Fashion Exhibitions to visit this Summer, Harry Styles x Gucci, job interviews in fashion

plus the latest jobs and internships

Jun 25, 2022

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5 Fashion Exhibitions to visit this Summer

Looking for something to do over the summer or a reason to travel with friends and family? Taking a summer break to spend quality time with friends and family is just what the weather ordered and what better way to do it than sharing your passion for fashion and heading to your favourite city. We’ve put together a list for all you fashion lovers of all the best fashion exhibitions to go see during the summer this year.

Tiffany and Co. Vision & Virtuosity

Saatchi Gallery, London until 19 August 2022

The exhibition marks the high fashion jewelers’ 150-year anniversary of being in London. Based within the Saatchi Gallery there is even a room dedicated to the iconic movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s. The exhibition showcases a visual story of the brand including the archives of high jewelry including the Empire Diamond over 80 carats. An unforgettable dive into Tiffany’s craftsmanship and heritage, with nine stores now based in London, it stands as a celebration of this important legacy. Entering a seven-sectioned journey through a visual tour of history that featured over 400 unique pieces that define the house. It is free to attend, tickets just need to be booked via Tiffany & Co’s Exhibition app. It is also recommended to bring headphones for an immersive audio tour.

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

V&A Museum, London until 6 November 2022

In partnership with Gucci, the renowned London Museum explores masculinity as we reflect on gender and men’s fashion. Looking into the creativity and how designers over the years have constructed masculinity in fashion and also began to unravel gender. Gucci seems like the perfect sponsor known for their rule breaking approach to fashion and recent venture into gender neutral fashion with Harry Styles. The exhibition highlights way back to 1845 what was considered menswear to recent affairs from Alessandro Michele for Gucci and Craig Green SS21. The entry costs £20 and is available on the V&A website to pre-book.

Gianni Versace Retrospective

The Groninger Museum, Netherlands until May 2023

Taking a look back on Gianna Versace’s couture days where he thrived as an extravagant designer with his lavish runways. The museum honours his legendary designs after his death 25 years ago. Although Versace continues to run the catwalks today, this special exhibition focuses entirely on the founder Gianni’s exceptional work. The Retrospect exhibition showcases everything from outfits, accessories and fabrics to drawings and footage of the ground-breaking shows of the 90’s. The exhibition was curated by Karl von der Ahé and Saskia Lubnow, Gianni Versace experts. As one of the most important designers of the 20th century the exhibition explores the supermodel era, Ancient Greece, pop art and bondage and the 1997 murder.

Click here to read the full article and find the other two exhibitions you can head to this summer.

What's happening in the industry this week💚?

Gucci announces collab with Harry Styles

Taking the brand ambassador role of the beloved musician further

We have seen the likes of Balenciaga X The Simpsons, Gucci X Adidas, or Fendi X Versace and the luxury world of fashion is not slowing down anytime soon. The Kering-owned fashion house presented its latest collab this week with none other than Harry Styles.

The collection named HA HA HA is a partnership of friendship between the Creative Director Alessandro Michele, and the infamous singer and songwriter Harry Styles.

The 25-piece capsule collection will go on sale in Gucci stores from October. Gucci hopes to reach new heights with celebrity power with their medium-term sales target of €15 billion a year!

The collection was presented for the first time at Milan Fashion Week menswear edition at a special event. Creative Director of Gucci Alessandro Michele and Harry Styles met back in 2015 and have had a strong friendship ever since. Styles is known for breaking gender biases and often seen in Gucci ensembles on his tour. The collection is inspired by 1970’s, fun and friendship, playfulness, and a mix of English and Italian heritage.

“The idea of working together came to me one day while we were talking on the phone: I proposed creating a ‘dream wardrobe’ with him, starting from those small oddities that come together in childlike visions. We ended up with a mix of aesthetics from 1970s pop and bohemian to the revision of the image of the gentleman in an overturned memory of men’s tailoring.” - Alessandro Michele, Creative Director

Could there be a more fitting pair than Styles and Gucci? What do you think about luxury brands on celebrity collaborations?

A European Fashion Alliance has been formed

25 European fashion councils and organizations have joined forces to create one European union of fashion. The alliance was co-founded at a summit in Frankfurt, originally organized by Fashion Council Germany.

“Fashion is a key industry for creative design. I know that you have come together today, to discuss amongst others, the possibility of creating the European Fashion Alliance. I personally think this is a brilliant idea. See me as a facilitator and count on my support.” - Mariya Gabriel, European commissioner

The focus of the alliances of the councils is to work towards a sustainable and inclusive fashion future.

Europe's most valuable brands announce Louis Vuitton in top 10 The latest report released by Bran Finance shows that French powerhouse Louis Vuitton was the only luxury fashion company to make the top 10 of most valuable European brands.

The annual report for 2022 left LV at number eight, with Mercedes at number one with the majority of companies being German. Louis Vuitton has been valued at 20.2 billion euros as a brand.

The closest fashion company was 17th with Kering’s Gucci which was valued at 15.6 billion euros. Within the top 25, there were only three fashion houses that made the cut, also including Chanel at 24th with a value of 13.2 billion euros.

In a separate assessment of strength from Brand Finance, Dior is rated the 6th strongest brand.

Hailey Bieber has been served trademark infringement The model celebrated the launch week of her new skincare line Rhode. However this week she was met with legal action over the name of her brand.

Rhode which is Bieber’s middle name and holds a special meaning to the brand, as the name she also shares with her mother who taught her all about skincare and taking care of herself.

After a week of press, live TV, a launch party, and a successful sell-out, legal action has now been taken by fashion company ‘Rhode’ over the name. Founded in 2014 by Phoebe Vickers and Purna Khatau, their fashion brand is currently stocked at Net-a-Porter and Matches. The founders released this statement to Instagram:

shoprhode

A post shared by RHODE (@shoprhode)

It seems Hailey Bieber had tried to purchase the name from the fashion company back in 2018 but they refused after building a business from the ground. What do you think will happen next?

Fashion Career Tip of the Week

How do you succeed at the job interview so you can land the fashion job of your dreams? Only 2% of the applicants get a job interview. And in fashion where on average 500 people apply for the same job, this means that only 10 people get to the job interview and only 1 at the end gets the job.

Just getting the job interview is an enormous achievement you should be very proud of. The hardest part in fact of the job search many times is in fact getting to this interview.

The final hiring decision is based on two things:

65% of the hiring decision is given by a gut feeling about whether you’ll be a good fit for the company
35% is influenced by how you answer, say and do during the job interview

So if you need help mastering the job interview, listen to the podcast episode to learn 3 things to refresh (or learn) before going to a job interview with a fashion company now on Apple Podcast or Spotify

Nice things

A first glimpse at Gucci X Harry Styles…

Gucci’s creative director shared a small snippet of the tag on her Instagram in light of the news this week.

HA HA HA is not just a playful title for the collection, but is in fact the initials of ‘Harry’ and ‘Alessandro’ to symbolize their creative collaboration. Over their seven year friendship they have expressed laughter and heartwarming moments.

”Stitched into the label of the new collection that gathers the elements characterizing their artistic paths and peculiarities, their relationship finds a tangible expression.” - Gucci

alessandro_michele

A post shared by Alessandro Michele (@alessandro_michele)

What to watch this week

Dior Spa Cheval Blanc is hitting the water the luxury brand’s spa Parisian experience is setting sail in a new direction with an entire well-being cruise starting June 29.

Starting off Couture season ashore, the two-hour cruise along the Seine provides a luxurious dive into beauty. With an intimate number of passengers allowed on board, the spa boat will offer 60-minute face and body treatments.

The upper deck of the boat faces the Eiffel Tower and offers a sanctuary for relaxation. The Dior Spa has always offered the utmost genuine well-being experience.Why not take a dive into the Dior Cheval Blanc Paris Spa to see the level of luxury well-being and what we could expect from their years’ French cruise.

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Fashion Profiles to follow this week

Cavallienastri is A vintage shop in Milan (that ships worldwide btw!) where Gucci shot their HAHAHA collection. The historic menswear boutique set the backdrop to unveil to Styles and Gucci collab as the perfect fit of historic tailoring and 1970’s aesthetic.

Dani Michele is becoming the latest model go-to stylist! Hailey Bieber seems to have made a jump from Maeve Riley to Michele for her upcoming week of business chic press outfits. Whereas it seems Kendall Jenner is an often client of hers.