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DC Shoes co-founder dies in snowmobile accident

Inside Retail

Together they launched several artist collaborations and limited edition releases in DC’s product line popularising its identity among athletes and creators in the nineties. Block sold his remaining shares and transitioned into a professional rally driver in 2004 as Quicksilver bought the company.

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Gandys announces New London store inspired by travel and purpose-driven design

Retail Focus

The first project was built in Sri Lanka where Gandys founders and brothers Rob and Paul Forkan lost their parents in the devastating 2004 tsunami. A new and special edition are the Gandys Campus graphic t-shirts, designed in collaboration with artists Dan Arab and Guy Train.

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How the return of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show could create “brand heat”

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First introduced in 2004, the annual fashion show was put on hiatus in 2019 after the show reported its lowest-ever ratings in 2018. As part of this, the retailer went to four cities and spotlighted five artists in each city. This coincided with a decline in revenues and several major store closures.

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Louis Vuitton picks Pharrell Williams to head menswear designs

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LVMH’s top label Louis Vuitton said on Tuesday it has hired Pharrell Williams to head artistic direction of its menswear designs, tapping a popular figure from the music industry to fill the high-profile position left vacant since the death of star designer Virgil Abloh over a year ago.

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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

A landscape artist? Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. In this way, she says he has more in common with the artists and designers of today than perhaps he ever did with his contemporaries. “Was he a designer? A sculptor? Sapporo, Japan. ©INFGM

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CGI, manga and fantasy: Sydney fashion label Injury launches NFT art series

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In 2004, Eugene Leung started the Injury label , initially releasing 10 limited-edition screen-printed tops followed by an official menswear range, which launched during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia. A multi-disciplined artist, musician, fashion visionary and digital explorer, Leung has pivoted the brand to focus on 3D fashion.

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The Adoption of Pop-Up Stores by Luxury Brands

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The Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, with founder Rei Kawakubo, notably launched the first pop-up store in Berlin in 2004, drawing crowds with normal retail-priced items and creating a sense of urgency that remains influential in shoppers today.

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