The Russian designer has teamed up with rapper Kanye West to design menswear for Yeezy and inked a deal with a new financial backer to relaunch his Gosha Rubchinskiy label.

A crop of platform-like brand incubators, from New Guards Group and Tomorrow to Dover Street Market Paris, are spinning up new fashion labels for a hype cycle that’s moving faster and faster.

This week, Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia exited the subversive luxury streetwear label, raising questions about the future of the brand — and the state of fashion itself.

The Italian fashion group that owns Diesel, Marni and Maison Margiela added to its existing investment in the brand founded by the Dutch design duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren in 1993.

The Italian brand is linking with streetwear wunderkind Samuel Ross for the fourth iteration of its Red Tag project.

Demna Gvasalia may be the very public face of Georgian fashion but behind the scenes it is a different story. BoF reveals the power brokers investing in the market.

Reference Berlin will combine fashion, art, music and technology and feature both emerging designers and big luxury players.

Hirotaka Sasako went from shop floor to buyer at Dover Street Market after impressing Rei Kawakubo. Now, he’s opening his own multi-brand store in Tokyo, stocking buzzy brands like Wales Bonner, Namacheko and Stefan Cooke.