After the success of his New York-based pop-up museum, “Arcadia Earth,” designed to raise awareness for sustainability and circular design, founder Valentino Vettori is extending the lease till the end of 2020 and taking it to Los Angeles next. An experienced retail designer by trade, Vettori tapped nonprofits the World Wildlife Foundation, Oceanic Global and […]
The list of 2020 Golden Globe nominees was released Monday morning, putting Netflix ahead of the pack in both television and film with 34 total nominations. Nominations for the 77th annual awards ceremony, which takes place on Jan. 5, show Netflix’s newly released films “Marriage Story” and “The Irishman” leading with the most nominations for […]
As the VSCO girl meme gained popularity across high schools earlier this fall, brands, marketers and the media tried to figure out not only how this Generation Z subculture evolved, but also ways to make money from them. For the uninitiated, the social media meme spotlights teenage girls who don oversize T-shirts, use environmentally friendly […]
[contact-form] Investment app Otis has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Maveron, the venture capital firm that invested in companies such as eBay, Zulily and Allbirds, among others. Additional investors include Union Square Ventures, NextView Ventures, Kindred Ventures, and Will Smith’s investment fund Dreamers. Founded by Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Otis is […]
As Art Basel heads into the weekend, the VIP crowd tends to thin out. But as an upside for the brands hosting later-in-the-week events, there’s also less competition. On Friday night, Violet Chachki gathered a lively group at the newly opened Gitano at Casa Faena for a dinner celebrating her newly released fragrance, Dirty Violet. […]
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. […]