Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch will take the creative director position at Rosa Cha.
Hilfiger and Hogan both launched downtown insider-y ad campaigns, leaving some audiences perplexed.
Move over Sienna, Leigh Lezark could be Matthew Williamson's newest muse.
Agyness Deyn is the new face of Uniqlo's high summer sports campaign.
Net-a-Porter's off-price e-commerce venture, The Outnet, launched this morning. ..
Rachel Roy has designed a diffusion line for Macy's, called Rachel Rachel Roy, poised to debut this fall.
Uniqlo has announced that it will launch an online store in China with the help of China's e-commerce giant Taobao.
The New York Times asserts that the next must-have lifestyle item is an expensive dutch bicycle.
Scott Campbell, who gave Marc Jacobs his tattoos, will be the resident tattoo artist at a new concept shop opened by Carlos Quirarte of Earnest Sewn.
Jil Sander is not only designing an exclusive range for Uniqlo, she's also taking over as head of men's and women's wear.
E-commerce giant, Shopbop, launched into a new video series using a buyer as the narrator of spring's hottest denim options.
In case you aren't one of the thousand-odd people to become friends with Marc Jacobs on Facebook, you can still read his thoughts.
The CFDA nominations have been announced and Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, and Rodarte are nominated for 2009 Womenswear Designer Of The Year.
Yesterday we pointed out a video interview with Pierre Hardy and it seems there is another to add to that list, today NYMag runs a piece with Karl Lagerfeld.
It has been announced that Alber Elbaz has tapped Nicholas Kirkwood to design the footwear for Lanvin, the partnership will begin next season.
The designer Jil Sander--not the fashion house--is slated to design an upcoming capsule collection for mass market retailer, Uniqlo.
Opening Ceremony, Steven Alan, Shipley & Halmos, and Gilded Age will all produce Spring 2009 capsule collections for Uniqlo...
Details emerge--including who wants to talk and who doesn't--on Karl Templer and Fabien Baron's departure from Interview magazine.
Pierre Berge, former partner of Yves Saint Laurent, has some unkind words for Cavalli, Versace, and the fashion industry at large.
Diane Von Furstenberg will design ten rooms at Claridge's; the five star art deco hotel located in the Mayfair district of London.
If you happen to be in New York this week, Uniqlo is cheering everyone up with some human vending machines and free fashion. The rendering at left is meant to illustrate the arrangements, and NY Mag has the particulars, but we're still guessing you're going to have to see it to believe it. This global event has been set up to promote Uniqlo's new line of 'innerwear' called Heat Tech. Heat Tech garments are made from high-tech fibers that convert body moisture into heat--keeping you warm and (listen up fashionistas) bulk-free. Just when the world felt like a cold, lonely place--Uniqlo appears in Times Square with a Michel Gondry-like promotion and manages to warm our hearts.
Forbes journalist Lauren Sherman wrote an interesting piece on the buying power of hipsters as seen by the booming sales of Urban Outfitters and the attendance of certain Fashion Week happenings. It's bit jumbled to us, the fact that trendsetters are described as those wearing stovepipe jeans and flannels and then everyone from Jefferson Hack to a person who shops at Urban Outfitters a la the mall are included in this grouping. But the point is that the young, left-of-center fashion kids want to spend money on clothing because being different all the time means shopping often.
New York Mag is the closest we come to any kind of celebrity-centered journalism and this morning there's some instant gratification on the front page. Someone put together a slideshow of Anna Wintour's possible successors and it's a whopping six slides long. We're not suggesting that there are more out there, but six slides isn't going to add up to a ton of pageviews which is why, we assume, the darn thing was created in the first place. Anyway...speaking of Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld there's a New York versus Paris exhibit uptown.
Uniqlo's Japan sales are up by a whopping 20 percent for the month of September. The Japanese retail climate is just as stifled as all of those Western brick and mortars but the company attributes the jump to an early drop in temperatures and their aggressive advertising strategies. We think a brand like Uniqlo is just the kind of place people shop when they've stopped consuming from other retailers, but yeah, maybe it's just the change in weather.
As far as Great Britain mass market retailers go, Vogue has taken a moment to lament their continued decline. Most significant is that of Miss Sixty who is facing a hefty and unmanageable debt to their Italian parent company.
If you're in London, take a tip from Fashion Indie and stop by the unveiling of Uniqlo's UT Gallery. Its location, Shorditch's Old Truman Brewery, is where you will be able to see some 200 portraits of their UT Project tees, styled by Nicola Formichetti and photographed by Matt Irwin (not to mention mow down on some serious outdoor burgers and fries). The portraits feature models, artists, and designers (and other brands of hipster) culled from London to New York to cyberspace. Fashion Indie's Daniel Saynt questions the artistic merit of such an exhibition, wondering whether it's truly art, or just a clever marketing scheme. These days, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference.
Prepare for total chaos. The highly anticipated guest collection by Alexander Wang for Uniqlo is poised to hit stores by the end of May. Pictures of the collection have started to circulate, so expect a building sense of consumer anxiety over the next two months. As big business and hot designer collaborations go, this one is about as brilliant as Kate Moss for Topshop. That is, many of Wang's fans are those more likely to recreate his aesthetic with thrift store finds, given the retail price. It's a safe bet, then, that Wang's collection for the Japanese retail chain will sell out immediately. With eight exclusive looks priced between $29 and $79 dollars, Wang fans will have access to this sliver of fashion history, just as long as they're able to wait in line.
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