A number of pieces from the Fashion Institute of Technology archives will be on sale at Yoox.com beginning today, as the online retailer celebrates its partnership with FIT's current exhibition.
In addition to the sale, Yoox is hosting a virtual exhibition of "American Beauty: Aesthetics & Innovation in Fashion" which focuses on the convergence of technical dressmaking and the philosophy of beauty. Throughout a series of short videos, curator Patricia Mears takes viewers through specific pieces from the exhibit with interviews from Ralph Rucci, Nicolas Caito, Hamish Bowles, Yeohlee Teng, and Francisco Costa offering additional insights.
The curators spend three minutes breaking down the construction of a Halston dress—wearing white gloves—and muse on the difference of tailoring versus dressmaking. For fashion lovers and budding designers, the videos offer insights deeper than the typical designer interivew and into the real behind the scenes work that goes into constructing a garment.
We can hardly believe it's Friday already, given how productive our Network Partners have been...check out our picks from the Network this afternoon.
Chic & Untroubled gave her two cents on the Peaches Geldof for Nylon postings. That girl is far too young to be dying her hair.
Debutante Clothing reported on Yoox's newest e-commerce endeavor. Costume jewelry and curation details ensue...
There's a Rebecca Minkoff sample sale this weekend? Eye 4 Style is hitting the sale postings head on (whilst we bury our heads in denial).
The Bread And Butter put together a visually stimulating and enticing literary wish list that us feeling guilty that 90% of the things on our holiday list involve sequins.
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Rosamond Bernier, long a lecturer on arts and culture (most notably at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art) is presenting her private wardrobe on Yoox along with excerpts from her lectures, photographes from her personal collection, and a video interview. We had a chance to see a few pieces of her remarkable vintage collection at a showing at the Four Seasons Tuesday evening. The collection will go on sale sometime in October.
Matthew Williamson is leaving Pucci at the end of his three year contract. His replacement as creative director is Peter Dundas of Emanuel Ungaro.
Sigerson Morrison is collaborating with Pringle of Scotland. The soft but strong shapes in cream, grey and dusky pink will launch for Spring 2009
Liz Claiborne and Narcisco Rodriguez are at an impasse over the growth of the 15 million dollar niche designer label.
Italians are not scared of ecommerce anymore. Really! Milan's Politecnico University, called MIP, will inaugurate Italy's first master's degree program aimed at creating specialists in online fashion sales. Too bad the internships will happen at Yoox's Emporio Armani store. Usability may not be a core value of the program.
Its a good thing the Prada IPO has been pushed back as sticking to a core money making business has never been something at which the brand excells. And often to very positive effect. Prada's new art project with favored architect Remm Koohlhas? Its called Transformer, which will be unveiled in Seoul, South Korea, next year. Transformer is a tetrahedron structure in lieu of a theater that will accommodate cultural, artistic and fashion events Prada is organizing. If Prada has Koolhas and Chanel has Zaha Hadid which duelling fashion + architect team is the Autobots. And more importantly who are the Decepticons?
Iisli has a pop up store on Bond Street. Iceland Kisan is opening a boutique in Soho. Villa Moda has some serious bling in Bahrain. Good thing they now have the backing of the entire country of Dubai to get fancy. Also fast fashion may be out!
The rich keep getting richer even as America decides to be come a socialist country, thus Valentino’s accessories designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli are going to the ultimate luxury destination with a new couture handbag line. Shopping Couture is a line of bags with just one tote — served up in 10 variations.
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In choosing an economic system, Deng Xiaoping sady it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white so long as it catches mice. Apparently Chinese capitalism is catching a lot of mice as
Coach is betting it will grow to a $250 million dollar retail presence as it grows from 15 points of sale to over 50 in five years time.
Times may be tough but
we always go back to our favorite shoe brand.
Dolce and Gabbana plan to open 24 more stores next year.
Yet another shock,
rich people get frustrated when they can't buy expensive things online easily.
We like to think it is all of the discount Marni we purchase that is helping
Yoox get to its 2009 IPO.
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