Month: March 2019

NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony took the day after the official end of New York Fashion Week to unveil his latest forays into fashion. The NBA All-Star and new member of the Houston Rockets took over a space in the Meatpacking District to introduce Melo Made, an ongoing series of brand collaborations with some of the athlete’s favorite fashion brands. Although Anthony has been associated with everyone from Ultra Sheen and Goorin Bros. hats to…

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WASTE NOT: “I want to make the most glamorous pieces out of trash — it’s almost like a joke to the industry,” said Kevin Germanier of his fashion creations. His label offers an alternative approach to luxury and what is considered to be waste. A Louis Vuitton alumnus, Germanier is known for his exuberant, heavily beaded creations made from materials that would otherwise be discarded. He produced his graduate collection using multicolor beads he found…

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Bergdorf Goodman and Golden Door are teaming up on a wellness-themed speaker series. Three events are scheduled for September, November and January. The first, a conversation with neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley on living with technology in a “balanced way,” is set for Thursday, Sept. 20. The speaker series is a joint brainchild of both the retailer and the California-based luxury spa, which is helmed by chief executive officer Kathy Van Ness, a department store retail veteran.…

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ONWARD AND UPWARD: For many in the fashion crowd, Nancy Chilton’s name has been synonymous with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. She has taken on a larger role, having been promoted to chief external relations officer for the Costume Institute. For four years, Chilton has served as chief communications officer for the department. In her new post, she will continue to head communications for the Costume Institute’s exhibitions, special projects and the Met…

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New York Fashion Week is a wrap. Ralph Lauren celebrated 50 years in Central Park. Rodarte returned with a hauntingly beautiful show at Marble Cemetery. Proenza Schouler also returned from Paris. Marc Jacobs delivered on high fashion. Nicki Minaj and Cardi B made headlines at the Harper’s Bazaar Icons party. Slick Woods went into labor immediately after Rihanna’s first Savage x Fenty show, which officially closed out the week. More importantly, the fashion — the…

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  LONDON – All the world’s a stage for Victoria Beckham, who plans to connect with her public like never before, during — and after — her first London Fashion Week show on Sunday morning. The show, at Ropac Gallery near Beckham’s Dover Street flagship, will mark her 10 years in business and will be live-streamed on the big 4K LED digital screen in Piccadilly Circus, known as Piccadilly Lights. Beckham is also planning an array of…

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PARIS — When Hedi Slimane joined Celine in February, the first thing he did was design a new bag. It was a smart move, considering accessories make up an estimated 65 percent of the brand’s revenues and its owner, French luxury titan Bernard Arnault, had touted the arrival of the “global superstar” designer as heralding a doubling or tripling of Celine’s turnover within five years. Fortunately, creating accessories is an exercise Slimane relishes. The designer,…

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Revolve Clothing issued a mea culpa in the early hours of Friday for inadvertently causing a furor with its LPA slogan shirts. “We messed up big. We are so sorry for hurting and offending you,” the company posted on its Instagram account. In what began as a campaign to protest against internet trolls, the online retailer wound up offending many more women when it released a photo of a sample-sized model wearing an LPA x…

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E-commerce destination Carbon38 is now a bicoastal brick-and-mortar presence with the graduation of its Bridgehampton pop-up to permanent status, and next week’s opening of a newly built boutique in Palisades Village. Like the other boutiques in the retail center, Carbon38 was able to impart its own design aesthetic on the exterior as well as the interior. The 1,141-square-foot store designed by Montalba Architects features a blackened steel storefront and charred wood canopy riffing on the…

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STATELY AFFAIR: Tricolor macarons by Pierre Hermé and bags and T-shirts marked Président or Première Dame — President and First Lady, in English — by Le Slip Français will be among the made-in-France goodies up for grabs at a pop-up shop headed to the forecourt of the Élysée Palace this weekend, as part of European Heritage Days. In the red-white-and-blue-themed mix are Élysée-branded mugs and notebooks by Mug in France and La Maison du Carnet. Président T-shirt…

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