A celebration of life is often code for “not a funeral,” but the one held Thursday for Columbia Sportswear’s former chairman Gert Boyle appeared to live up to its billing. Several thousand people – friends, former colleagues, business associates and admirers – turned out for the two-hour tribute at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, […]
Gucci America Inc. wants to send a message. The oft-imitated designer brand sued more than three dozen web sites it accused of selling knock-off shoes, accessories and clothes, and of appropriating its brand name. The web sites siphon off customer traffic from Gucci and essentially operate as part of a black market network for fake […]
Despite spending more than $400 million last year to fight fakes in its e-commerce platform, Amazon still seems beleaguered by its counterfeit conundrum. The issue has become impossible to ignore, certainly for the company, which admitted the problem for the first time in February. But instead of mitigating matters, the months since have brought a […]
Singer-songwriter Mikaela Mullaney Straus, better known as King Princess, was in high school when she was treated to her first pair of Christian Louboutin soles. It was courtesy of her stepfather, who’s a friend of the French designer’s, and the occasion was her senior prom. “He brought me to the store, and they just treated […]
For much of the European designer crowd, the trip to Miami for Art Basel has been in-and-out (see Alessandro Michele, Daniel Lee) and it was no different for Berluti’s Kris Van Assche. “Twenty-hour flight for 24 hours in Miami,” Van Assche said Thursday evening from the rooftop above the Berluti boutique in the Design District. […]