Month: March 2019

HIGH-END FASHION OPTIONS: One-year-old size-inclusive shopping site 11 Honoré hosted a breakfast at Sadelle’s in New York Thursday to toast the launch of their editorial content platform, Page 11, focused on fashion, beauty, personal style and wellness. And toast may be an understatement. The breakfast consisted of house salmon tower, grapefruit cocktail, blueberry pancakes, cheese blintzes, scrambled eggs, sausage and avocado. And plenty of bagels — giving journalists and influencers enough sustenance to power through the…

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Jason Wu is well aware that the fashion industry is drastically different from when he started 11 years ago. He, like many of his peers — Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, Alexander Wang — in the generation of designers that buzzed in on the wave of new blood in the Aughts, has felt the retail/digital/streetwear reckoning of the last three to five years in a real way. “We’re all somewhere in the middle right now,” Wu said…

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WWD: Please sum up the state of American fashion today. Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez: American fashion definitely seems to be undergoing a big shift. People are trying to figure out what’s next. The younger generation of American designers seems to have also fractured, each going our own way, doing what feels right for each of us. Everyone seems to be trying to come up with ways to modernize the sometimes archaic system of fashion, whether that be…

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LONDON — London designers have rejected real fur, and no one will be using it on the London Fashion Week catwalks for the spring 2019 season. The British Fashion Council said Friday that no one plans to show fur in their collections, according to its recent survey of all on-schedule designers. The news comes on the heels of Burberry’s decision to eliminate fur from its collections, with the exception of shearling, and follows similar policies by…

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Watch the Tory Burch Spring/Summer 2019 New York Fashion Week Show live on WWD on Friday, September 7 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.

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In part two of WWD’s New York Fashion Week pre-show coverage for spring 2019, travel continues to serve as inspirational fodder. Michael Kors Collection will dream up a “global utopia”; Christian Siriano was inspired by “the perfect dream holiday vacation in Hawaii,” while Mark Badgley and James Mischka are celebrating 30 years in business “through the looking glass.” Grittier influences include Stacey Bendet’s “Passport to Wonderland” for Alice + Olivia, Veronica Beard’s interpretation of “hot…

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Watch The Blonds Spring/Summer 2019 New York Fashion Week Show live on WWD on Friday, September 7 at 9:00 p.m. EDT.

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ENNINFUL AWARDED: The amfAR Gala is returning to Milan during fashion week, with its 10th annual event to be held on Sept. 22 — and once again sure to prove as one of the city’s glitziest happenings. At the occasion, British Vogue editor in chief Edward Enninful will be presented with amfAR’s Award of Courage in recognition of his outstanding personal commitment to the fight against AIDS. Enninful took the reins at British Vogue in August…

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TEN-YEAR MARK: Bibhu Mohapatra is gearing up for his brand’s big One-O. Mohapatra, who was at Supima’s 11th annual design competition runway show Thursday, said things have been going “very well.” He spoke cryptically about a “major change” that he has been working on, noting that the change will be unveiled in February when his brand celebrates its 10th anniversary. The only hint the designer gave was that the “business has restrategized due to the changing…

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NEW YORK — A strapless dress billowing with what looked like five giant one-dollar bills and clasped on the side with what looked like a silver clip was one of the many unexpected looks at the Parsons MFA “Generation 7” show Friday morning. Barely there mesh cutout bodywear, men’s black leather shorts and blazer and a circus-like swing dress printed with smartphone-wielding hands were among the styles that were paraded down the runway at Spring…

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