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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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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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OBSESSED: Clique Media Group has become a staple at social media-forward events.
So it was no surprise to find the company’s cofounder Hillary Kerr participating in a spirited discussion this weekend with Rebecca Minkoff ahead of the designer’s spring 2017 presentation at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. The two sat before a group of about 50 to talk about entrepreneurship, leadership and social media before Kerr caught WWD up on the latest at Clique Media — the parent of digital brands such as Who What Wear, My Domaine, Byrdie and Obsessee.
Social media content maker Obsessee, one of the company’s newer brands, was at The Grove last summer for a brief pop-up. It marked Obsessee’s first foray into the brick-and-mortar world when it took over The Grove’s pop-up-designated glass pod at the center lawn.
The store was unique in that customers purchased items using social media currency. That is, instead of cash or credit to pay, they were required to post on places such as Instagram or Twitter to earn currency.
“It went so well. We had a line around the block the entire time we were there,” said Kerr, who herself went in to buy a pen using social currency.
The pop-up was such

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PARIS — Could Virgil Abloh be a contender to succeed Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy?
According to sources, the French fashion house has held discussions with the American designer behind the Off-White label, who is also Kanye West’s creative director.
Givenchy confirmed to WWD exclusively last week that Tisci has exited the house after a 12-year tenure, in the latest chapter of creative upheaval in the top ranks of international fashion, launching immediate speculation about who could succeed him.
Asked about the Abloh rumors, a spokeswoman for the house said on Monday that it had no comment. Reached on Monday, Abloh also declined to comment on Givenchy specifically, though he reiterated his previously stated aim of eventually taking the reins of a leading luxury house. “My trajectory is to update and provide something new in the fashion industry by way of creating a project and using it as a case study on how to update a luxury house,” he told WWD.
Part of a rising generation of young designers that includes Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga and Vetements and Gosha Rubchinskiy, Abloh designs men’s and women’s collections and has spoken in the past about how he would like to shake up the establishment.
“I have a litany of

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