The top ten countries by estimated 2013 retail sales place the United States in first place followed by China and Japan. ..
A price list has been leaked for the Gap Design Editions collaboration with Alexander Wang, Vena Cava and Albertus Swanepoel.
Diesel will open its first restaurant in Milan today, and plans to open other eateries in New York and Braganze, Italy.
Derek Lam's first stand-alone boutique, just opened in SoHo, will also soon serve as his atelier.
10,000 Fiat models have been produced in collaboration with contemporary brand Diesel, and are available in Europe in Japan starting this month. The collaboration aims to encourage the notion of lifestyle from the perspective of both brands, in addition to strengthening the notion of 'Italian' design from a global perspective. President of Diesel, Renzo Rosso said of the collaboration, "The car Fiat 500 symbolizes the way I would like it always to be: creative, passionate, cheerful; which is why the first car by Diesel could have only been a Fiat 500!". Note the distinction, 'first' in his statement. The special edition car features Diesel logos on everything from hubcaps to hood and details such as yellow stitching on the seats and steering wheel, meant to mimic the look of denim.
We should have known better than to schedule both the Philharmonic and Diesel's XXX Rock and Roll circus on the same night but being big fans of both Dvorak and Marin Alsop we couldn't help ourselves. Your editor was celebrating her own birthday with a trip the New York Philharmonic's Dvorak's New World Symphony and made the silly assumption that arriving an hour or so after the start of the Diesel party would be no problem at press check in. Heck, we actually expected it would make our lives easier. Good reader we were wrong.
After a series of confusing conversations with the front of house publicity team (though that term might be a little strong as it was more like a passle of overwhelmed young women being pushed around by angry security guards) an entire cadre of press were turned away at 10:30 when we were informed that no more attendees would be allowed into the venue.
This decision was not made with much joy as we heard a fellow editor grump "they drag us all the way to the middle of nowhere and then can't even be bothered to let us do our jobs?" But we think the writer in front of us had the right idea when he said "ten years ago I would have been irritated but now I am just as happy to go home, order take out and watch Tivo'd episodes of Little Britain."
As your editors walked to Dumbo to catch a ride home we saw two girls dressed to the nines whooping and high fiving as they got past the first security check point. "I can't believe we are here," squealed one of the girls. We didn't have the heart to tell them "here" was as far as they were going to get. Thankfully cameramen made it in so while we were at home watching South Park others were doing the hard work of bringing you images. As part of our new lifestyle section coverage we present them to you.
Diesel 30th anniversary celebration 'Rock and Roll Circus' at Pier 3, Brooklyn Waterfront on October 11. Images by Roger Kisby via Getty. Renzo Rosso, Alessia Rosso, Roberto Cavalli, Richie Rich, Hot Chip, Lindsay Lohan, Joey Arias, Corey Kennedy, Peaches Geldof, and Max Drummey.
The excitement over Diesel's 30th Anniversary party has reached a fever pitch for the fashion media as it would appear that Diesel oriented subjects are literally all anyone can talk about including us.
Renzo Rosso is hosting 17 parties in eight time zones for Diesel's 30th Anniversary — from Tokyo to New York via the likes of Dubai, Zurich, Munich and Oslo — all on Saturday night. We personally are looking forward to the New York party because it is our 25th and it happens to be in Brooklyn.
In addition, Diesel will be selling limited edition 'Dirty Thirty' jeans, which would normally sell for around £200 but the company has dropped the price tag to just £30. Alas even jeans pricing is no longer in dollars.
In other Diesel news WWD has a feature on its unique approach to retailing which differentiates each store to its market making the shopping experience more personal and more culturally appropriate.
And finally, Diesel is publishing “XXX Years of Diesel Communication” a retrospective on their controversial advertising campaigns through the years. But the best tidbit? “My dream is to do a soap opera for the Internet, our very own ‘Dallas’ in the Diesel spirit, in a modern and fresh way,” said Rosso.
Balenciaga has signed a deal with Coty Inc.’s Coty Prestige division to create, develop and distribute fragrance lines under the Balenciaga nameplate. The first fragrance is tentatively slated for a spring 2010 launch.
Shoppers are poor at math J.C Penney's has concluded, doing away with tiered discount systems such as "take another 30% at the register."
On Tuesday we visited Coterie's eveningwear selections for fresh runway looks but most of the action was taking place in the contemporary market over on the Piers. Buyers worked themselves into a frenzy over collections from Tracey Reese, Velvet, Geren Ford, Inhabit, Shin Choi, Marc Bouer Glamit, Cynthia Steffe, Twinkle, Betsy Johnson, Harlan Bel, Nieves Lavi, Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, Anna Sui, Nanette Lepore, Citizens of Humanity, Seven for All Mankind, Foley and Corinna, Julie Haus, Erotokritos, Nicole Miller, Vera Wang Lavender, Tibi, Shoshanna, Alice and Olivia, Rag and Bone, Diane Von Furstenberg, Earnest Sewn, Adam by Adam Lippes, Diesel, Milly by Michelle Smith, Helmut Lang, Iodice, and Sunner.
Vogue India is at the center of a controversy that would make even a 20th century colonialist blush. Vogue India’s August 16-page accessories story of handbags, clutches and designer umbrellas, were modeled by average Indian people. Some 456 million Indians live on less than $1.25 a day making $200 Burberry umbrellas in huts a little offensive to more than a few people.
Halston is unlikely to hire a marquee name, instead focusing on an internal design team. Anyone curious about this spring collection should not that it was apparently conceived by Marco Zanini before the departure.
Diesel likes to party. A lot!
Coutorture favorite Oscar De La Renta has relaunched ecommerce. The site, designed by habitual enemies of usability and FLASH addicts Createthe Group, is similar in feel to the recently launched Calvin Klein ecommerce site (also a CreateThe project) giving us hope that perhaps a new era of selling products and showcasing information instead of pretending to recreate (and miserably) a store experience. But we trusted that CEO Alex Bolen wouldn't have it any other way. Heck, he even has Oscar guest blogging these days. 
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