While the industry continues to question the importance of New York Fashion Week, Shanel Campbell, a 26-year-old Parsons graduate, believes the platform is still important. She will embark on her first fashion show on Sept. 5, a little bit ahead of the official start of fashion week, and here she outlines how she’s producing a show and what she hopes to achieve. This is the second story in a series that will follow Campbell as…
INSIDE FASHION: There’s always a spotlight on fashion at the Venice Film Festival, but this year, Francesco Carrozzini’s virtual reality film “X-Ray Fashion” will shift viewers’ gaze away from the red carpet to take a look at what’s wrong in the industry. “It’s not an accusation of fashion per se, but it’s a harsh exposé on the effects of some parts of it, such as fast fashion for example, on the environment and on people,…
ISSEY DOES GOOD: On Thursday, Issey Miyake revealed its latest retail venture: a store focused primarily on accessories selected from across the company’s various brands for both women and men. Good Goods Issey Miyake will open to the public on Saturday in the chic neighborhood of Daikanyama. The store’s interior was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, whose work also appears in such locales as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.…
SAN FRANCISCO — Forget hoodies and sneakers — Silicon Valley might just turn into the new “It” destination for designer fashions judging by Jeffrey’s long-awaited arrival in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednesday. The luxury retailer chose the area’s Stanford Shopping Center as the site of its first store in nearly two decades. “I shopped the center, and I saw no other store like ours,” said founder Jeffrey Kalinsky. “I love that it’s open air. I love…
SOUTH OF THE CITY: After a nine-year break from New York Fashion Week, Alabama Chanin will be back on the scene with a private showing Sept. 4 to Sept. 7 at the Bowery Hotel. The label’s namesake, Natalie Chanin, has been quietly building the sustainable-focused business in Florence, Ala. Committed to cultivating craftsmanship via the artisans and seamstresses that help to produce the collection, the company has been rooted in sustainable production for nearly 20…
The life and work of Michael Vollbracht will be celebrated Sept. 4 at a memorial at The New School’s Parsons School of Design. Iris Apfel, Bethann Hardison, Kay Unger, Joel Towers, Jeffrey Banks and Stan Herman will be among the 12 speakers who will pay tribute to the fashion designer and illustrator, who died in June at the age of 70. The event will start at 6 p.m. at the school’s auditorium at 66 West…
Click:Custom designer furnitures EAT YOUR SHIRT: Just in time for Bread & Butter by Zalando, which kicks off in Berlin today, Diesel is dishing up a surprisingly tasty new collaboration: Diesel x Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap. The vegetable kebab stand in the city’s Kreuzberg district is legendary for its long lines of aficionados, often young tourists coming direct from the airport and willing to wait 30 minutes and more for what they claim is the non-plus…
NOW FASHION: Kenzo is rejigging the format for its La Collection Memento collection rooted in pieces from the house’s archives. The brand’s spring 2019 La Collection Memento collection will be presented in March 2019 under a see-now-buy-now format. Skipping the upcoming Paris Fashion Week, the house will present the film for its fall 2018 main and La Collection Memento collections on Sept. 7 during New York Fashion Week. Titled “The Everything,” the film was written and…
FASHION FESTIVAL: The British Fashion Council is continuing to develop London Fashion Week Festival, a four-day consumer-facing event taking place after London Fashion Week, on Sept. 20 to 23. This year’s lineup, unveiled today, will see a series of runway shows by emerging British talent take place, alongside industry talks and shopping experiences. The aim of the event — which drew up to 14,000 people last year — is to re-create the atmosphere of LFW for…
MOTHER KNOWS BEST: The 26th annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares event at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta on Monday night raised more than $800,000 for Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta AIDS Fund and the Medical University of South Carolina. The tally since the event’s inception: more than $15 million raised for the beneficiaries. Jeffrey Kalinsky, who operates two stores in Manhattan and Atlanta, unveiled a third unit in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednesday. “It’s a 12-minute…