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Want to know what fashion luxury brands are paying their interns?
What luxury brands are paying their interns
We made an up-to-date list of internship salaries, plus typical weekly hours and any perks, too!
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March 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Given the recent appointments and the news of Donatella’s departure, we’re questioning the future of MFW in terms of female leadership:
Milan’s fashion matriarchy is dying a slow death
Milan’s fashion matriarchy is fading. Our analysis of fashion weeks reveals a stark gender gap in creative leadership—why aren’t women getting top roles?
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March 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Discover this year's IFM MA Fashion graduates' collections and sketchbooks:
#fashion #fashiondesign #sketchbooks
IFM MA 2025: Designing for the past, present and future
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March 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Why do luxury Creative Directors keep using their brands' cheat sheets?
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The tedious repetition of luxury fashion
The rich pasts of brands like Valentino, Dior and Schiaparelli are currently compensating for a lack of bold new ideas. What does that mean for their future?
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March 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Why is it so hard to run a fashion business in London?
Read more here: 1granary.substack.com/p/london-fas...
March 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
DAZED Magazine’s Fashion Features Director Emma Davidson touches on her journey and background in clothes-making, a call centre, and content creation:
Emma Davidson on following a non-linear path
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March 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Once the world's capital for avant-garde design, London's designers have been left adrift. What now?
#fashion #fashionindustry #lfw #londonfashionweek
London Fashion Week: All the gear and no idea
Once the world's capital for avant-garde design, London's designers have been left adrift. What now?
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March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We put together a list of the best how-tos for sewing zips on, lining tracksuits and other important techniques:
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The DIY YouTube tutorials that designers swear by
A few of the best how-tos for sewing zips on, lining tracksuits and other important techniques.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There needs to be more transparency around design internships. We are gathering information on design internships to promote wider transparency for anybody looking to gain work experience.
Help your peers out, and fill in our short survey:
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Fashion Designer Internships
We are gathering anonymous information on fashion designer internships to promote wider transparency for students or anybody looking to gain work experience.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When brands grow too quickly, they rarely last. Here is why:
#fashiondesign #fashionbusiness
When brands grow too quickly, they rarely last
Here's why you shouldn't start hiring and expanding your office as soon as your sales increase. (It's not just because your costs go up).
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February 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
How to become a photographer: 4 photographers on the most important advice they received. Read more:
#photography #fashionphotography #photographer #art
4 photographers on the most important advice they received
Nick Knight, Anton Gottlob, Sirui Ma and Alex Aruaz tell us how they started their careers.
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February 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Christian Dior crescent moon clutch from the 1950's
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We put together a list of photography prizes you can enter this year. Be quick! Some of them close this week :)
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#photography #fashionphotography #photographer #photographyprizes
39 photography prizes you can enter this year
Quick, a couple of them close this week!
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February 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Me ready to analyse Bianca Censori's Grammys outfit only because I've read "Ways of Seeing" and a Laura Mulvey essay for my fashion theory class:
February 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Everyone dreads the sting of harsh criticism, but what if it’s the very thing you need to level up?
#art #creativity #fashion
The art of taking feedback
Everyone dreads the sting of harsh criticism, but what if it’s the very thing you need to level up?
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January 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you're starting a fashion brand, you need a co-founder.
From splitting debt to avoiding decision fatigue, here's a few reasons why you shouldn't do it alone:
#fashion #fashionbrand #fashionbusiness #fashiondesign
You need a co-founder if you're starting a brand
From splitting debt to avoiding decision fatigue, here's a few reasons why you shouldn't do it alone.
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January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New creative directors bring chaos for in-house designers. We spoke to employees at luxury brands like Givenchy, Bottega, and Celine to understand the toll these ever-more regular changes take:
#fashion #fashionindustry #creativedirectors
New creative directors bring chaos for in-house designers
We spoke to employees at luxury brands like Givenchy, Bottega, and Celine to understand the toll these ever-more regular changes take.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Discover the work of this year's HEAD Genève MA graduates of 2024:
HEAD Genève MA 2024: specialised designers, big ideas
This year’s MA Head Geneve graduates embodied a diverse approach to contemporary design and conceptual thinking
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January 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"I use this machine that jams that ink into paper that's a quarter of an inch thick, so there's a beautiful marriage of materials there that can't be achieved any other way."
- David Lynch on Printmaking
#davidlynch #lithography #printmaking #art
January 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New York independent designer to writer: Hey man, would $900 dollars work for a press release? Sorry we are running on a limited budget.

London independent designer paying all their collaborators with a drink and a good time:
January 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New here, and sharing one of our latest newsletters with all the free fashion courses you can take this January:
#fashion #1granary #fashionresources #fashiondesign
All the free online courses to take in January
1 Granary’s guide to the free fashion schools, libraries, museums and university courses to up-skill yourself in 2025.
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January 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM