How does a new brand break into the industry and make a splash while balancing the ideals of sustainability? For young designers Catharine Dahm and Jacqueline Rabot, it means growing slow by developing made-to-order, smaller batch garments for their new contemporary brand, Rabôt. Pronounced “Rah-Beau,” the line aims to combat the industry’s issue of disposable […]
It’s rare for Aaron Walters, chairman and chief executive officer of the Maryville, Tenn.-based Altar’d State women’s fashion chain, to step out in a public kind of way. “We are very low-profile,” Walters acknowledged at Tuesday’s opening of Altar’d State’s first New York store in The Westchester mall in White Plains. Altar’d State’s second New […]
MILAN — Max Mara’s contemporary label Max & Co. has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Italian manufacturer Marcolin for the development, production and global distribution of its eyewear collections. The deal runs through 2024. The brand’s first eyewear collection under the partnership will bow in early 2020. Sunglasses and optical frames for the label, […]
Brooks Brothers can now dress entire families, from grandparents to toddlers, with the introduction of its infant collection. The American retailer launched the collection as gift sets at select stores and online, offering warm- and cold-weather wool, linen and cotton pieces made in Italy. The collection is composed of 10 box sets and five options […]
HERE COMES THE BRIDE: Wacky designer PZ Opassuksatit is renewing her collaboration with publisher Idea, releasing an imaginary wedding catalogue filled with crazy ideas and kitsch artwork in collaboration with friends including Virgil Abloh and Sarah Andelman. Like last year’s PZWorld issue — which included items like salad sliders — certain items from the PZWorld […]