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The new influencers: How luxury brands are targeting...

Gone are the days of becoming rich or famous through reality TV and leaked porn tapes – today’s influencers thankfully have some integrity. They are the social media stars, the taste-makers, the judge and the jury of what is hot and hip now. Brands now recognise the arrival of the “era of millennials,” who not only are about to become the largest spending generation in history but also confidently re-define the vision of luxury. With 47% of this group making their purchase decisions under the influence of social media, luxury brands have had no other choice but to rise to the challenge.   Research from Digital Luxury Group shows 40% of Google results for branded and technical watch brand terms are from blogs and forums. Chiara Ferragani from The Blonde Salad, Kristina Bazan of Kayture, Aimee Song from Song of Style, Leandra Medine of The Man Repeller, and many more have already collaborated with luxury brands in impactful ways.

Kate Moss turns 43: a look back at her most iconic moments

With over twenty years in the spotlight, we have Miss Moss to thank for the rise of skinny jeans and a fervour for leopard print. Today has yet to be declared a public national holiday so for the mean time, The Sybarite celebrates by re-visiting the model’s most stylish and iconic moments. 1990: Discovered by Corinne Day in the very early 90’s, Kate Moss was featured on the front cover of ‘The Face’ as a 15-year-old girl. Looking like a heart-wrenchingly cute adolescent with limbs too long to handle, Kate Moss’ career was launched then and there. "That's one of my favorite pictures.” Says Kate Moss, “[Photographer] Corinne [Day] really did try and change the way people saw fashion. She hated what was going on at the time: those kind of pictures of the high-roller kind of women, which she didn't find attractive at all.” 1992: Photographed for a Calvin Klein campaign with Mark Wahlberg, a fresh-faced 17 year-old Kate Moss oozes confidence in front of the camera.

Sybarite selections: luxury nightwear

Fast fashion: How luxury e-tailers are keeping up with...

By 2025, the online share of total luxury sales is predicted to be 18%, and a whopping £70 billion annually. As a result, luxury e-tailers are still finding their feet when it comes to meeting high consumer demand, especially during the busy festive season. Announced on Monday, Matchesfashion.com has introduced a new delivery service that allows customers across London to receive their purchase only 90-minutes after they have placed an order. Chief executive Ulric Jerome told the Evening Standard: “This new service means a City worker who has just pulled an all-nighter can order a fresh set of clothes for that important first meeting of the day, or a last-minute invitation in the evening with nothing to wear won’t be a problem anymore.” The service is already available on the site with a £12 charge, adding one more option to the retailer’s available delivery services that also include Next Day and Express delivery. Customers who wish to purchase using 90-minute delivery have to place their orders from 6.30am to 10pm. The service is already available on the site with a £12 charge, adding one more option to the retailer’s available delivery services that also include Next Day and Express delivery. Customers who wish to purchase using 90-minute delivery have to place their orders from 6.30am to 10pm.

Sybarite selections: designer ski season

Can luxury fashion make the move to sustainability?

What does sustainability mean? It’s become a buzzword in recent years but while - when we buy something to eat, opt to walk to work or take public transport instead of climbing in our cars - we have become better about thinking about the impact on the planet, we haven’t done so well on the fashion front. And that’s an enormous concern because, according to the Living Planet Report, if we continue consuming at our current rate in the western world, we would need the resources of two planets by 2030. We’re also at risk of losing huge amounts of the wildlife and ecosystems which we depend on for food, fuel, clean water and more, due to expansion and development in an attempt to sustain our populations. For all that, luxury brands have been slow in embracing clothes that consumers can feel good about as well as look good in.

Q&A: Francesca Barrow, Façonner CEO

When luxury meets innovation: meet the season hats founders

Designed by award-winning milliner, Paul Safford, and made by hand using the highest quality materials, London-based luxury headwear company, The Season Hats, offers  casual hats, hairbands, headpieces and - their signature - folding hats for special occasions. They aim to create headwear that is simultaneously luxurious and contemporary, directional and flattering to compliment the modern woman’s wardrobe. Providing a business mind to match his creative one is Paul’s wife Selina. Having met at Cambridge University over 10 years ago, the couple married in 2013. During their university years, Paul would create small pieces for his beau to wear to balls, training in millinery “as an escape from a career in accountancy.” Unable to fight his creative passion any longer, yet wanting to combine his creativity with his the scientific logic garnered from his Natural Sciences degree, Paul left work to do a short course at the London College of Fashion. “I loved working with the materials, the tradition and innovation of the craft and it all developed from there”, Paul says.  “I ended up apprenticing with Rachel Trevor Morgan (milliner to HM The Queen) and taking a Masters in Millinery graduate degree from The Royal College of Art.”

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Versus Versace to collaborate on a new collection with...

The former member of worldwide-hit boyband One Direction will design a collection for the Versus brand, and will be the face of Versus in upcoming advertising campaigns. The collaboration may not come as a surprise to some, as ZAYN has always harboured a love for fashion, wearing a futuristic Versace robotlike arm sheath to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute ball in May and creating a 23-piece streetwear line under his own name earlier this year. The 23-year-old R&B singer has become a known face in the fashion world through his relationship with supermodel of the moment and IT girl, Gigi Hadid, who is close friends with the brand's matriarch, Donatella Versace, who said at London Fashion Week that "“Versus is the rock and roll soul of the Versace family and has always been associated with music." ZAYN will design a capsule collection of men’s and women’s clothing in close collaboration with Donatella Versace for Versus under the ZAYN X VERSUS label. The collection will debut in Versus stores worldwide and on the website in May 2017.