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FLYING PERKS: Etihad Airways has launched Runway to Runway, a travel program tailored to the fashion industry that will be unveiled during New York Fashion Week.
Etihad, which forged a fashion partnership with IMG last year, offers Runway to Runway members discounts on airfare and other services, preferred corporate rates for business travel, discounted cargo rates and special group travel rates when traveling for photo shoots, showing collections overseas or conducting business globally.
“Very few industries travel as much as the fashion industry does, spending tens of millions annually,” said Patrick Pierce, vice president of sponsorships, Etihad Airways. He said the travel program offers practical benefits.
Fashion industry members will receive additional benefits, depending on their guest tier level, whether that be gold status, silver status or guest status, ranging from lounge access for members and a guest, additional baggage allowances to complimentary upgrades and onboard Wi-Fi. Guest status will receive fashion news, exclusive access to partner promotions and be eligible for invitations to special fashion events including fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan, Mumbai and Sydney.
Etihad Airways supports 17 fashion events around the world annually. To support the new program, Nicole Kidman and Lauren Santo Domingo of Moda Operandi will host

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BOX FRESH: Riccardo Tisci may have quit his day job, but he’s still churning out the sneaker styles for Nike.
The self-confessed sneaker head on Monday unveiled a new style, the NikeLab Dunk Lux Chukka x RT, which will go on sale Feb. 10 at Bergdorf Goodman’s NikeLab, NikeLab 21M, Dover Street Market New York, Kith BK and Concepts NYC, to be followed by NikeLab retailers and nike.com from Feb. 23.
Tisci, who estimates he has more than 1,000 pairs of sneakers, kicked off his collaboration with Nike with a colorful, tribal-tinged interpretation of the Air Force 1 in 2014.
He followed up last year with his first Dunk collaboration, the NikeLab Dunk Lux High x RT, two training shoes, the Free Train Force Flyknit x RT and the Transform Flyknit x RT, and a Chelsea boot, the Air Zoom Legend x RT.
“I think the Dunk has something that’s very special. It’s grounded in sport as well as in the street-style culture,” Tisci said Monday. “For younger generations, it can fit as many different styles tribes as you can imagine. I think it’s one of the most iconic shoes that Nike has ever created.”
Like the Dunk Lux High, the new shoe features exaggerated

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Elsa Schiaparelli, political freedom and words of empowerment are among the diverse influences that moved designers for fall.

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India’s textile and apparel industry is banking on informal assurances of increased central government support, after it was largely ignored in this month’s formal announcement of the national budget.

One of the largest synthetic yarn production plants in Central America is to open in Honduras aimed at attracting more specialised manufacturing industries for the transformation of the fibre.

Antimicrobial solutions provider Noble Biomaterials has joined forces with product design and development group Bemis Associates to develop seamless, conductive advanced material that allows for the integration of electronics into apparel.

Eton Systems, which supplies unit production systems to the apparel industry, is looking to strengthen its local presence by relocating to the US as part of plans to be more flexible and offer optimised delivery precision.

The jeanswear division of US apparel giant VF Corp, which includes its Wrangler and Lee brands, is partnering with the University of North Carolina to incorporate 3D design technology into its curriculum, to help prepare students for careers in the apparel and retail industries.

Jerry Lorenzo isn’t the typical men’s fashion designer. He holds an MBA instead of a degree from a fashion school, and he prefers to scour vintage stores and flea markets rather than sketch. He also waited 16 months before unveiling the latest collection for Fear of God, his cult label that has attracted fans such as Justin Bieber, Russell Westbrook, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid.
In Fear of God’s Fifth Collection, which is the equivalent of a fall 2017 release, Lorenzo stuck with high school in the Nineties as his theme. This time, though, he walked across the hall from the classroom where the grunge rockers who inspired his Fourth Collection hang to the spot occupied by the hip-hop crew that also excels at sports.
“The muse is more of this high school athlete of the Nineties who, at the time, dictated what is cool in fashion,” he said during a preview at his studio in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaking this muse’s athletic language, Lorenzo introduced mesh and put a lot of attention on sweats, basketball shorts and jerseys. He also veered off course into punkish plaid pants with drawstring waists and unzipped ankles and pajama-style shirts and coats. He expanded his textile

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NEW YORK — After a year without a fashion show, Badgley Mischka will be back on the runway Feb. 14 at Skylight Clarkson Sq here.
The New York Fashion Week return of Mark Badgley and James Mischka coincides with this week’s launch of sportswear — a first for the 29-year-old company.
In March, in a joint venture with footwear licensee Titan Industries Inc. and apparel licensee MJCLK LLC, Badgley and Mischka acquired the rights to the Badgley Mischka trademark and other Badgley Mischka IP from Iconix Brand Group for $16 million in cash.
Through a joint venture with the China Ting Group, the pair have spent a lot of time in China lately on the company’s 300-acre campus, using golf carts to get from one work assignment to the next. The fact that the company weaves many of its fabrics was a plus, as well as its experience with other designer labels.
During a preview of the sportswear, which ships to stores in July, Badgley said, “Our couture will always be our core business but the world has gotten so casual.” That was something they heard repeatedly from loyal customers, trunk show shoppers and via the brand’s social media platforms.
As a result, their version

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