Month: March 2019

On the eve of Milan Fashion Week, performance apparel company Colmar unveiled its collaboration with American designer Shayne Oliver with a party filled with fake snow, held Tuesday night at the Arco Della Pace venue here. The collaboration between Oliver and Colmar falls under the sportswear company’s A.G.E. project, which stands for Advanced Garment Exploration. The company plans to conscript designers and other creative types to give its heritage with a contemporary take. Oliver’s capsule…

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TAKE TWO: “If I think that I’m in my store in Milan — that I never thought I would have — with one of the most beautiful women in the world, [whom] I designed the collection with, it’s like a dream come true and I couldn’t have asked for more,” said Colombian designer Edgardo Osorio while looking at Claudia Schiffer on Tuesday. Aquazzura’s founder and creative director was joined by the German supermodel at the…

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CRUISING TO CHINA: As European fashion houses angle to gain favor with Chinese consumers, Miu Miu is taking its resort 2019 show, staged in Paris in June, to Shanghai on Nov. 22. “The latest iteration of the Miu Miu Club is to celebrate the glory of modern-day Shanghai and to continue the dialogue between Miu Miu and Asian women,” the label said in a statement, referring to the one-night-only hot spots that Miuccia Prada creates…

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PRADA’S WOMEN: The “Prada Invites” project is female. The fashion house has invited three creative women — Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller and Kazuyo Sejima — to each reinterpret the label’s signature nylon material. The five designs, developed by the celebrated architects, will be unveiled on Thursday at the brand’s show, held once again at the Fondazione Prada’s Torre venue. The Prada spring 2019 show invitation also celebrated the project and came in the form of…

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LONDON — Harvey Nichols is seeing its revenues grow, as the storewide refurbishment of its Knightsbridge flagship starts to take shape. In the financial year ending March 2018, revenues were up 9 percent to 210 million pounds, compared with 194 million pounds last year. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization were up 102 percent, to 14.7 million pounds, compared with 7.3 million pounds last year, when the store’s ongoing overhaul ate into the retailer’s…

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Orla Kiely, the Irish homeware and fashion brand has shuttered, after parent company Kiely Rowan PLC ceased operations, earlier this week. The brand’s web site and brick-and-mortar stores — located in Covent Garden and King’s Road in London and Kildare in Ireland — have also stopped trading, with immediate effect. According to British media reports, company employees were also made redundant without pay and escorted out of the building on Monday. “We apologize for any…

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Watch Nicholas Kunz of Nicholas K and Torsten Hochstetter of PUMA chat with WWD’s Arthur Zaczkiewicz at Samsung 837about their parallel fashion journeys, beginning with POLIMODA, and how they continue to catapult their careers at #WWDStyleDimension.

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Click:martial arts uniform kungfu wushu ACTING OUT AGAINST FUR: Animal rights activists have recruited actress Pamela Anderson to lobby Prada to go fur free. Her support is being tagged onto an international effort against Prada Group that was started earlier this month and led by Fur Free Alliance. For what appears to be more of a personal appeal, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has enlisted Anderson. The “Baywatch” actress has penned a letter…

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TIME FOR A SECOND ACT: After a four-year hiatus, Nary Manivong is back on the scene with a direct-to-consumer signature collection. The designer decided to hit the reset button, even leaving New York for the better part of 2014, before returning. Interestingly, Manivong said he didn’t jump at the opportunity to start his own label when Handa Fashion’s Jack Shi presented the idea. The duo have known each other professionally for 10 years, but their partnership evolved over time. Not…

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PRESSING ON: Six months after the death of designer Amsale Aberra, the namesake company is moving forward with a new retail concept geared toward bridesmaids. Starting Sept. 24, bridal parties can schedule appointments at the Amsale creative studio in New York’s garment district. Shoppers will find The Bridal Party at Amsale. The direct-to-consumer approach will give customers a full range of colors, fabrications, sizes, silhouettes and styles of both the Amsale and Nouvelle Amsale Bridesmaids…

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