Jackie Mallon

SCAD Fashion 2024 presented runway collections by its senior and graduate students on the runway at SCAD Museum of Art on Friday, May 17. The show followed the presentation of the coveted André Leon Talley Award to Brother Vellies founder, vice-chair of CFDA, activist founder of the Fifteen Percent Pledge and author, Aurora James, who appeared on stage wearing a dress by SCAD alum, Class of 2016, Christopher John Rogers.

May 20 is an important day for denim historians. On this day in 1873 Levi Strauss and a tailor named Jacob Davis from Nevada received the US patent for adding rivets to the pockets of workwear pants, creating a landmark design innovation. The day is referred to as the birth of the modern blue jean or 501 Day within Levi's World. It is also the day FashionUnited interviewed Tracey Panek who has been Levi's historian for the past ten years. From her desk in the company's San Francisco headquarters, surrounded by brand memorabilia such as a doll wearing the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics uniform which Levi's supplied for the US team, she discusses her career, and the roles of historian and director of the archives within the heritage denim brand.

Parsons tried something different this year for their BFA fashion show held in the august Hall Des Lumières in lower Manhattan.

Rhode Island School of Design presented its first graduate fashion show since the pandemic on the Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend.

An annual staple in the world of fashion art, the Fida awards (Fashion Illustration and Design Awards) took place on May 31st recognizing the up-and-coming talent in the field.

As 2024 unfolds, retailers have shifted from recessionary expectations to a more hopeful outlook.

The 100-year old British brand, Antler, is redefining luxury travel experiences for modern jet setters.

Giorgio Armani turns ninety on the 11th of this month, and with this impressive life milestone I can't help but reflect on my time as a womenswear designer on his team at the turn of the new millennium.

When you're an educator standing in front of a class of expectant upturned faces for the first time, it's often a nerve-wracking case of sink or swim.

Savannah College of Art and Design is a private art school founded in 1978 by Paula Wallace, then an elementary school teacher with a different vision for creative studies in the US, who remains president to this day. The seat of learning that she built, on a loan from her parents and a dream, now has Georgia locations in both Savannah and Atlanta, and one in Lacoste, France, along with a global reputation. Hollywood stars, members of the global press and media and CEOs from the fashion industry all regularly descend on the three locations at the request of President Wallace to address and inspire the students.