campaigns through refined social media strategies. Leading fashion houses like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci have solidified their presence on the platform through visually stunning campaigns and exclusive product launches. Leveraging varied content formats on the platform, like ‘stories’ and ‘reels’ with trending music, has further helped these brands facilitate real-time interaction with followers, fostering a sense of exclusivity and immediacy. Luxury brands are also increasingly utilizing Instagram’s shopping features to guide their followers from content discovery to purchase. Dior, for instance, the sixth most popular brand on Instagram with 46.4 million followers, diligently curates its Instagram page with visually captivating editorial campaigns that integrate direct shopping links, allowing followers to buy products straight from their feed. Enhancing its page visual appeal, this strategy also promotes a “see now, buy now” effect, encouraging immediate purchases and boosting the brand’s overall appeal. FashionUnited's Fashion Popularity Index measures online popularity and offers insights that partially reflect these companies; market value and revenue.

The Index is regularly updated, with FashionUnited consistently adding more fashion brands to create a comprehensive top 1000 list. Moreover, FashionUnited will closely monitor and report on the social media campaigns and other digital initiatives of the brands included in this Index.

To help identify some of the most prominent trends and developments when it comes to brands’ social media usage, FashionUnited has established its own Fashion Popularity Index.

Looking specifically at TikTok, the most popular fashion brand on the social media platform by far is luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton, with a following of 14 million users. In second place, we have Spanish fast fashion giant Zara with 11.8 million followers, closely followed by Chinese ultra-fast fashion company Shein with 9.5 million followers. German sportswear brand Adidas is in fifth place with 8.1 million followers, as Luxury fashion brand Dior aims to catch up with 8 million followers.

Part of Louis Vuitton’s ongoing popularity on the app is linked to the luxury brand’s continual production of distinctive, curated content, as well as its decision to forgo the polished brand image that is more typical of platforms like Instagram and its showcase of unfiltered behind-the-scenes footage. In addition, Louis Vuitton’s TikTok profile is rich with celebrity collaborations from Kim Kardashian to Jared Leto and Naomi Campbell, underlining their commitment to leveraging the significant impact of influencer marketing.

FashionUnited’s Fashion Popularity Index gauges virtual popularity and partially reflects the actual market value and revenue of these companies.

The Fashion Popularity Index is continually kept up to date, as FashionUnited is continuously adding fashion brands to develop a comprehensive list with over top 1000 brands. Additionally, FashionUnited will monitor and report on the social media campaigns and other digital activities of the brands featured in this index.

The latest Spring Summer 2025 trends and need-to-know news about that season can be found on the free and special section dedicated to SS25. Starting next month, the fast-evolving industry continues with fashion weeks and events back in full swing. Brands introducing their SS25 collections, the buying season quickly approaching, and digitisation playing an increasingly important role; fashion professionals need to react quickly to remain competitive.

The dedicated section on FashionUnited’s site provides buyers with a unique and crucial overview of trend insights and news for the upcoming buying season, including information on the latest fabrics, colours, patterns, and styles.

The platform includes insights from world-renowned trend forecasters who outline their visions for the season, as well as nuanced looks into categories, such as denim, sustainability, and digital fashion. The section comprehensively spans womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, footwear, and accessories.

With many brands adding new collections every day during the SS25 buying period, the platform is the go-to place for buyers to be as prepared, and thus as competitive as possible, ahead of the upcoming season. As an independent international B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals monthly with the goal to make the fashion industry more efficient and transparent.

The growing fashion industry continuously welcomes brands in different areas, whether digital, sustainable or fast fashion. These fashion brands introduce fresh styles and narratives giving buyers and consumers a wider array of choices to drive the industry forward.

To aggregate the top B2B brands in one place, FashionUnited introduced the International B2B Fashion Brands Directory, featuring a collection of over 4,000 brands. While the directory is accessible to everyone, it enables buyers to discover new labels and explore the latest fashion trends. Sorted by brand categories, it facilitates searches with the help of filtered browsing, such as sportswear, accessories, bags, sustainable brands, as well as women's and men's wear. Every listed B2B brand has its own page to promote its brand identity and narrative, including the mission, products, and contact information.

While the cohesive directory of wholesale brands provides a transparent overview for fashion professionals to stay up-to-date, it is especially relevant during buying seasons for buyers to remain competitive.

The ever-growing B2B Fashion Brands Directory with more than 100,000 users, serves as a go-to tool for fashion professionals to stay informed about the newest and most relevant B2B fashion brands, while maintaining a clear and user-friendly overview. Through offering and expanding the business intelligence for over 25 years, FashionUnited strives to make the industry more efficient by connecting over one million fashion professionals per month. Explore the Fashion Brands Directory here.

In the vibrant world of fashion, connecting top talents and innovative fashion brands is key to industry success. That's where FashionUnited steps in. With a steadfast commitment and expertise in recruiting, as well as employer branding, the international B2B fashion network is dedicated to tackling the recruitment challenges of fashion companies across the world.

In the dedicated career centre, FashionUnited not only shares knowledge about the unique dynamics of the fashion industry in the special work in fashion section but also offers a diverse range of jobs. Whether it is vacancies in retail management, in-store fashion jobs, sales and marketing, or design, the career hub connects experts and leading fashion brands. While the jobs section enables professionals to search for their perfect fit, the employer branding pages provide brands with the opportunity to establish their brand identity and share about the work culture.

Over one million professionals turn to FashionUnited monthly for the latest news, making it the preferred platform for experts and enthusiasts to establish themselves in the industry. Through the longtime commitment to recruitment and employer branding, FashionUnited offers specialised knowledge at a cost effectiveness rate, allowing fashion companies to showcase their brand identity compellingly and attractively. With the ultimate goal to highlight the unique brand ethos while connecting with professionals who share mutual enthusiasm.

By exclusively focusing on the fashion industry, FashionUnited supports recruiters and professionals via its career centre to find the best fit and contributes to the industry’s unique and fast-paced dynamics.

A growing number of brands are unveiling their Autumn Winter 2024 collections as the buying season is upon us. The digitisation across various sectors, such as trend forecasting, design, manufacturing, retailing and advertising, compels the fashion industry to accelerate its pace. Consequently, fashion professionals must respond quickly to remain competitive.

In its commitment to offering a comprehensive perspective on the latest trends and developments, FashionUnited has designated a section specifically for crucial news related to AW24 trends and collections. The unique platform serves as a valuable resource around each buying season, providing valuable insights about fabrics, colours, patterns and styles among other key elements. Additionally, the platform incorporates perspectives from renowned trend forecasters, unpacking their visions for the Autumn Winter 2024 season, alongside nuanced analyses of various categories, such as denim, sustainability, and digital fashion.

The AW24 news section provides comprehensive coverage across womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, footwear, and accessories. Fashion brands regularly introduce new designs and styles to their collections throughout the buying season, ranging from fast fashion to mid-market to luxury brands. Consequently, the Autumn Winter 2024 section becomes the ultimate destination and tool for buyers to prepare and maintain maximum competitiveness, ahead of the upcoming season.

Read more about the latest Autumn Winter 2024 trends here.

Social and environmental sustainability in fashion sheds light on several issues, ranging from overproduction and brand pollution, to poor conditions for garment workers. With the resulting demand for sustainable fashion, organizations in the industry, including federations, fashion weeks, luxury houses, and fast fashion brands are challenged to adjust their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts and transparency accordingly.

For this reason, independent fashion organizations are dedicated to increasing attention to the urgency of issues related to sustainability - social or environmental. This collective action is driving a massive transformation in the fashion sector towards circularity, which is ultimately shaping the fashion news agenda of diverse media platforms.

Given the relevance of this topic, FashionUnited has a dedicated page to provide professionals and businesses with an overview of the latest news and innovations around sustainability in the fashion industry. This section offers readers the latest news, cohesively covering sustainable fabrics, new regulations and legislation, resources, circular fashion and greenwashing, among other topics.

Since its launch, this dedicated sustainability section on FashionUnited has received over 2,800 visits across all local language pages. As the leading B2B fashion platform, it has become the go-to place for professionals to explore the latest trends, developments and news related to sustainable fashion, and ensure they are up-to-date with the rapidly evolving fashion industry.

As the international B2B network continues to grow, connecting more than one million professionals a month, FashionUnited has an important responsibility to highlight crucial issues such as sustainability to improve transparency in the fashion industry. Increasing the awareness of current events on sustainability and circularity is more important than ever, as modern business practices are significantly compromising the natural environment and the living conditions of all those who make up the fashion industry.

Discover the latest news and innovations around sustainability in the fashion industry here.

FashionUnited USA has surpassed pre-Covid levels from the beginning of 2020, achieving a higher performance than before the pandemic as more and more fashion professionals read fashion related news on FashionUnited USA and apply for jobs on the website.

Active in over 30 countries in 10 languages

Besides working with a dynamic and skilled network of journalists in the United States, the B2B platform FashionUnited is present in over 30 markets worldwide, and provides the latest news and knowledge about the fashion sector in over 10 different languages.

With a reach of over one million readers per month, FashionUnited spans across major fashion cities including Los Angeles, New York, London, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong. As the global fashion network continues to grow, FashionUnited remains committed to consistently exceeding expectations and cementing itself as the primary source of market insights and latest fashion news.

Wide range of services

Since FashionUnited’s start in 1998, the network has become the go-to place for reliable fashion-related B2B news. Alongside sharing diverse business intelligence related information with the international fashion industry, such as an index of most valuable fashion brands, the website also offers various services for professionals to boost their career in the industry.

Compared to before the pandemic the number of monthly visitors grew over 30% to approximately 250,000, now offering a wide range of job opportunities and local industry news. In the next 12 months more content and services will be added aiming to achieve a similar growth number in one year.

This year, leading B2B fashion platform FashionUnited launched the Graduate Collection Campaign 2023 with the purpose of sharing the work of upcoming designers in its innovative Lookbook.

Each year, leading fashion schools organize runway shows to showcase their graduates' latest work. However, young designers face a variety of challenges when entering the industry, and until now have lacked a dedicated platform to share their work and present themselves to the vast and competitive fashion world.

FashionUnited has bridged that gap with its AI-powered Lookbook, a comprehensive image database allowing users to seamlessly share and search thousands of images of the latest trends and collections from across the globe. The Graduate Collection Campaign 2023, showcased on FashionUnited’s Lookbook, spotlights the work of emerging designers by collecting visual material from the graduate collections of some of the most recognized fashion programs in the world.

By sharing images of these promising collections in the Lookbook, students can gain instant exposure to FashionUnited’s vast network of fashion professionals, educators, and recruiters.

As the new school season approaches, this year’s campaign for the graduating class of 2023 is coming to an end. With the resounding success of the inaugural Graduate Collection Campaign, fashion students approaching their final years of study will soon be able to showcase their work in the Lookbook for the 2024 graduating class.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to share the upcoming 2024 collections with a global audience of fashion professionals. Be part of the 2024 Graduates Collection Campaign. Contact education@fashionunited.com for more information.

Explore the latest 2023 graduate collections to be shared in the Lookbook:

• Explore the collection of London College of Fashion here

• Explore the collection of FIT New York here

• Explore the collection of Central Saint Martins here

• Explore the collection of IED Madrid here

The fusion of fashion and technology presents a promising yet complex landscape. As the fashion industry undergoes a digital revolution and is impacted by new and exciting softwares, it faces distinct challenges that set it apart from other sectors.

To help fashion professionals navigate multifaceted challenges and keep-up-to date with technological advancements in the industry, FashionUnited has launched a dedicated IT special page. The page offers practical tips and tricks, as well as all the latest news and updates when it comes to IT in fashion.

Besides the latest updates, fashion and IT professionals and enthusiasts can also find a comprehensive overview of the software companies working within the fashion industry, and will also have access to a convenient section for frequently asked questions (FAQs).

The evolution of software in fashion involves more than simply automating processes; it requires a deep understanding of the complex interplay between creativity, technology, consumer psychology, supply chain logistics, and real-time adaptability.

As software companies continue to develop more tools for the fashion industry, unique challenges arise, including the need to balance technological innovations with human creativity. For example, designing apparel requires a complex blend of innovation and nuanced cultural awareness and while software can assist for the final creative touch, it often demands a human element that's hard to automate.

In order to keep up with the fast evolving landscape of software in fashion, the biggest challenges being faced, and the best ways to overcome them, visit Fashionunited’s IT specials page and ensure you’re equipped with all the most relevant information. The page also includes the Global Softwares in Fashion Directory.

As the global B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals and enthusiasts every month, assembling the latest and most relevant news to keep fashion professionals informed in a dynamic and competitive industry.

The fashion industry is one of the most diverse and fast-evolving creative industries. Within the evolving sector, crucial HR changes are also taking place, impacting the decision-making of the fashion world. FashionUnited has launched a dedicated career information section, known as the Work in Fashion Special, providing existing and prospective fashion professionals with all the latest career advice and work-in-fashion news, from work culture and training to recruitment.

The career section is a space where fashion professionals and enthusiasts can access a detailed overview of what is happening behind the scenes in the fashion sector. Whether starting out a career in fashion or already involved, the section gathers all information and tools relevant to a career in the industry.

Besides the most recent news, the page also includes links to other relevant sections, such as the education special page, and career centre. Additionally, the page is available in different languages, and each comprises relevant local updates in the respective countries. Through providing a wide range of news, updates, and tools that are tailored to each region, the career section is the go-to platform for all work in fashion related information in the industry.

As the global B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects more than one million fashion professionals a month, offering tools for fashion professionals and enthusiasts who aim to build or expand their career in the industry. Additionally, it keeps them up-to-date with all the latest developments, challenges and opportunities that are emerging as the industry grows.

Discover the Work in Fashion Special page here.

Global B2B fashion network, FashionUnited, has published the SS24 special section allowing retail buyers to keep up-to-date with the latest news and trends. The designated page brings together the latest news related to Spring-Summer 2024 fashion collections from a wide range of brands, retailers, and other businesses.

As the fashion industry rapidly evolves, fashion weeks, trade fairs, conferences, and other events resume their regular schedules, showcasing the latest collections of brands ranging from luxury fashion, sustainable labels, quiet luxury, and digital fashion. With the unveiling of Spring Summer 2024 collections and as the buying season approaches, the need for fashion professionals and buyers to respond and strategize effectively is mounting. In the midst of this, digital transformation is playing an increasingly pivotal role in fashion, requiring industry players to remain agile in order to maintain a competitive edge.

FashionUnited has introduced the new SS24 section, dedicated to delivering the most recent news on the latest trends for the upcoming seasons, detailing the newest fabrics and collections for fashion businesses and buyers, and offering a crucial overview of upcoming insights, colours, patterns, and styles.

The section features predictions from globally recognized trend forecasters, with comprehensive coverage across all fashion categories, including womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, footwear, and accessories, as well as subcategories such as denim, sustainability, and digital fashion.

With new brands unveiling their SS24 collections on a daily basis, FashionUnited’s SS24 section is the go-to platform for buyers, equipping them with the necessary resources to stay competitive for the upcoming season and beyond. As a leading international B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects over a million fashion professionals monthly, with an aim to enhance efficiency and transparency for all stakeholders in the industry.

Read more about the trends of SS24 here.

The Fashion Education Network is a space for schools and educators from various well-known fashion schools to share the most relevant and up-to-date news and knowledge. The platform aims to move the industry forward by providing emerging talents with the connections and resources they need to build a bright future in fashion. Therefore, to further facilitate access to local specific news on the most recent developments in fashion education, FashionUnited recently launched local pages for country-specific fashion education news in Europe. The Special Education Pages enable industry enthusiasts to stay up to date on the latest news in the fashion education scene relevant to their respective country, and provided in their local language.

FashionUnited's Special Education Pages serve as a comprehensive hub for all matters related to fashion education in each country. This includes: graduate fashion shows, the latest fashion programs, ongoing summer courses and fashion design competitions, bridging the gap between education and the industry. They gather information about students' latest developments in fashion and the academic progress of the sector, allowing educators and professionals to gain new knowledge and keep abreast of trends in the fashion learning environment.

The country-specific pages also feature valuable resources such as the Fashion School and Course Directory, which provides a detailed overview of leading fashion institutions and programmes, as well as a global Internship Directory, featuring a cohesive catalog of career opportunities in different locations. Furthermore, the pages can be easily accessed through the local main FashionUnited website in the side menu. By providing these features, the Special Education Page offers readers access to news articles in their local language and helpful features related to fashion education.

As the global leading B2B network, FashionUnited provides valuable content and insights about the industry. Connecting over one million fashion professionals and enthusiasts each month, the platform offers the most recent fashion news, supporting readers in expanding their knowledge and easily navigating through the most recent happenings in fashion.

Visit the local Special Education Page and explore an array of educational information, resources and inspiring content.

Every year organisations, federations, schools, and brands in the fashion industry host a variety of events, conferences, exhibitions and fashion weeks to showcase and discuss the most recent collections, trends and matters driving fashion. These range from the upcoming Spring Summer 2024 collections to virtual events, like Metaverse Fashion Week, and fashion trade summits held by organisations, such as Global Fashion Agenda and AAFA, to name just a few.

FashionUnited’s Global Events Calendar helps fashion professionals and experts plan ahead for the upcoming B2B fashion events, providing them with a comprehensive overview of the leading events in the industry. More than 200,000 professionals currently use the global events calendar, establishing it as the go-to platform for staying informed about the year’s upcoming events. With over two decades of industry presence, FashionUnited offers the most relevant information for upcoming fashion events, collected in one single and easily accessible place.

As an independent international B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals monthly with the goal to make the industry more efficient and transparent. Provided with the means to easily retrieve information about over 500 fashion events in advance, fashion professionals and enthusiasts are able to boost their industry knowledge. Therefore, helping them to make the most efficient and informed decisions for coming seasons, whether it be in-person or virtual events.

International B2B network FashionUnited’s AI-aided lookbook is helping to connect emerging designers with fashion professionals from across the world.

With the profound transformation the fashion industry is currently experiencing - whether that concerns sustainability or digital fashion - the growth and integration of the industry’s future generation is more important than ever. But young designers face a host of challenges when entering the sector, such as how to showcase their new collections to the broad and competitive fashion world.

That’s something FashionUnited is facilitating with its lookbook, a comprehensive image database allowing users to share visuals of the latest trends and collections spanning luxury, fast fashion, and sustainable brands. Every year, leading fashion schools such as the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), London College of Fashion (UAL), and Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), organise fashion runways to showcase their latest graduate collections. Sharing the images of these promising collections in the FashionUnited Lookbook gives students an early start to make a name for themselves and launch their careers. The visual material from each graduate collection is shared by the fashion schools themselves, collected by FashionUnited and uploaded to the lookbook respectively. Simultaneously, fashion professionals can leverage this AI-aided lookbook to instantly access over 100,000 images of those collections in one convenient place, using a simple search function and keywords such as “graduate”.

As the leading international B2B network, FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals every month, providing a well-connected and ever-growing platform for up-and-coming designers to get the best possible start to their careers by offering them maximum exposure to the broader fashion industry.

Check out 2023 graduate collections in the lookbook and explore recent graduate’s collections that are showcased:

• Explore the collection of IFM here.
• Explore the collection of London College of Fashion here.
• Explore the collection of ESNE University of Design and Technology here.

As demand for sustainable fashion continues to grow, increasingly more organizations, including federations, fashion weeks, luxury houses, and fast fashion brands are challenged to adjust their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts and transparency accordingly.

Social and environmental sustainability in fashion sheds light on several issues, ranging from overproduction and brand pollution to poor conditions faced by many garment workers. For this reason, independent fashion organizations such as: Clean Clothes Campaign, Fashion for Good, Remake, and Fashion Revolution have taken it upon themselves to bring attention to the urgency of such issues. This collective action is driving a massive transformation in the fashion sector towards circularity, which is ultimately shaping the fashion news agenda of media platforms.

Given the relevance of this topic, FashionUnited has launched a dedicated page to provide professionals and businesses with an overview of the latest news in sustainability. The new section will provide readers with easy access to all the most relevant news that cohesively spans sustainable fabrics, new regulation and legislation, resources, circular fashion, and greenwashing, among other topics.

As a leading B2B fashion platform connecting over one million industry professionals monthly, the new dedicated sustainability page will become the go-to place for professionals to explore the latest trends, developments, and news concerning sustainable fashion to ensure they are up-to-date with the fast-evolving sector.

As the international B2B network continues to grow, FashionUnited has an important responsibility to highlight these crucial issues to improve transparency in the fashion industry. Consequently, awareness on sustainability and circularity is more important than ever, as current business practices are enormously compromising the natural environment and the living conditions of all the people that make up the fashion industry.

Read the most recent sustainable fashion news here.

Education is where the journey of every fashion professional begins. Whether the focus lies in design, business management or technology, educational institutions collectively establish the ground from which the industry grows.

Fashion education is rich in content and learning opportunities that are constantly growing and evolving to keep up with the rapid changes in the dynamic world of fashion. Besides training and learning, new perspectives and practices from emerging talents are born in fashion education, and to eventually become high-end fashion creatives, such as Marc Jacobs, Carolina Herrera, Domenico Dolce, and Stella McCartney.

To connect leading fashion institutions and educators from around the world, FashionUnited launched The Fashion Education Network in 2009. The online platform connects the global fashion education market, providing a space where educators and schools can connect with other organizations, students, and leading brands.

On top of connecting the industry, The Fashion Education Network also shares the latest and most relevant news from the world's top fashion schools, such as UAL (London College of Fashion), FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), Central Saint Martins, Parsons, Istituto Marangoni, and IFM (Institut Français de la Mode) among others. Additionally, the network features a comprehensive school and course directory compiling a list of different fashion education programs offered by some of the most prestigious schools and institutes from across the world.

Additionally, FashionUnited provides valuable information and resources, such as the searchable catalog for internships that helps students to easily connect with leading brands like Nike, Tiffany & Co., Chanel, and PVH. Allowing them to expand their knowledge and experience, building career opportunities in the fashion industry from an early stage. This eventually contributes to the development of a talented and skilled future generation of fashion professionals.

As a leading B2B network, FashionUnited facilitates the interaction between schools and global fashion companies to help build a more efficient industry. FashionUnited currently connects one million professionals each month - and that number continues to grow. With The Fashion Education Network, FashionUnited is creating a space where schools and educators share news, knowledge, and opportunities with each other. With this, moving the industry forward and enabling emerging talents the connections and resources they need to build a bright future in fashion.

Read more about The Fashion Education Network.

As the global B2B fashion network, FashionUnited launched a free and special section dedicated to the latest need-to-know news about AW23 trends. The fast-evolving fashion industry continues to recover from the pandemic, with fashion weeks and events back in full swing. Brands introducing their AW23 collections, the buying season quickly approaching, and digitisation playing an increasingly important role, fashion professionals need to react quickly to remain competitive.

That is where FashionUnited comes in, creating a new section providing fashion businesses and buyers with all the latest news about the upcoming trends and collections for the AW23 season.

The new dedicated section on FashionUnited’s site provides buyers with a unique and crucial overview of trend insights and news for the upcoming buying season, including information on the latest fabrics, colours, patterns, and styles.

The platform includes insights from world-renowned trend forecasters who outline their visions for the season, as well as nuanced looks into categories, such as denim, sustainability, and digital fashion. The section comprehensively spans womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, footwear, and accessories.

With many brands adding new collections every day during the AW23 buying period, the platform is the go-to place for buyers to be as prepared, and thus as competitive as possible, ahead of the upcoming season. As an independent international B2B fashion network, FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals monthly with the goal to make the fashion industry more efficient and transparent.

Read more about the trends of AW23 here.

A significant part of the global fashion industry is driven by large organizational entities that strengthen the impact of fashion on the world economy. Federations connect the different parts of the fashion business, from the manufacturing level to the creative direction. Thus, becoming the ambassadors of the textile and apparel sector. Some focus on promoting the newest fashion designs and textiles worldwide by hosting trade fairs and fashion shows. While other federations address cross-industry issues that impact economic policies, seeking sustainable and innovative solutions for the industry.

As a leading international B2B platform, FashionUnited maintains the Fashion Federations Directory, a database of apparel federations and trade organizations worldwide. The Directory includes over 100 entities, ranging from trade to non-profit organizations. For each of the listed federations, fashion professionals find a profile page with their mission and vision, along with other relevant information. Through the Federation Directory, professionals have the opportunity to connect with associations that share their values and objectives, whether it is trade initiatives, the metaverse or fashion activism.

The Directory includes various networks in footwear, accessories, sustainability, as well as digital fashion. Some of them are large associations, such as AAFA, IAF, and EURATEX, while others are dedicated to sustainable or digital fashion, like the Metaverse Fashion Council, Fashion Revolution, or Global Fashion Agenda.This way, fellow professionals can easily connect with the organizations of interest and find the most relevant insights collected in a single place!

FashionUnited connects over one million fashion professionals a month, bringing more efficiency and transparency to the industry. The Fashion Federations Directory invites other stakeholders to actively participate in a network promoting transformation and accelerating sustainable growth in the global fashion industry. The Directory strengthens and expands the global B2B network FashionUnited has built over the past 20 years, creating a unique platform where fashion professionals, knowledge and resources are brought together in one place.

Read more about the Fashion Federations Directory here.

The fashion industry is constantly growing, introducing new brands in various categories, whether it is digital, sustainable, circular, or fast fashion. The value of the fashion sector is estimated at nearly two trillion US dollars, making it possible for the industry to expand in many directions.

As an international B2B network, FashionUnited introduces the Brand Directory, entailing a collection of over 4,000 brands, and counting. The directory is accessible to the public and each of the brands has a page summarising all relevant information about the brand, such as the mission, contact information, and the location. Through providing transparent and comprehensive overviews of various brands, fashion professionals can easily find out more about them. Thus, strengthening the connection between professionals and companies in the industry.

The ever growing Brand Directory amongst other products and services, plays a crucial role in expanding and optimising the global B2B network of FashionUnited, through providing transparent and skillful navigation. FashionUnited strives to make the industry more efficient by connecting over one million of fashion professionals monthly. FashionUnited's business intelligence has been optimised for over 20 years and has grown to develop tools that contribute to progressing the global fashion industry.

Find out more about the brands in the Fashion Brands Directory here.

In an era marked by the rapid digitization of the fashion and accessories sector, brands and retailers are grappling with the need to optimize their product data management processes to better compete in the omnichannel world.

The intricacies and complexities of data requirements across platforms and retailers have exposed a lack of collaboration and efficiency, which FashionUnited has tasked itself with addressing.

FashionUnited has developed a tool for comprehensive product database management, facilitating timely and precise exchange of standardized data, saving companies time, money, and valuable workforce resources.

Instant access to abundant information

This new product database operates in an easy, straightforward way: Collaborating partner brands contribute their product information, which the system collects and converts from raw data into a uniform format. The standardized information is then sent back to the brand owner, who can share it with their retail partners. It’s that simple!

The product database meticulously archives essential details - type, fabric, color, size, and product codes, among others - allowing retailers to effortlessly access the optimized data to use for various purposes. This saves brands valuable time collecting and verifying information across different sources.

FashionUnited’s tool ensures accurate statistics in synchronized formats, with an easy-to-use front-end section of the product database allowing consumers to compare products using a logical filtering system.

Empowering a transparent and efficient fashion industry

The new database provides a one-stop platform to efficiently store and share product data. Over 200,000 items are added each season, which continuously refines the AI's capabilities and enhances the system’s accuracy.

As one of the largest independent and international B2B networks in the fashion industry, FashionUnited connects more than 1 million fashion professionals monthly, helping make the industry more efficient and transparent each day.

As of now, the tool is free of service for FashionUnited members and retailers worldwide to use.

For more information contact FashionUnited catalog@fashionunited.com

Sustainability is essential in the fashion industry and with that comes the need for certifications to navigate through the complex market; whether that is labor rights, chemical control, circular standards, or fair trade for example. However, there is no official mandate for any company to verify the sustainability of their products and practices, so many different certifications and networks exist in the fashion industry.

To provide transparency to our readers, FashionUnited provides an overview of the leading sustainability certifications organized by their different categories. These labels can evaluate brands’ sustainability efforts in different aspects of production or the supply chain, applying to raw materials, end products, and/or processes. Some organizations specialize in performing audits only, others also provide educational initiatives, business support and lobbying.

As the transparency of supply chains of brands seem to blur, terms like greenwashing gain more attention in the industry. Greenwashing describes companies “conveying the false impression that a company’s products are more environmentally friendly than they are”. Hence these labels are relevant for consumers and businesses to navigate through the complexity of sustainability in the fashion industry to make more conscious purchase decisions. The Sustainability Certification Page comprises a list of organizations which issue different sustainability certifications along with a brief explanation of what the biggest labels mean. As the global B2B network, FashionUnited aims to make the fashion industry more transparent and efficient.

As an independent B2B media business, FashionUnited provides a platform for the growing demand to enable connection and global exchange amongst businesses involved in fashion, and share relevant events addressing social and environmental sustainability. The latter has become a pressing challenge in the fashion industry which many events are addressing from various angles, such as circularity, digitalization, and transparency.

See below FashionUnited’s roundup of all the events, fashion shows and fairs exclusively dedicated to sustainability and circularity taking place around the globe.

AAFA Traceability & Sustainability Conference (USA, PA)
The conference provides various innovative business solutions and resources implementing the ESG goals. Simultaneously, the conference aims for transparency and sustainability throughout the supply chain of brands which is essential to fostering responsible policies and practices.

Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week (Spain)
The annual Bridal Fashion Week is devoted to diversity, equality, and justice in bringing together designers, buyers, wedding planners and future brides to encourage inclusivity and innovation in bridal fashion.

Better Cotton Conference (Sweden and online)
The largest cotton sustainability programme organisation holds regular events to share knowledge and discuss various topics intertwining fashion and the cotton industry, as well as supporting communities to maintain and grow sustainably.

Circular Fashion Summit (Global/Metaverse)
Connecting circularity and digital fashion on a large scale, the Circular Fashion Summit assembles these parts and connects people globally in the metaverse to discuss forward-thinking solutions to evolve fashion for the better.

Copenhagen Fashion Week (Denmark)
The Nordic biannual fashion week displays various events with the CIFF trade show the longest-running fair in Northern Europe - showcasing the industry’s directional and progressive brands for womenswear and menswear.

Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week (Netherlands)
The number one sustainable fashion week in the Netherlands is committed to giving sustainable fashion a wide platform where diverse fashion businesses participate each year to collectively move forward sustainability in the industry.

Fashionablyin London (UK)
Since 2011, Fashionablyin connects suppliers, agents and buyers virtually across the globe to provide them quick and efficient access to disseminate in new markets.

Fashion Revolution Week (Global)
The Fashion Revolution Week is a unique global event committed to activism in the fashion industry valuing the people and environment by encouraging brands to make the production chains transparent and safer.

Fashion SVP - The Responsible Sourcing Event (United Kingdom)
The conference is the number one sustainable apparel sourcing event in the UK. It presents the quality of ethical and responsible production, as well as connects people involved in the technical and detailed work.

Future Fabrics Expo by The Sustainable Angle (UK)
The largest dedicated showcase of globally sourced, commercially available sustainably and responsibly produced fabrics and materials.

Functional Fabric Fair New York (USA, NY)
Cultivating a culture of inclusion is essential to the Functional Fabric Fair as they bring together partners, speakers and visitors from various backgrounds to share the latest trends in fabric development for the functional textile industry in the United States.

Neonyt Lab by Messe Frankfurt (Germany)
From end consumers to fashion professionals, Neonyt Lab bridges technology, sustainability and innovation as essential elements changing the fashion industry - the design, procedures and production methods.

The Australian Circular Fashion Conference (Australia)
The Circular Fashion Conference is the go-to event in Australia concerning sustainability to counteract the negative environmental impacts caused by the fashion industry.

Global Fashion Summit (Denmark)
The leading global forum for sustainability, putting collaboration on the pedestal of businesses’ obligations and needs. Insights shared on stage of the conference set the agenda on the most critical environmental, social and ethical issues facing the industry.

IMPACT (France)
The fashion week IMPACT organised by Who’s Next presents diverse brands, manufacturers, solutions, collectives, associations, exhibitions, as well as talks sharing innovative and sustainable ways of producing and consuming fashion.

PERFORMANCE DAYS (Germany)
The biannual fair assembles experts, designers, purchasing and material managers around sustainability in sourcing of functional fabrics.

Portland Fashion Week (USA, OR)
The only carbon-negative Fashion Week in the world. The event shares the philosophy of slow fashion and brings awareness to the importance of the quality and value of clothing, as well as its origin.

RAW TO A T event by RawAssembly (Australia)
Focusing on raw materials, manufacturers, retailers, and textile innovators, the conference strives to reduce the fashion industry’s impact by addressing the complex challenge of waste reduction and balancing consumption with sustainability.

Redress Design Awards (Hong Kong)
The Redress Design Award is the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition aimed at growing the industry towards a circular fashion system. It is organised by Redress, a pioneering Hong Kong based NGO working to reduce textile waste in the fashion industry.

Sustainability Summit by the Sourcing Journal (USA, NY)
The conference assembles experts, brands, and retailers sharing insights and knowledge on how to navigate through the challenges of the fashion industry to achieve the sustainability targets.

SUSTEXMODA (Brazil)
The go-to event in Brazil seeking effective solutions and disseminating information to reduce the negative impacts caused by the Textile Chain and fashion industry - economically, socially, and environmentally.

Textile Sustainability Conference (Ireland)
In this conference, the powerful communities of Textile Exchange and Sustainable Apparel Coalition unite leaders from across the industry to tackle urgent climate action on textile fibre and materials.

The Sustainable Fashion Forum conference (USA, OR)
A conference for conscious sustainability enthusiasts and advocates of all industry levels. The event spearheads meaningful conversation at the intersection of fashion, sustainability, ethics, and culture, with the goal of encouraging change.

White Street Market (Italy)
The WSM is the first trade show entirely committed to new technologies and research to move a real eco and digital transition in the fashion industry which is open to all fashion-related businesses and end consumers.

World Circular Textiles Day (UK and Global)
A yearly conference exploring and celebrating circularity progress, specifically in the area of textiles, as well as ways of achieving it through visceral motivation, collectivism, joined-up thinking, and building a roadmap.

Whether it is circularity, fair wages, transparency in the supply chain, responsible sourcing, waste management for environmental sustainability, more and more companies integrate different aspects of sustainability into their production and supply chains. As various areas in sustainability are constantly growing, FashionUnited provides an Event Calendar with all the relevant events across the globe.

After two years defined by a pandemic - a time of distress but also lessons in patience, flexibility and innovation - the global industry of fashion events came back to life with a plethora of exciting shows. FashionUnited’s Global Events Calendar provides fashion professionals and experts with a clear overview of more than 300 relevant fashion events globally, in order to plan their schedules in advance.

From in-person international fashion weeks to virtual B2B collection showcases, from global fashion trade shows to conferences, exhibitions, and networking events - The FashionUnited Events Calendar is constantly up-to-date with the most important events of the year. Each event is accompanied by a description, dates, location and a URL on where to find further information. Thanks to over two decades of industry presence, FashionUnited can provide the most reliable fashion event information.

Knowing in advance what events are happening will help boost your industry credentials and aid in making the most efficient decisions. Whether you are a fashion professional or just a fashion enthusiast, these are the key events - both in-person and digitally - in the fashion industry in the following months. 

With another fashion buying season coming to an end, and first FW22 collections already available online, the time has come to look back at this year, which is characterised by the industry visibly moving towards full digitalization.

Each fashion season FashionUnited brings a unique database of articles, collection videos, trend analysis, interviews, and other content. In 2021, thousands of original pieces, as well as hundreds of full fashion collections have been made available to professionals across the globe via FashionUnited’s redesigned Trends Page. Each article has been created, collected, and communicated entirely for free, helping to make fashion e-commerce more efficient and transparent.

Over 3,000 brands have already become part of the comprehensive AI powered Marketplace, where 200,000 products are being showcased to accredited buyers 24/7. Become part of the international community of digital fashion professionals and source the latest trends in a streamlined way! Join the B2B Marketplace now!

Ensuring transparent news content for future generations

When searching online for fashion news, jobs, or any other fashion industry related data, you can be almost sure to end up on FashionUnited. For over 20 years, the B2B network has been collecting, creating and communicating relevant content to the industry in over 30 countries worldwide.

FashionUnited’s team continuously explores innovative ways to create transparent, valuable, and diverse content, and making sure it reaches fashion professionals worldwide in an efficient way. Readers can stay up to date with the news on retail, trends, fairs, education, fashion, people and much more thanks to around 70,000 articles, videos and podcasts published yearly in 10 different languages.

According to Unesco, the incredible amount of transparent information is worth preserving for future research as 'digital heritage' and has been chosen to be additionally archived and protected within the Dutch Royal Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek/ KB). Beginning 28th December 2021, the KB will be legally responsible for the collection, description and preservation of publications of FashionUnited.NL. With the goal of preserving it permanently, the KB will keep them accessible for future generations and protect them from loss through, for instance, technological obsolescence.

To stay up to date with the latest news in Dutch, click here.

FashionUnited.nl has been nominated for the first time for Website of the Year in the News category, making it the only nominated B2B trade publication! Until November 17 everyone can cast their vote here.

The annual award is organized by business platform Emerce and market research agency Multiscope. Each year more than 500,000 votes are cast, divided into 40 different categories.

Why vote for FashionUnited as Website of the Year 2021?

Being nominated is a great honor. Fashion professionals are among the most demanding news consumers, always looking for accurate and transparent information in the rapidly changing industry.

And it is to you, FashionUnited readers, that the platform is constantly improving, whether through technical or content advancements. By voting, you can provide us with the ultimate feedback and evaluate the platform and its various components: overall design, speed, and high quality content.

In this video, fashion designer Laura Biagiotti has presented her SS22 collection at Milano Fashion Week (MFW).

Video: FF Channel via YouTube

Photo credit: Laura Biagiotti, Facebook

Fashion companies are looking for more employees now, than ever before. The number of jobs posted on FashionUnited’s platforms have gone up by 35% compared to pre-covid. The number of vacancies has well surpassed 20.000, compared to the 15.000 jobs that were online continuously in 2019.

With the economy picking up consumers are spending more on fashion, therefore fashion retailers are looking for more people to join their teams in order to fulfill consumers demand. After a turbulent year and a half, job seekers can search among 20.000 international fashion jobs in areas of retail, sales marketing, design, supply chain, internships and many others through FashionUnited.

The global pandemic presented many new challenges, all industries had to face their biggest fear: change. While new recruitment trends have been steadily accelerating across all industries, fashion has been facing additional difficulties, like increased competitiveness and the need to expand beyond existing talent pools as candidates moved to other industries during lockdowns.

With nearly 200,000 jobs per year millions of applications are generated for the various fashion companies. Thanks to industry promotion of vacancies and innovative recruitment strategies, fashion companies can showcase their opportunities among fitting potential candidates. The growing volume of jobs on the independent B2B platform is making the industry more efficient and transparent, enabling companies and people to find their best match. Simple and complete platform services, together with the career center match brands with the best people in fashion. Active in 30 countries and 10 languages, companies can expand their recruiting activities globally, and extensively brand themselves among qualified professionals.

For more information on how to use the FashionUnited multi channel recruitment strategy contact jobs@fashionunited.com

In April 2021, the Council of Fashion Designers of America hosted a webinar series in recognition of Earth Month. Three leading experts in circularity and sustainability talked about practices and practical guidance for brands that are looking to begin their circularity journey.

In the second part of the webinar series, three brand leaders shared how they’ve integrated circularity and recommerce into their businesses.

The third episode featured innovators who provided insights on how a brand can integrate and practice circularity through supply chain transparency and traceability.

Video source: CFDA via Youtube

Thousands of content pieces, including articles, webinars, collection videos and more, as well as hundreds of full fashion collections have been offered to professionals across the globe via FashionUnited’s redesigned Trends Page.

They have been created, collected, and communicated entirely for free, aiding fashion buyers, brands and retailers to navigate the fully digital buying reality.

In addition to finding comprehensive trend inspiration, accredited buyers can become members of the AI powered Marketplace for free, and comfortably browse over 150,000 products all in one place. Currently, over 3,000 brands have been included in the Brand Directory.

FashionUnited’s goal is to make the fashion industry more efficient and transparent, and to assist industry professionals in making their work in fashion as easy as possible. With new SS22 collection information being added every day, FashionUnited has become a go-to place for buyers to source the latest trends in a well-planned way.

Stay informed about the upcoming seasons via FashionUnited, the thematic newsletters, and social media channels. Join the B2B Marketplace today and become part of the international community of buyers and brands.

As part of the FashionUnited’s Education Network, the new free-to-access Fashion School Directory offers prospective fashion students the best possible overview of schools, universities and other educational institutes around the world teaching about the various facets of the apparel industry.

Over 200 schools from over 30 different countries are collated in the continuously updated catalogue, which can be browsed and filtered with help of innovative AI-powered search. The directory is yet another tool along with the already successful online FashionUnited education resource, which offers a database of specific fashion courses and relevant industry news.

The Fashion Education Network launched over 10 years ago, aims to build a bridge between fashion education and the industry by promoting interaction and sharing knowledge. By bringing transparency to the global fashion industry and its educational programmes, connecting future professionals to companies becomes more efficient. The Fashion School Directory is intended to give prospective students a tool to help them make an informed choice about where to study.

For more information about the International Fashion School Directory, please contact education@fashionunited.com

Available now, all fashion trend information is compiled and shared on the new FashionUnited Trends section.

The special section contains the latest fashion trends and reports from all over the world including trend predictions, and opinions from multiple trend forecasters and agencies, like Fashion Snoops, Peclers Paris, Trendstop, Christine Boland and more. The in-depth look into markets, global and locally, offers a unique overview of the fashion industry now and what is to come.

The content is classified by topic, season, and segment. You can easily find articles about denim and footwear styles, as well as color and fabric predictions, for example. Additionally, the Trend page shares the latest runway collections of hundreds of today’s hottest brands in article and video form.

Depending on the season, buyers, brands and retailers all benefit from the carefully curated trend information. The categories, together with an intuitive layout make it easy to find the information you are looking for, but also wander around for inspiration.

Visit fashionunited.com/trends and get the latest trend updates.

To help fashion brands face the new normal with efficiency, FashionUnited expands its support towards the ever changing industry through a strategic partnership with Anton Dell. By teaming up with the globally established fashion industry consulting firm, FashionUnited will expand its B2B Marketplace services.

Anton Dell has over 20 years of experience in matching brands with agents and distributors all over the world. In the maze of saturated markets and challenging expansion forecasts, Anton Dell helps brands to find suitable agents and distributors worldwide as well as build their new international identity. The network of 22k sales agents in over 30 countries worldwide ensures that brands are being supported in an effective and tailored way.

Valued for his quick response and incomparable knowledge of the industry, Anton Dell shares FashionUnited’s belief in the value of lifetime relationships. Anton Dell’s reliability and competence are among the traits most frequently stressed by his network and ones that make his client database continuously grow and come back.

Together with Anton Dell Consultancy, FashionUnited will continue supporting fashion brands in their pursuit of efficient international expansion in a highly strategic and best-priced way.

Photo credit: Anton Dell

In this video, french fashion label Hermès has presented its FW21 menswear collection. The collection was made with the intention of committing to reconnect with the movement of the world and the use of lines and colours in the range are there to embody a source of energy.

Do you want to see more FW21 clothing collections? Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace.

Source: Hermès via YouTube

Following the launch of the FashionUnited Marketplace earlier this year, FashionUnited continues with its aim to create an efficient and fun platform for industry professionals with the Marketplace’s innovative AI-powered search software.

An effortless shopping experience is provided for fashion buyers with FashionUnited’s easy-to-navigate Marketplace, its image content is automatically recognised and the appropriate labels are assigned from millions of predefined categories.

By using enhanced data in the search, the products can be identified in the most straightforward and intuitive way. Moreover, retailers can get FashionUnited’s enhanced data and use it in their systems, platforms, webshops and more.

After years of observing users’ needs and behaviours, FashionUnited offers the latest AI-powered search software based on these learnings. Click here to view the FashionUnited Marketplace. Within the directory, buyers can efficiently search through exclusive brands and products to purchase in-demand items for their stores. Accredited buyers get exclusive access to the most in-demand products on the Marketplace for free.

BOBBLEHAUS(@bobblehaus) -the women-founded, genderless, eco-consciousbrand -is excited to announce La Casa de BOBBLEHAUS: The Secret Garden, an immersive pop-up experience in partnership with La Casa Arthouseand with the support of TENCEL™, specialty fiber brand for textile. The Secret Garden will provide a COVID-safe environment compliant with all current New York City restrictions, and will be open at 650 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn until January 23rd, 2021.

La Casa de BOBBLEHAUS: The Secret Gardenis a hybrid collective that specializes in working with artists, designers and brands to showcase ideas from conception through to exhibition and to showcase the combined community of creators. BOBBLEHAUS and La Casa have called upon friends, artists, designers, and its community members to build a modular space, where they can all create together. The line-up of artists and designers featured inThe Secret Garden will change every single week, to create an immersive and interactive experience featuring art, music, design, fashion, and technology.

The story of The Secret Gardenis curious, mysterious, wondrous, and charming. Common sense, truth, kindness, compassion, and a belief in the essential goodness of human beings all lie at the heart of this unforgettable novel. While so much has been out of people’s control this year, BOBBLEHAUS and La Casa wanted to give their spirits a second life through the story of their pop-up. Neglected things wither and die, but things that are cared for, thrive.

BOBBLEHAUS, as an eco-conscious brand, sources 100% of its fabrics from deadstock materials, including certified recycled cotton mixes and TENCEL™ branded lyocell fibers, a material produced from sustainably sourced wood that makes up 80% of its line. The Secret Garden pop-up will also set out to educate their shoppers and consumers on what TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers is as well as its environmentally responsible processes through informational hang tags and display materials in-store.

The Secret Garden pop-up will strictly enforce all COVID safety protocols and regulations among its staff and customers -including mandatory temperature checks and hand sanitizer upon arrival and face masks required at all times. There will also be a “secret” tree in the space, where you can leave your secrets, hopes, or wishes for the New Year.

“Many have asked us, ‘Why a physical pop-up during a global pandemic?’ Our answer? Communities build the strongest connection we have: human connection. In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, remaining, and blooming, even in secret.” -Abi Lierheimer, co-founder and creative director of BOBBLEHAUS.

To give buyers an overview of the fall/winter 2021-22 collections and to offer unique trend insights, FashionUnited has announced the FW21 United Kickoff campaign.

To unite the fashion industry and connect even more professionals, thousands of users will come together in January on the FashionUnited network for FW21 webinars presented on a free platform.

With many traditional trade events postponed or cancelled, the fashion industry is moving faster towards digitisation and the upcoming buying season will not be as we are used to.

Having the right information has never been more crucial for fashion buyers. With the launch of the FashionUnited Marketplace, an easy-to-navigate marketplace has been created which allows browsing collections and searching by themes as accessible as possible for buyers.

With many brands adding collections every day, the Marketplace is quickly becoming the go-to place for buyers to source and purchase the latest trends ahead of the upcoming seasons and/or to buy current stock.

As an independent international B2B fashion network, FashionUnited’s goal is to make the fashion industry more efficient and transparent, and to assist industry professionals in making their careers in fashion easier.

For more information on the FW21 United Kickoff, keep an eye out for FashionUnited’s latest social media posts, and the campaign articles which will be available in five different languages.

Photo credit: Pexels

INTERVIEW Joshua Williams, the host of NewsBytes and creator of the weekly podcast series, Retail Revolution, has been gaining attention for his in-depth conversations with special guest speakers such as photographer Nigel Barker (America's Next Top Model) and Luisa Herrera-Garcia (SVP of Production at John Varvatos). A professor and consultant, Williams is currently the MPS Associate Director at Parsons School of Design and is often asked to speak at events worldwide as well as appear on news broadcasts to share his expertise on current issues in the fashion industry and fashion higher education. Also the founder of Fashion Consort, a consultancy that draws on a deep network of experts and professionals to produce content that inspires, entertains and educates businesses, students and consumers. Williams launched his short-form podcast in February as a more personal and intimate way to connect with an audience. Less than a year later, News Bytes is being distributed in partnership with FashionUnited to expand its international reach.

Tell us about Fashion Consort, how did it begin?

I started Fashion Consort to really rethink what fashion could be. After 13 years in e-commerce and online marketing, I realized early on as a VP of Marketing and a Director of Branding/Web Strategy that there was a democratization of the fashion conversation. Today, our clients have included Vh1 Save the Music, Miguelina and WindowsWear. Fashion Consort is on a mission to facilitate learning and knowledge, and to engage in open and honest conversations, all with a goal to better our shared future.

Your podcasts seem to focus on current issues, innovations and authentic human connections. How do you think the way we connect has changed because of the global pandemic?

Before the pandemic, I’d always have to put on my armour going into business meetings. I feel that this crisis has made the fashion industry peer behind the screen, meaning it has allowed us to know more about one another on a personal level. During video calls, we’re now seeing a glimpse into the homes of major designers, executives or getting to know our colleagues in their home life. I hope that when we come back from this crisis, this more personal connection between everyone in the industry will remain.

How do you think these changes have affected the fashion industry creatively?

I think there has also been a renaissance of creativity that’s happening as the fashion industry is propelled into adapting to new forms of content creation and technology. Today, it’s Tik Tok, but tomorrow there will be a new trend on the horizon.

Did you always want to work in fashion and can you share any advice with young professionals just about to enter this industry?

I’ve always been curious and coming from a theater and music background, a natural creator. It was while I was writing and marketing Broadway shows that I tried my hand at producing a fashion show. That experience made me see how fast paced the fashion industry is when it comes to realizing ideas, which was not the case in theater. It really ignited my interest in this industry of creativity and commerce.

When did you start recording podcasts and why?

As a fashion consultant, I help train companies, so I wanted to find a better and more engaging way to communicate and educate people. Podcasts are a great way to engage listeners differently, in a large part because most people these days are so busy and may not have time to read long articles.

Around February of this year, I started News Bytes to go underneath and to really get behind the surface of the glimmering image of fashion. For example, when I interview top executives or celebrities, I ask them what issues they face in their jobs or the struggles they have to overcome to remain at the top. In the realm of fashion education, with all the students graduating digitally, I discuss pressing issues such as how will they find jobs in the design industry virtually.

I was already teaching retail in class to graduate students at Parsons right before Covid hit and I had all of these special guests, CEOs and executives that I wanted to bring into class, but couldn’t anymore. So with my colleague, Christopher Lacy, we started Retail Revolution and recorded ten episodes within a week.

Then, we realized that more and more people were tuning in. Something that came out of just trying to help solve a problem now has around 500 downloads per episode. I see these weekly podcasts as a platform where my guest speakers and I can be critical, offer different perspectives and a space to have open discussions addressing topics that matter to the industry from all angles. As a fashion educator, I’m constantly speaking to students who are the zeitgeist of their generation and the demographic these fashion companies market to. I see the News Bytes podcast series as an honest platform for open dialogue, to discuss ideas and find solutions.

How did the partnership between Fashion Consort and FashionUnited come about and what do you envision with this collaboration?

Around September, my weekly podcasts were getting traction online. At the same time, I was also featured in the case study FashionUnited contributor, Jackie Mallon, reported on Black Lives Matter in a fashion school. I’ve always appreciated FashionUnited’s unique stories, so I reached out directly to Esmerij, the editor-in-chief. We hit it off immediately and I see our partnership as a vehicle in exploration and sharing of knowledge to interact with an even wider audience.

Photos: courtesy of Joshua Williams

Following the launch of the FashionUnited B2B wholesale Marketplace earlier this year, over 3.000 fashion brands have been added to the directory and hundreds of collections have been added to the platform. Over 30.000 buyers in the FashionUnited network can now access a worldwide purchasing platform.

With many brands adding collections every day, the Marketplace is quickly becoming the go-to place for buyers to source and purchase the latest trends ahead of SS21 and/or to buy current stock.

The Marketplace also boasts a frequently updated collection of the most in-demand products and fashion trends, helpfully collated in one place. Uniting wholesale fashion brands in one place allows for valuable insight into the most profitable items for retailers, as consumer demand for unique items increases.

Thanks to the easy to navigate menu, members are efficiently and smoothly finding exactly what product they are looking for, out of thousands of the most desirable clothing items spanning a range of categories including everything from womenswear to face coverings.

Accredited buyers can become members of the rapidly expanding Marketplace for free, and have the opportunity to browse thousands of products from some of the world's most creative brands all in one place. Fashion buyers and brand owners can connect via fashionunited.com/marketplace.

In an ultimate attempt to unite the fashion industry and connect even more professionals, FashionUnited launched a B2B Marketplace providing apparel buyers with unique trend insights and brand collection overviews.

The world is changing and moving faster than ever towards the digitization of the industry. With many traditional trade events postponed or canceled, B2B trade is more complicated than ever, but having the right information has never been more crucial for fashion buyers.

Exclusive trend information for fashion buyers is specifically available for FashionUnited Buyer Members. Members can find the latest trends, news articles, video shows, webinars, and podcasts tailored for Fashion Buyers. The marketplace offers an efficient and transparent online overview of what fashion brands have available in current and future collections. Everything focused on providing the best possible information for buyers in the fashion industry.

Fashion brands can quickly and easily connect to the Marketplace with their existing B2B webshop from anywhere. They do not need to invest more time and effort in new technology and can provide buyers with information easily. They can now simply allow them to see current and pre-order collections.

In collaboration with Trade Fairs and Fashion Centers internationally, a 365 - 24/7 trade environment will be available for both current and SS21 collections. An important aspect of the Marketplace is that it unites existing organizations and activities which have moved online so that all stakeholders in the industry benefit as soon as possible and at the lowest possible costs.

Photo credit: Catwalkpictures.com, Altuzarra, Autumn-Winter 2020

In times of uncertainty, reliable information is vital when combating assumptions and fake news. FashionUnited has been the industry’s independent and trusted source for over 20 years and takes this position seriously. Hence its continued diligence in only publishing factual news surrounding the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease’s impact on the industry.

The fashion industry, amongst countless others, has faced an unexpected and unprecedented blow. FashionUnited is fully aware of its responsibility to provide readers with the clarity needed at this time. With the goal of transparency and efficiency, FashionUnited has created a special topics website, in which reliable news and press releases about the COVID-19 pandemic are grouped to provide an overview of how the global situation is affecting the fashion industry as the situation develops. The page will be kept complete and will provide as many perspectives as possible.

Readers can also view all relevant articles and press releases written in French, Spanish, German and Italian.

FashionUnited encourages all readers to follow government advice and ensure that their safety and health is prioritized and sends sincere well-wishes to everyone in this difficult and confusing time.

Please send relevant updates to tip@fashionunited.com.

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Since its creation over 20 years ago, FashionUnited has been the industry's trusted online global network for news, business intelligence and jobs. The one-stop-shop platform provides fashion professionals and aficionados in more than 30 countries with updated and transparent information.

To make communication as efficient as possible, FashionUnited is, as of recently, available in 10 languages. Alongside the team of international editors located in the Amsterdam HQ, the platform benefits from the collaboration of a global team of locally based, experienced contributors and translators. This global network allows for unparalleled access to independent, high quality content in English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Italian, Dutch and newly - Portuguese and Japanese.

With this global perspective and local approach, FashionUnited publishes 70,000 articles and 100,000 jobs yearly, which are provided freely and made easily available to anyone.

If you wish to remain up-to-date with the latest developments in the fashion industry and join the global community of fashion professionals, subscribe to the newsletter in your country and language of choice.

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Over the past 3 years FashionUnited has more than doubled the number of articles published on its website..

The independent trade publication aims to inform and share information with the global fashion industry targeting professionals, media, and dedicated fashion followers. With this goal in mind, the international team of editors continuously push boundaries and explore innovative ways of creating transparent, valuable, and diverse content.

By expanding the platform to new international markets, the power of journalistic experience, and a multitude of new features, FashionUnited accomplished 60 000 written and over 10 000 media articles in 2019. Among more than 30 FashionUnited country sites, the English speaking ones brought the biggest editorial success, closely followed by platforms offering Russian and German speaking news.

The increase in quantity of articles published in no way hindered the quality of FashionUnited's content. Its steady growth in readership provides the proof with a 25% rise in page views over the past year.

To get to know the FashionUnited Editorial Statute, click here.

If you wish to always be up-to-date with the latest developments in the fashion industry and join the global community of fashion professionals, subscribe to the newsletter in your country and language of choice.

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FashionUnited in October saw a 25 percent increase in monthly users in comparison to 2018. As a global network for news, business intelligence and jobs, FashionUnited's international journalists create content for an engaged audience of the globally curious.

Belgium, Spain, France and Germany are among the countries which witnessed the greatest growth, with Belgium and Spain posting increases of 70 percent and 60 percent respectively in comparison to the same period last year. France and Germany saw increases of 32 percent and 30 percent. To put these figures in perspective, in 2018 FashionUnited’s independent editorial content attracted nearly 4 million page views more than in 2017.

Founded in 1998, FashionUnited leads the pursuit of making the industry more efficient and transparent, upholding a reputation for insightful analysis and perspective on every aspect of fashion industry news.

FashionUnited is one of the most widely recognised and well-read B2B platforms, echoed by the growth of new users which increased 26 percent in October in comparison to 2018.

The one-stop platform captures a local/global perspective across its 30 markets to empower fashion professionals to be better informed across their businesses.

FashionUnited has long identified gaps in the way established fashion media covers news and business intelligence. Active in 30 countries, with local language news in 20, we deliver industry transparency, publishing news relevant to each market and beyond. A 32 percent rise in pageviews in the first half of 2019 affirms the company's success.

With nearly 4.5 million monthly page views, 1.4 million monthly site visits and a 22 percent rise in users, FashionUnited is the definitive destination for local-global news.

The steady growth in readership echoes that of 2018, which saw a 50 percent increase in page views on news across all of FashionUnited’s country sites.

A one-stop platform

The FashionUnited platform empowers fashion professionals with independent, high quality content, and remains unique with its subscription free access across its multi country sites. Our international team of journalists and translators allow for unparalleled access to local language markets, making sure our distinctive, forward thinking and impartial editorial of over 60,000 yearly articles reaches wherever it is relevant for a truly global perspective, from Canada to Japan to Brazil to the U.K.

With nearly 500,000 followers on social media, our fastest growing channels saw a 45 percent increase in LinkedIn traffic and 400 percent rise from Instagram in H1. As our audiences continue to grow, we are expanding our network focus and capturing local insights to deliver the most suitable products to our global following.

FashionUnited's core value of delivering transparency is an indispensable tool for fashion professionals seeking a local-global view on the fashion industry.

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The new FashionUnited job portal has come a long way since 2015. An indispensable tool for recruiters and professionals, we are proud to share over 80% of the world's leading fashion companies use FashionUnited's community of professionals to search for talent. Publishing over 100,000 jobs per year, FashionUnited has facilitated nearly 2 million applications since its launch.

“This milestone is much more than just a number, considering that millions of fashion professionals are searching for their next career challenge via FashionUnited,” says FashionUnited CEO Lennard Minderhoud. “Connecting fashion talent with the industry and vice versa has always been at the heart of FashionUnited, in addition to sharing the latest industry news, insight and data. We currently operate successful career centres in 30 countries.”

Over 30,000 monthly job applications

With more than 30,000 job applications submitted every month, the B2B job platform continues to grow as a place to discover and be discovered, matching job seekers with international employers.

Search for the latest opportunities at the FashionUnited Career Centre here.

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Gottex Resort 2020 show at Miami Swim Week.

Source: FF Channel, YouTube.

Zara launches its kids campaign for AW19/20.

Source: Zara, YouTube.

Exclusive access to the making of Fendi's Fall/Winter 2019-20 campaign.

Source: Fendi, YouTube.

Sofía Sánchez de Betak, Mango brand ambassador, gets ready for the Met Gala 2019.

Source: Mango, YouTube.

Fashion historian Raissa Bretaña fact checks the historical accuracy of the costumes in Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarves. She analyzes the dresses of Snow White and The Evil Queen, and explains every layer of historical dress from German 16th century women and royalty, from undergarments and busks to the their shoes and jewelry.

Source: Glamour, YouTube.

A decision from the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany in 2017, as well as change in the country's civil laws, demand that the rights of intersex/ non-binary persons be respected.

How these changes translate into labor law is unfortunately still causing many doubts and has become the hottest recruiting topic of 2019. Here are some of the most common questions and answers.

In November 2017, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that civil status law must allow a third gender option, besides "female" or "male". The changes are aimed at all those who can not or do not want to be assigned to any gender within the so-called binary gender system and protect their “right to personality”.

This means, for example, that birth certificates cannot have blank gender entries for intersex and/or nonbinary people and as of mid-2018, they need to provide a third option. The deadline for the Federal Government to improve the civil law accordingly was 31 December 2018. As of 2019 employers and recruiters should comply with the same rule, by not excluding non-binary people and offering gender-neutral job advertisements.

Attention should be paid only to the competencies and personality of the applicants and not to their gender. An appropriately formulated application is, therefore, the most important step to ensure the protection of applicants’ rights. Further, employers should ensure that not only the job title, text and visual appearance of the job ad but also the whole application process be designed in an inclusive manner.

In Germany, according to the General Equal Treatment Act from 2006, employers are not allowed to discriminate against an applicant on grounds of gender. The gender identities of people are diverse. This must be considered also in recruitment circumstances, job postings included so that no gender is discriminated against.

Many German linguistic and legal sources confirm that neither the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court nor the General Equal Treatment Act actually set the actual language or formulation requirements for the job ads. The German Federal Constitutional Court’s decision which led to the obligatory introduction of a third gender option onto birth registers and other national documents was not directly aimed at the labor law.

One thing is clear: Employers have to ensure that discrimination does not take place. Therefore, although there is much more to a gender-neutral character of a job ad than its title, it has become good practice for the job positions to include one of the following options, which consider all the different forms of diversity and protect intersex workers:

m / w / a = männlich/weiblich/anders (→ other)

m / w / d = männlich/weiblich/divers (→ miscellaneous and not “drittes Geschlecht” or "third gender" as some believe)

m / w / gn = männlich/weiblich/geschlechtsneutral (→ gender-neutral)

m / w / i = männlich/weiblich/intersexuell

m / w / x or * = (does not mean x-beliebig or x-arbitrary)

According to a study by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency in October 2018, only a little over 2% of all job ads in Germany are discriminatory, but approximately 20% were evaluated as not inclusive, which not leaves room for improvement. It can have legal consequences including lawsuits by discriminated candidates, although there is no legal basis for penalizing a company/ recruiter for an “incorrectly” phrased job advertisement. According to the Federal Constitutional Court, negligently formulated job advertisements, which lack the third option or any option at all, can give an opportunity for discriminatory behaviour. It is, however, not an obligation to include it.

Sweden has introduced a gender-neutral pronoun. The German language can prove tricky when aiming to create a gender-inclusive job title, let alone the job description. Should you wish to ensure your job advertisement title is as inclusive as possible, here are some tips:

• Use generic and/or gender-neutral job titles. Some consider certain titles, like der Recruiter or Manager, to be gender-neutral (referring to all genders while grammatically masculine). While those examples have been a center point of uncountable discussions among linguists, don’t forget you can always use plurals. They are gender-neutral and will help you avoid the tricky gender suffixes. So go for Teamleitung instead of Teamleiterin and Teamleiter, when possible. (This tip also proves valuable when creating gender-inclusive internal communication: „Liebes Team“ will probably be better received than „Liebe Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen“
• If you want to use suffixes on the job title but are in doubt on how to do it correctly, go for an asterisk: Manager*. Restrain from using
• It is highly recommended to always follow the title with one of the previously mentioned abbreviations. When using them, restrain from explaining what the last letter of the abbreviation stands for. The underlying idea is to make the reader get the feeling, that gender and classifications in general, do not matter to the company and the recruiter.

Feel free, however, to be specific like this:
“Wir suchen eine/n Einkäufer/in (m/w/d) – Geschlecht, Hautfarbe, alles egal. Hauptsache du passt zu uns.”

Yes, formulating inclusive job titles and job offers is just the start. Recruiters should make sure that the recruitment process is entirely inclusive to applicants’ gender. It is considered good practice for companies to:

• Have reliable documentation of each application process and store it for at least three months from receipt of the rejection by the applicant
• Have detailed and objective selection criteria for applicants
• When possible, use a fixed questionnaire during interviews
• Have at least two representatives of the employer present in the interviews
• Send out neutrally formulated refusal letters

It is important to stress that expressing gender inclusivity should also translate throughout company internal communication, including staff meetings, emails, speeches, dress codes and office design.

With no doubt, transparency and diversity are key to employee happiness. Inclusiveness improves morale and motivation, and there is a short way from here to overall company success. The same result comes from innovative solutions, which are a frequent outcome of work on diversified teams comprised of op talent. Although, as explained above, including a third gender option in the job advertisement, is not per se, required, it can be an easy to notice element of a company’s inclusive and open culture. Those are crucial points to be considered by winning employers.

The new gender regulations which pertain to the inclusion of the intersex people on official documents are a result of a decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the acts of the German Federal Government. As such they protect people of German nationality from discrimination.

When considering discriminatory recruitment practices, the General Equal Treatment Act from 2006 should rather be considered. This has been explained in the third question of this article. This Act incorporates four Anti-Discrimination Directives of the EU into German law, and as such protects all people under the jurisdiction of this particular EU country. Although this article analyses the recent changes and requirements of the new German gender regulations, the anti-discrimination directives should be respected and implemented by all employers recruiting within the EU.

Visit FashionUnited for more information about gender and inclusivity as well as tips for recruiters.

The Temple of Concordia, the Greek myths, the one of a kind garments of Dolce&Gabbana’s Alta Moda. Look back on the truly unique event.

Source: Dolce & Gabbana, YouTube.

A company is only as good as its employees. With that in mind, recruitment is crucial in shaping Employer Branding.

For over two decades now, SMCP has been inspiring its Parisian chic around the world. Acknowledging the relevance of employing the best people, talent days include an in-depth presentation regarding the Brands Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot within SMCP.

Through personal conversations with HR Managers, attendees can learn more about the benefits of employment at SMCP while the company has the chance to determine which applicants seem to be the perfect fit for the Brands.

SMCP hosted a recruitment event at the FashionUnited headquarters in Amsterdam on the 3rd of April 2019. The next talent days will take place in Madrid on the 9th of May and in Berlin on the 17th of June 2019. An event in Rome on the 13th of June is still to be confirmed.

FashionUnited connects people within the industry and makes recruitment processes more efficient. With a collaborative, open atmosphere and innovative technology available, the office space perfectly suits this type of occasion.

FashionUnited’s understanding of the industry is invaluable when supporting brands with the organization of events. As fashion's trusted global network for 20 years, FashionUnited can help elevate the recruitment experience for everyone involved.

For more information on how FashionUnited can help brands reach the best people, please connect here.

FashionUnited is delighted to announce it has received the CHIC International Cooperation Award granted by CHIC China International Fashion Fair.

The award is intended to highlight CHIC’s successful collaborations with media outlets relevant to the fashion industry and, as of March 2019, FashionUnited is among those honorees. A representative was present during the ceremony held in Shanghai to personally accept the prize.

CHIC China International Fashion Fair, represented by Jandali, hosts Asia’s most acclaimed fashion and lifestyle fair. With more than 100,000 visitors and almost 1,500 brands from 16 countries represented, the Shanghai event in March 2019 has been deemed a great success.

The next edition will take place on 25 - 27 September 2019.

FashionUnited would like to thank CHIC for the accolade and is looking forward to continuing the successful partnership.

Max Mara Fall Winter 2019-2020 fashion show at Milan Fashion Week FW19 Ready-To-Wear.

Source: Kendam, YouTube.

While talking about fame, late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld takes a look back at his upbringing and how all he wanted to do was to be a grown up.

Source: CNBC International TV, YouTube.

FashionUnited continuously strives to connect industry professionals while making it more fun and efficient. In alignment with this mission, a newly updated FashionUnited LookBook has been launched to facilitate and inspire the user’s image sharing experience.

Visually appealing and easy to navigate, the redesigned FashionUnited LookBook aspires to become the world’s largest fashion image library. The new FashionUnited LookBook offers much more than the functionalities of a conventional image library. Thanks to its AI-driven algorithm, the image content is automatically recognized, appropriate tags are assigned and images are categorized accordingly. This enables images to be uploaded and labeled in the most effortless way, which makes search and sharing quick and intuitive.

Built almost 10 years ago, the FashionUnited LookBook garnered fans from the very beginning and was ahead of its time. Even before the emergence of big visual media platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram, it offered the unique opportunity for fashion professionals to share and find visual information.

The FashionUnited Global Image Library has continued to attract visitors with its vast database of fashion-themed images. The ease of use makes this image library a fun and inspiring experience. It is a collection of images from fashion shows, editorials, designer collections, photographers portfolios, and editor’s archives. After years of observing users’ needs and behaviours, FashionUnited offers the latest features based on these learnings.

Get inspired and share your visuals on the FashionUnited LookBook!

Journalism’s most valuable currency is credibility but readers trust in news media is fragile. At FashionUnited we believe that trust and transparency go hand in hand. Being clear and transparent about how FashionUnited editors work reporting the news, about who and what our sources are and how we use them, lies at the core of the editorial ethics code published on this page.

Special thanks to the Online News Association (ONA) for providing the online tools that have helped to write this code and making it as complete as possible.

Fundamentals

FashionUnited journalists are honest, accurate, truthful and fair.

We respect your audience and those we write about.

FashionUnited journalists avoid any conflict of interest that may undermine their ability to report fairly and disclose to our audience any factors that may affect their judgment of our credibility.

FashionUnited provides accurate context for all reporting.

Our reporters don’t plagiarize or violate copyrights.

Nature of Our Journalism

FashionUnited news coverage is factual, without expression of opinions, but journalists are encouraged to provide commentary in related posts or follow up articles, being transparent about their professional opinions and sharing their expertise.

Our journalists, salespeople and executives work to ensure that advertisers, sponsors and contributors have no influence over our news coverage.

Despite FashionUnited’s close ties to the fashion industry, we provide factual coverage in a neutral voice.

Accuracy

FashionUnited journalists take responsibility to ensure the accuracy of information that they publish and our journalists are open to the community’s help in confirming or correcting information.

FashionUnited aims to provide accurate context for all news reporting and clearly distinguishes fact from opinion in all articles.

Our journalists ensure that sources are reliable and make clear to the audience who and what the sources are, what motivations sources may have and any conditions people may have set for giving information.

If an article includes criticism of people or organizations, our journalists will give them the opportunity to respond.

Interviewing

FashionUnited never pays for interviews.

Our journalists can provide interviewees with transcripts upon request to ensure accuracy or to clarify complicated or technical matters. Interviewees can not alter the context or angle of the story. Our journalists record interviews and retain notes or transcripts of all interviews for verification purposes.

Sources

FashionUnited consistently includes clear attributions throughout a story and names al sources by name.

Fashionunited includes source attribution in the news texts themselves. We are investigating if we can also include links, that provide additional information.

When our journalists use material from our archives or from an author’s previous work in a current story, they note that the material has been published before.

Balance and Fairness

In breaking news situations, our journalists will attempt to gather comments from all key sides; if comments are not immediately available, FashionUnited will publish the story without them, make clear that our journalists were unable to get some comment and update the news story as needed.

FashionUnited respects its audience and those we write about. Our journalists take into consideration how their work and its permanence online may affect the subjects of our reporting, the fashion industry and the larger world.

Quotes

In news reporting and interviews FashionUnited will use mostly full and complete quotes or paraphrase.

In case of paraphrasing a quote to serve the flow of a story, our journalists will make sure the meaning of the person being quoted is represented correctly.

Gifts & Free Travel

FashionUnited journalists can not accept gifts with a value greater than 50 Euro.

Our journalists may accept free travel tickets or press passes to cover events, but will disclose those invitations in their reporting. Tickets or press passes to cover events do not automatically buy editorial coverage on our platform.

Social Networks

Our journalists are free to express opinions on social media.

FashionUnited encourages all staff members to retweet, reblog, share and otherwise pass along things they find interesting on social media. The company trusts them to provide context where appropriate.

FashionUnited will edit or delete inaccurate social media posts, so people who haven’t seen the corrections will not spread them on social media.

Corrections

FashionUnited journalists take great care to avoid making errors.

If an error occurs, it will be corrected quickly, completely and visibly. Corrections are shown in the same place the incorrect material originally appeared (at the bottom of the same story).

Our website will show all changes that have been made to online stories that alter the content of the story. Corrections of spelling, grammar or typos, that do not alter the meaning of the story, will not be shown.

The Integrity of our Archive

FashionUnited values its fashion news archive which goes back to 2002. In order to keep this record of fashion history intact FashionUnited does not remove material from its archives.

Any errors in our archived content will be corrected and the corrections disclosed in the same place.

FashionUnited will consider exceptions to its policy regarding archived articles in extreme cases, such as abuse, danger to someone's personal safety or if archived material does not live up to FashionUnited’s (ethical) standards.

Advertising

FashionUnited requires all advertising including news-like content and advertorials to be clearly identified.

FashionUnited can assist advertisers in creating advertising material upon request, but these commercial activities are strictly separated from our editorial / journalistic activities, -calendar and -staff.

Privacy

FashionUnited journalists verify sources, and require approval to make use of social media and publicly available content that originates from private individuals (like Facebook postings).

Online Commenting

FashionUnited does not offer the possibility for online commenting at this time. Comments can be sent directly to the editorial department, news@fashionunited.com, to be answered by the editorial staff.

Confidential Sources

FashionUnited uses confidential sources sparingly to provide important information that cannot be obtained through on-the-record sources and will disclose to readers the reasons for granting confidentiality.

FashionUnited can publish information from confidential sources that is considered reliable, but does not publish the opinions of unnamed sources.

Clickbait and Metrics

FashionUnited editors are encouraged to write clever, creative headlines and social media posts that will entice readers to click on our stories, but headlines will not make promises that our stories don’t deliver.

We use metric considerations as one of a number of factors in determining what we cover and how we place stories.

Children

FashionUnited journalists avoid identifying -- by name or photo -- children who are connected with a crime as perpetrators, victims or witnesses.

Our journalists always obtain a parent’s permission before interviewing or photographing a child.


Mental Health and Suicide

FashionUnited will cover individual events of suicide as news stories if they involve prominent figures in the fashion industry in a neutral tone of voice, avoid using emotional adjectives and include contact information for resources for people in mental health crises.

Naming suspects

FashionUnited only publishes about crime if the crime has relevance to (people in) the fashion industry.

Obscenities

FashionUnited will replace obscenities, vulgarities and slurs with something that implies the word rather than stating it directly (e.g. “f---”).

The same standards on obscenities, vulgarities and slurs will be applied to reader comments on stories.

Race and Gender

Racial, ethnic, gender and/or sexuality identifiers will only be used when specifically germane to a story but not otherwise.

The word transgender will only be used as an adjective and only when relevant to the story. For example, "Susan is a transgender woman" if Susan wishes to be identified as such, otherwise, Susan is a designer or a model f.i. Any further references referring to how a person was born and/or external anatomy should be omitted.

Sensitive and Sensational Material

FashionUnited will run sensitive material with stories with notes of warning and after internal debate has demonstrated a clear public interest in and value from the publication.

Our journalists will refrain from running sensational material without a specific news angle to prevent running such material for revenue purposes, such as increased digital traffic.


User Generated Content

FashionUnited considers User Generated Content an extension of our own journalism. Our publication does not run or use such material unless it’s authentic and relevant.

2018 was yet another great year for FashionUnited’s digital audience growth. It saw a 50% increase on page views on news across all 18 FashionUnited’s country sites, confirming once more the competitive advantage of offering free, high quality independent editorial content. This in turn led to more traffic from search engines and social media.

UK, Switzerland, Peru, Belgium and Italy are among the countries which witnessed the fastest growth, Switzerland experiencing an almost 170% growth in comparison to the same period last year. In 2018 FashionUnited’s independent editorial content attracted nearly 4 million page views more than in 2017.

More than 2.5 million international fashion professionals read FashionUnited’s impartial and original articles to stay up to date with the latest events in the fashion industry. The editorial department prides itself on offering high quality, verified and reliable information. The platform’s independent and user-oriented approach is appreciated worldwide and translates into an even more transparent industry. FashionUnited’s well informed, knowledgeable and always alert editors deliver authoritative content our readers show interest in, while active social media distribution as well as mobile friendly environment help promote ongoing readership growth.

Last year’s 50% pageviews rise is set to continue growing throughout 2019 as the editorial team has set itself the goal of growing both the number of articles published as well as the number of prospective colleagues joining the company.

FashionUnited's news is making the industry more efficient and transparent by making valuable content accessible and complete.

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Since 1984, SMCP has been spreading Parisian chic across the world with three brands, Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot. The brands are known for on-trend high-quality products with a short and reactive cycle from design to production.

The leading global company wants to provide its clients with a superior personal shopping experience in premium store locations. SMCP currently employs around 5000 fashion professionals and has 271 points of sale in Asia-Pacific. Western companies often face challenges and limitations when recruiting in Eastern regions.

FashionUnited aims to make recruitment in the fashion industry more efficient and transparent. Simple and complete platform services, such as the Job Management Dashboard and the career center match brands with the best people in fashion. Globally active, the industry platform crosses borders and cultures and has job boards in Asian countries such as China and Russia. With support of FashionUnited, luxury brands like Sandro, Maje, and Claudie Pierlot are able to enhance their hiring activities in Asia.

For current job openings with SMCP in France click here.
For current job openings with SMCP in USA click here.
For current job openings with SMCP in China click here.

Gucci is a huge part of popular culture in 2018. The iconic logo is displayed across celebrity instagram accounts and featured in popular songs like Lil Pump's "Gucci Gang." As millennials continue to make up a large portion of the consumer market, the way they spend their money has an impact. Millennials and teens might be destroying everything from Applebee’s to the napkin industry, but they are definitely willing to spend money on a Gucci fanny pack.

Source: Business Insider, YouTube.

Donatella Versace’s mark, an indelible reminder that the Versace connection is as permanent as ink on skin.

Source: Versace, YouTube.

From high-impact and subtly sexy to modern twists on chic classics: nail your after-dark wardrobe with our Partywear Trend Report, starring Danish stylist and creative director Jeanette Madsen.

Source: Net-A-Porter, YouTube.

The girl's collection is delicate and feminin inspiried by bohemian and casual chic looks. This season the line plays with neutral colours and touch of reds, blues, pinks, florals prints or checked and features materials such as denim or tencel.

The boy’s collection is inspired by four main styles such as Preppy Look, Safary, Hipster or Soft Sailor. The predominant trends are simple lines with soft colours such as navy blue, off-white, kakhi or grey. The collection features paterns such as Oxford checked and plain key items for both smart and casual looks.

British fashion designer Molly Goddard shares her personal stories of creation, and her relationship with clothes.

Source: Youtube, Molly Goddard

Today’s video covers some diverse territory, from Cambodia, living wages, and H&M, to the Clean Clothes Campaign, a Cambodian NGO called the Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights (or CENTRAL), Better Factories Cambodia, and an organisation called Better Buying.

Source: FSWIR, YouTube.

Chanel shows pre fall collection for 2019 in New York City.

Source: Youtube, Chanel

Meghan Markle makes a special appearance at The Fashion Awards to announce the winners.

Source: Youtube, Fashion Feed

Coach Pre-Fall 2019 shows collection by Stuart Vevers.

Source: Coach, Youtube

Fashion designer Carrie Hammer was shocked to discover the techniques the fashion and beauty industries employ to sell products. She fills us in on the real harm that these do to our psyches and proposes some smart solutions.

Source: TEDx Talks, YouTube.

Oysho’s new ski clothing line integrates the best technology, such as a jacket equipped with the RECCO® detector, a tracking system allowing rescuers to locate people who have gone missing in the mountain, or super lightweight PrimaLoft® fibre to retain body heat and provide insulation from the cold on ski slopes.

All the garments are equipped with highly technical features and stand out for the use of waterproof and breathable fabrics that ensure optimal performance while doing sports.

The collection introduces a wide range of tailored jackets featuring 10K waterproof fabric, sealed seams for weather protection, built-in pockets and an adjustable hood.

The high waist trousers and the jumpsuit feature a fleece-lined interior as well as protective lining on the hems to prevent snow from entering. Furthermore, stretchy braces and belts, alongside an ergonomic curve on the knees, allow for full freedom of movement.

Après ski fashion updates its codes thanks to high neck fleece sweaters and merino wool ensembles in lightweight and breathable fabrics, offering thermal properties that help to retain body heat, all the while providing comfort.

Oysho also presents a series of essential accessories for the cold weather, such as furry hats and headbands, mittens and gloves, all of which feature a sporty design to top off any snow outfit.

New arena for technology focused fashion industry discussions on Meetup.

With 20 years of online experience in making the fashion industry more efficient and transparent, FashionUnited aims to create a collaborative environment and shape the fashion industry even more by discussing tech solutions with like-minded professionals.

Web developers, programming wizards, entrepreneurs, UX/UI designers, business innovation consultants or online marketing specialists - everybody interested in technological challenges and opportunities in fashion is welcome to join FashionUnited Tech Talks - quarterly meetups at FashionUnited HQ, touching topics like GraphQL, AI, Machine Learning and more...

Organized in after-work hours, they explore diverse technical topics and feature food, drinks, demos and networking opportunities.

Want to talk tech at FashionUnited? Join the meetup group to stay up to date about the events. Interested in speaking? Email marketing@fashionunited.com with the subject you would like to share with fashion industry professionals.

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Keeping in mind the goal of bringing efficiency and transparency to the industry, FashionUnited collects personal and non-personal data for the purposes of recruitment and knowledge sharing.

How is my information collected?
You share your information with FashionUnited when accessing and using its online and/or mobile services and websites as well as software provided by FashionUnited or in connection with such services or websites. The collected information is relevant to services offered by FashionUnited which include (but are not limited to): career center with job postings and newsletters with the latest developments in the fashion industry. Some of the information you provide yourself, other we collect automatically from your browser.

What kind of information is collected?
In order to take advantage of newsletter services for the fashion industry, you are asked to share the following personal data: Contact details (first and last name, address, email)

In order to take advantage of FashionUnited’s career center and apply for a job, you are asked to share the following personal data:

• Contact details (first and last name, address, email)
• Professional and social profile (CV and cover letter and the information you chose to share in them)
• Password

Please keep in mind that in the situations when the job posting links to an application form on a third party website (i.e. the employer’s site) FashionUnited accepts no responsibility or liability for any third party practices on third party websites. We advise you to carefully read third party privacy statements prior to the use of any third party website.

In order to reach fashion professionals through a job listing on the platform, you are asked to share the following business data:

• Business Registration information
• Contact details (first and last name, address, email) of your company’s representative.

Through your activity on FashionUnited, some information from your computer or mobile device and actions taken on the site can be collected. The information gained is collected so we can customize our response to you. This information may include (and is not limited to):

• your activity time on the site and each page
• page views, clicks
• session activity
• Type of device, browser and operating system
• MAC address and IP address the domain name from which you accessed the Site.

For more information about the technical data FashionUnited might collect, check the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.

Where and how is the information about me stored?
FashionUnited processes and stores your data for the purposes you have given your consent to and to the extent it is adequate. Due to the global presence of FashionUnited, we rely on cloud computing when executing daily tasks. All user data is stored and processed with help of encrypted cloud storage solutions. We are regularly enhancing and updating our security tools, procedures and methods to better protect our your information and anonymity.

For more information about how FashionUnited protects the data (encryption, privacy by design, etc.) check the Privacy Policy .

How long will FashionUnited store my information?
Your data is stored for the time necessary to provide the service you have requested. When possible, we will provide you with an exact duration; otherwise, refer to the following principles: Your data is held as long as we provide the service you requested (i.e. as long as the recruitment process of the job offer you applied for is open or as long as we offer newsletters or for the duration of the business contract you have with FashionUnited) We take sensitivity of the information into account, when choosing data storage and processing solutions FashionUnited shall not retain Personal Data for any longer than necessary for the purposes of performing the processing outlined in the Privacy Policy. Should we wish to do so for your benefit, your consent will be requested for consent via email.

Will FashionUnited share my data with anybody else?
The information you share with FashionUnited enables us to provide you with the best user experience and service. It is available to FashionUnited and shared with third parties only when relevant. For recruitment purposes for instance, your data is immediately shared with the employer of the job you are applying to, please consult the company advertising the vacancy for their GDPR policy directly. None of your data is being sold to third parties nor shared with anybody without your consent. Your information would only be shared without permission in cases of law infringement.

What are my rights?
You are the person in control of how your information is collected and used by organisations, FashionUnited included. You have full right to access, edit, object to, restrict the processing of and delete any personal and non-personal data previously shared with FashionUnited. Should you wish to do so, please write and email to privacy@FashionUnited.com with a copy of your passport or national identity card attached. We reserve 30 days to process a formal request related to the above.

What resources are available to me if I have doubts and/ or further questions about my privacy when using FashionUnited?
For more information about your privacy and FashionUnited, please check our privacy site, and/ or contact us directly at privacy@FashionUnited.com. Further information on GDPR specifically can be found at eugdpr.org.

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To read articles published on FashionUnited.com about GDPR in fashion please click here >>

The new privacy regulation taking effect on 25 May 2018 applies to all companies that process data of EU residents - regardless the location of the organization itself. In the face of the new law employers and recruiters are “data controllers” and, therefore, fully responsible for protecting candidate data and determining why and how they are being processed. So what does that mean in practice?

Your company needs to demonstrate compliance with the new law by being transparent and lawful in the recruitment processes. This translates to:

• Updating relevant documents (privacy policies and terms and conditions) and making them easily available to candidates, requesting candidate’s consent for processing their data. It must be clear and accompanied by information on how to modify and delete the data.
• Only being allowed to collect the candidates´ data for recruitment purposes and if you intend to contact them within 30 days. The purpose of data collection has to be specified and legitimate and it’s storage limited by a time margin known to the candidate.
• Informing the candidates why, where and for how long their data is being stored.
• Complying when candidates request to view their data and have them modified or deleted. The term for executing this request is one month.
• Taking responsibility for GDPR compliance of your company’s contractors (i.e. Applicant Tracking Systems)

In order to meet those requirements, your company should:

• Conduct an audit to learn what kind of private data your company collects, how it does that and where is the data being stored. The purpose of collection of each and every piece of data has to be justified.
• Update the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
• Be intentional when sourcing candidates and only collect personal data which is absolutely necessary.
• Be transparent about the privacy policies with all parties involved in the recruitment process by updating email, job description and contract templates with information on data processing mentioned above.
• Review, adjust and clean-up existing talent- and mailing databases.
• Make sure the contractors and third parties are compliant with the new law by contacting them or checking their website resources.
• Make sure it is prepared for possible candidate requests related to exercising their rights by appointing responsible teams and/ or creating technical systems.

Should you have any doubts about the changes and how the new law affects you as a recruiter, do not hesitate to contact us via email at privacy@fashionunited.com.

2017 was a great year for FashionUnited’s digital audience growth. The second half of the year saw a 36% increase on page views on news across all FashionUnited’s country sites, confirming once more the competitive advantage of offering free, high quality independent editorial content. This in turn led to more traffic from search engines and social media in H2..

USA, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy are among the countries which witnessed the fastest growth, Italy experiencing an almost 130% growth in comparison to the same period last year.

Between July and December 2017 FashionUnited’s independent editorial content attracted more than 1 million additional page views in comparison to the same period in 2016.

More than 2.5 million international fashion professionals read FashionUnited’s impartial and original articles to stay up to date with the latest events in the fashion industry. The editorial department prides itself on offering high quality, verified and reliable information. The platform’s independent and user-oriented approach is appreciated worldwide and translates into an even more transparent industry. FashionUnited’s well informed, knowledgeable and always alert editors deliver authoritative content our readers show interest in, while active social media distribution as well as mobile friendly environment help promote ongoing readership growth.

2017’s nearly 40% pageviews rise is set to continue growing throughout 2018 as the editorial team has set itself the goal of growing both the number of articles published as well as the number of prospective colleagues joining the company.

FashionUnited announces with great pleasure and anticipation that it has relocated to a new and improved office space. After moving to a more comfortable and twice as spacious office, right next to major transportation hubs, FashionUnited’s new office offers more convenient access and exciting development opportunities.

Since FashionUnited first opened its doors 19 years ago, the ongoing support and collaboration with fashion professionals around the globe remains one of the main reasons why the company has grown into one of the industry’s leading players. The former office location, which featured limited parking spaces, as well as smaller office room, did not enable the further growth of FashionUnited and was no longer acceptable. After a long and well-thought out search for the ideal new location, we are thrilled to share it with everyone.

The new, spacious office and upgraded facilities will allow FashionUnited to reach new markets and offer even faster service. Thanks to more room, IT infrastructure expanded assuring a three-times-faster internet, whereas employees can enjoy more workspace as well as a Table Football and Xbox One X. The lunch area offers stunning views from the 14th floor. The new space meets the requirements of tomorrow’s needs in terms of sustainability and quality of work, which is crucial to us. Moreover, the new Headquarter has space for over 80 workplaces, accommodating plans for further growth of the company. In the next 12 months, FashionUnited aims to hire at least 30 new colleagues.

As of October 2017, FashionUnited is no longer based at the previous address, which is only 400 meters away from the new location. Thanks to the administrative help of DRS real estate agency as well as team work, the move was fast and agile. This is just one of many exciting developments taking place at the moment. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have concerning the new location or FashionUnited’s services.

In order to stay on the journalistic forefront, editorial department has been constantly improving the presentation of digital content. To boost the impact of FashionUnited articles, various multimedia storytelling forms have been developed, which allow to deliver stories to readers in the most attractive way.

At this point, multimedia is inseparable part of the daily newsroom: from an idea, through research and production to publication. Here are a few projects, which give a good impression:

Putting facts and dates in order with timelines

Pure London thrives as one of the UK’s fashion market’s main trade fairs. Biannual event continues to evolve and adapt to the industry's ever-changing landscape. FashionUnited took a moment to look back on some of Pure London’s milestone over the years since 2009.

360 degree view visual reports

House of Denim is the first platform of its kind, dedicated craftsmanship and innovation in the denim industry. The headquarters of this Dutch knowledge institute, Denim City, houses its own jean workshop, a laundry 'Blue Lab', an archive and even a store. Additionally, the denim hub acts the home base for students of the first and only Jean School in the world. Curious to see what it looks like? Then take a look inside the denim hotspot:

And interactive image reports

With more than 170k followers on social media, Dominic Chambrone a.k.a the Shoe Surgeon is seen as one of the most recognizable sneaker customizers in the USA. FashionUnited had a chance to follow the steps of shoe personalisation during one-on-one appointment at W-21, the Experimental Shoe Store of ECCO Sko A/S in Amsterdam, where Chambrone consulted directly with clients seeking to co-design their own shoes.

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Travel around the globe with story maps

They say that the fastest way to anyone's heart is through their stomach. Although applying this quote to fashion industry may seem inadequate, more and more fashion retailers companies have added food corners in their stores in order to offer customers a unique shopping experience. We have gathered the most exciting concepts combining fashion and food in Europe in this interactive map.

We make the fashion industry more efficient and transparent by making our services accessible and complete. Our innovative media network for the international industry includes news, jobs, business intelligence, product data and software tools.

FashionUnited is an independent international B2B fashion network. Globally active, we reach millions of industry professionals and assist making their careers in fashion easier.

To meet fashion recruiters’ needs and make their jobs more efficient and transparent FashionUnited has launched a dashboard where recruiters can easily manage their vacancies. It is a complete solution, which allows recruiters to add, edit and unpublish job vacancies as well as view associated applicants.
What makes the new Dashboard unique is the simplicity of the interface without any loss of functionality.

In the new tool recruiters can choose from three job posting modalities. Depending on the layout, you can make your posting more or less visually complex.
The new Job Management Dashboard allows recruiters to be on top of their job postings at any moment:

• checking how many jobs are online and how many had been archived
• checking how many applications each vacancy has received
• modifying the placement of the ads

All jobs posted through the FashionUnited HR Dashboard can also be published automatically on the recruiter’s own company website with the job embedder tool.

We believe the new, intuitive Job Management Dashboard answers contemporary recruiter’s needs and helps them find the perfect candidate efficiently and fast.

Do you want more control and insights in your recruitment process? Contact jobs@fashionunited.com to try the new Job Management Dashboard for free.

FashionUnited is proud to announce the Fashion HR Apps tool in collaboration with Adver-Online.

Fashion HR Apps is the platform that offers HR products and services to HR professionals in the fashion industry. The platform is now launched in The Netherlands. In time, it will be rolled out globally including Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States. HR products and services that are available on Fashion HR Apps are e.g. Appical (onboarding), Blue Carpet (performance management and talent management), Cammio (video recruitment), CVmonitor (screening SME and Enterprise), HROffice Recruitment (applicant tracking system), Ligo (juridical advice), MatchQ (assessments and video pitch), Recruitz.io (social recruitment) and Screenen.com (screening). As the platform evolves, more partners will be added to Fashion HR Apps on a regular base.

Partnership between FashionUnited and Adver-Online

Lennard Minderhoud, CEO FashionUnited explains: “Connecting job seekers with the industry and vice versa has always been at the heart of FashionUnited, next to sharing the latest industry news, insights and developments in more than 20 countries and 8 languages. Over 80% of the world’s top fashion companies use FashionUnited's HR and marketing solutions to attract international fashion talent. We are innovators and want to serve the needs of our clients and partners. With Fashion HR Apps we provide an extra service to HR professionals in the fashion industry, striving to offer them the most relevant tool for making their work more efficient and optimized.”

“We are proud to announce our partnership with FashionUnited and we are pleased to facilitate Fashion HR Apps”, explained Jeen Westra, Business Manager HROffice. “With Fashion HR Apps, HR professionals in the fashion industry have a clear overview of all HR products and services available for their industry. With the use of one single account, HR professionals have access to their HR software on their personal dashboard. On this personal dashboard, users have access to all important information and results of different HR software solutions, have a clear overview of the tasks that needs to be performed and can easily purchase other products in Fashion HR Apps.”

Also Hans van Rijnswoud, CEO Adver-Online, looks forward to the partnership with FashionUnited. “Our collaboration with FashionUnited fits perfectly into the strategy of Adver-Online: embracing new partnerships, internationalization and implementation of Adver-Online’s products and services. We would like to strengthen our leadership position in the Netherlands, strengthen our international market share and enlarge our proposition with partners. With this partnership, we are joining forces and providing HR software and services within 1 platform for the fashion industry locally as well as internationally.”

For more information, please go to https://apps.fashionunited.com

About FashionUnited

FashionUnited is an independent international B2B fashion network. Globally active, the platform reaches more than 1 million industry professionals per month. Visitors can browse their local website, in their native language, which offers the latest fashion news, articles archive, display advertising, trade statistics, career center, employer branding pages, events calendar, and a social media network. FashionUnited, more fun and efficiency in fashion!

About Adver-Online

Adver-Online is the number one HR media company in the Netherlands and provides their services worldwide. Adver-Online’s passion is finding the best candidate for a vacancy. Since 2002, Adver-Online creates successful recruitment campaigns based on many years of experience and data driven recruitment marketing. They take care of all activities needed to reach the right target audience and to monitor and adjust your campaign to get the optimal results. Clients are facilitated through job marketing, social targeting, employer branding and online recruitment campaigns. Every year more than 150.000 data driven recruitment marketing campaigns are set up.

In 2009, Adver-Online introduced HROffice. HROffice provides innovative and user friendly HR software on Recruitment and Workforce Management. HROffice Recruitment is a fully integrated recruitment ATS solution for vacancy and candidate management, corporate career sites, mobile applications, talent pools, screening and e-assessments. With HROffice Workforce Management, Adver-Online supplies a SAAS planning solution for permanent and temporary staff for many known companies that operate nationally and internationally. In the end of 2016, Adver-Online launched the innovative HR Appstore, the online platform with an extensive collection of HR software and services from the best HR suppliers.

The FashionUnited team of international editors work hard to ensure we always remain at the peak of industry’s innovations 24/7, which is why FashionUnited has featured strong visuals such as photographs, videos and soundbites alongside of to-the-point news articles. In addition, FashionUnited is always up to date with the latest technology, reflected in our recent use of 360 degree photographs and videos for store openings, trade fairs and fashion week shows.

"We are always looking for new and innovative ways to tell stories and engage with our audience. Using 360 degree footage, although still in its infancy, is a great way to do that. It offers us the chance to take our readers to the front row of fashion week, or backstage. It also lets us take them on a virtual tour through some of the industry's leading trade shows or behind the scene at new store opening. We believe 360 photographs and videos are a great asset in transferring that initial feeling of excitement to the readers”, says Esmee Blaazer, Project Manager at FashionUnited.

360 degree videos

The 360 degree videos are made with a special camera that is able to capture its entire surroundings simultaneously. This allows the viewer to experience the event through the eyes of an actual visitor. Scrolling with the mouse via laptop will enable to ‘look’ around the space. The same is possible via smartphone or tablet by using your finger to ‘look around’. Watching the video on fullscreen and sound allows a full experience.

360 degree photographs

Also 360 degree photographs are the visual of choice for many FashionUnited interactive reports. ‘Tags’ in the shape of a circle allow the viewer to unlock narrative elements directly from the image. By clicking on these tags more information, related photos or videos are being revealed.

Images: FashionUnited

Hermés, Nike or Uniqlo, which is the most valuable fashion company worldwide? FashionUnited's “Top 100 Most Valuable Fashion Brands” list gives an answer to this and other questions and is an invaluable insight for those working in fashion.

The overview shows that the top ten companies vary greatly, ranging from luxury goods retailers to athleisure brands and fast fashion champions. The top ten most valuable brands in fashion are led by sportswear giant Nike, luxury goods giants Hermés, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Rolex and Gucci; and fast fashion companies Uniqlo, H&M, and Zara. Coming in tenth place is another sportswear firm, none other than German leader Adidas. Nearly half of the listed companies are based in the USA, which makes this country the most represented one, followed by France.

The article “Luxury, athleisure and fast fashion: The most valuable niches for fashion brands” further elaborates on the data and top 100 list. “The demand for business intelligence on the global fashion industry is rising. For this reason it is necessary to have access to reliable industry information”, says Caroline Hermanns, FashionUnited Business Intelligence Manager. The FashionUnited Business Intelligence page answers this demand by offering numerous business data, analytics, indexes and directories of the apparel market. The “Top 100 Most Valuable Fashion Brands” list is the latest addition to FashionUnited’s business intelligence page, revealing various insights.

The “Top 100 Most Valuable Fashion Brands” list can be viewed here.

Innovation is at the heart of FashionUnited which why the FashionUnited Advent calendar 2016 was introduced as an engaging tool for employer branding on the German platform.

24 established fashion companies introduced themselves as attractive employers in the FashionUnited Advent calendar. Next to surprising fashion professionals with useful presents, unique insights about the company and their company culture were shared to offer a first impression.

“By making use of innovative employer branding tools like the FashionUnited Advent calendar, FashionUnited is creating opportunities that connect employers with employees and vice versa in a fun and engaging way”, says Lennard Minderhoud CEO from FashionUnited.

Every day, from the 1st of December to the 24th FashionUnited users could open the corresponding door on our digital calendar. The partners participating varied from luxury goods retailers to athleisure brands and fast fashion champions.

Following the successful results of the calendar, which included 24 happy partners as well as numerous participants, FashionUnited aims to roll out this initiative to other countries in order to offer FashionUnited's various partners the chance to present themselves in a unique way to potential future employees.

• The FashionUnited Career Center & HR Solutions
• The FashionUnited Marketing Solutions and media services

FashionUnited is proud to announce the 1.000.000th job application that has been submitted via the online fashion platform in the past 1.5 years. “This milestone is much more than just a number, considering that 1 million job seekers strived for a new professional challenge via FashionUnited”, explains FashionUnited CEO Lennard Minderhoud. Connecting job seekers with the industry and vice versa has always been at the heart of FashionUnited, next to sharing the latest industry news, insights and developments in more than 20 countries and 8 language. Over 80% of the world’s top fashion companies make use of FashionUnited’s HR and marketing solutions to attract international fashion talent.

With more than 140.000 job applications that are being submitted every month, the B2B platform is on its way to connect even more job seekers with potential employers. On this professional journey, FashionUnited proves to be the platform of choice for many fashion experts.

Are you also looking for a new challenge in the fashion industry? Then visit the FashionUnited career center.

Finding a fashion course that matches someone’s personal interests and demands can be a challenge. The large number of undergraduate and postgraduate fashion programs worldwide can be overwhelming, especially if “going abroad” is an option. That is why an online education network that structures relevant information is a huge asset, particularly for students who will be enrolling for their academic studies soon.

Those seeking clarity and support can be relieved. With the Fashion Education Network a career in fashion is just one mouse click away. It provides the future fashion candidate with an overview of fashion- courses and -schools around the globe. Crucial career and industry information are available as well, next to internship- and job opportunities.

“We created this non-profit initiative to guide students through their studies and first steps in their career, from choosing a fashion institution to finding their first job”, says Blanca Rodriguez-Arias, Manager of the Fashion Education Network.

Regular news updates ensure that students don’t miss out on the latest industry developments. Connecting students, schools as well as the industry on a single one platform is the core of the network, which was founded by FashionUnited, the leading online B2B platform for fashion professionals.

Visit the Fashion Education Network here.

Business intelligence has become more and more important to the fashion industry. For this reason it is crucial to be able to have access to reliable and essential industry information, indexes and directories. In the “information jungle” one website that gathers all necessary data is convenient and provides fashion professionals with more intelligence by one simple click.

The FashionUnited Business Intelligence page contains numerous business data and analytics of the apparel market, from “The Richest People in Fashion” to the “Cotton Price Index”. The “FashionUnited Top 100 Index” lists the 100 largest quoted companies worldwide, while the “Company Directory” is a collection of leading companies and their stock information, social media performance and latest news.

“Sharing knowledge is the fundamental principal of FashionUnited”, says Caroline Hermanns, FashionUnited Business Intelligence Manager. “As a one-stop-shop destination we aim at providing in-depth industry information. Our Business intelligence supports those seeking reliable information that can be accessed conveniently”.

The recently improved FashionUnited Business Intelligence page can be visited here.

FashionUnited has been interviewed by the OC Fashion Week™, sharing insights into career opportunities in the fashion industry. Read the interview here.

FashionUnited has been interviewed by the Couture Fashion Week NY. Check out the interview with FashionUnited Country Manager Lori Hernandez here.

FashionUnited has been interviewed by Intersect Fashion London. Check out the interview with FashionUnited CEO Lennard Minderhoud here.