Big Daddy Clothing has a new parent company in Panda Apparel Group. The acquisition was completed Monday for an undisclosed amount. Under Panda Apparel Group, Big Daddy will wholesale graphic apparel and accessories as well as a big and tall collection. The brand currently offers graphic T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies, snapbacks, dad caps and beanies […]
Group Nine, fresh off a new $50 million round of funding, decided to add to its portfolio of brands. The media company, which already operates sites such as Thrillist and NowThis, acquired PopSugar, a web site that offers fashion and celebrity coverage aimed at women, but also shopping and extensive branding and licensing efforts of […]
LONDON — Gabriele Maggio has been named chief executive officer of Stella McCartney as the brand begins its new partnership with minority owner LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, WWD has learned. Maggio was most recently general manager of Moschino, and left that company last month. He previously held several senior executive and board level positions […]
Holubar has a long history and yet is virtually unknown in the American market today. But former Woolrich executive Patrick Nebiolo is out to change that. The mountaineering brand can trace its roots back to 1946 when Alice and Roy Holubar introduced the first lightweight down sleeping bags made from nylon fabric. They later expanded […]
For years, the manual process of collaborating with clients and designing custom jewelry might as well have been set in stone. But Pietra, a start-up from ex-Uber and Moda Operandi veterans and funded by the likes of Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr. and others, wants to change all of that. On Monday, the company launched […]