Month: December 2019

Alvin Valley Pops Into The Westchester

Alvin Valley, who has developed a following for his tailored pants, is popping into The Westchester Mall from Thursday through the end of February. Valley has teamed with Guesst to help locate and manage properties for his brand across the U.S. Guesst’s technology platform is built around pop-share, a solution to expensive, labor-heavy pop-up stores. […]

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Beatles Pop-up Gets Warm Welcome in SoHo

With a Beatles soundtrack playing solid hits throughout the evening, partygoers came out Tuesday night to get the first glimpse of The Beatles pop-up at 163 Mercer Street in New York. It is the first of its kind in the country, opens today and features several interactive elements. “It’s amazing. They did a great job,” […]

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K-pop and No.5 With Chanel in the Snow

It’s going to be hard attending holiday parties moving forward that do not feature the following: a Chanel-adorned ice skating rink, ornament decorating and postcard-writing stations, oversize goblets of chocolate mousse for communal scooping and, oh yeah, a performance by a K-pop band that had the festive fashionistas giddily bopping along as if they were […]

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The Future Lies in Start-ups, Personalization and Reinvention, Says José Neves

LONDON — “No one knows what the future will look like, so we will have to reinvent ourselves,” said Farfetch founder and chief executive officer José Neves, who thinks that every successful company should stay agile and ready to evolve every five years. “You look at Facebook, you look at Google, at Amazon. What they […]

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Safilo Sees 700 Jobs at Risk, Revises Sales, Margins Forecasts

MILAN — It will be a dour Christmas for 700 Safilo employees. The Italian eyewear group revealed its 2020-24 business plan on Tuesday evening, which identified approximately 700 redundancies next year in Italy, to “safeguard the Group’s competitiveness in favor of the workers who will remain in force.” Chief executive officer Angelo Trocchia said Safilo […]

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Amy Schumer Lights Up the Stellabration

The holidays are for Stellabrating. On Monday night, Stella McCartney hosted her annual holiday celebration at her Greene Street boutique in New York. Kate Hudson, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld, Amber Valletta, David Byrne, Jimmy Fallon (who showed up in a Beatles vest), Kyle Mooney and Brooklynn Prince — by far the evening’s youngest […]

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The $120,000 Art Banana Gets the Meme Treatment

The biggest news to come out of Art Basel in Miami Beach 2019 was undoubtedly the $120,000 “art banana.” The work of art-gone-viral, titled “Comedian” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is comprised of a real banana affixed to a wall with a piece of duct tape. Created in a limited edition of three, the work […]

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Ted Baker Shares Slide Amid Profit Warning, Board Shakeup

LONDON — Ted Baker’s share price closed down 13.4 percent on Tuesday after the high-street brand issued its third profit warning this year and announced a major board shakeup following an investigation into irregularities on its balance sheet. The share price, which deteriorated throughout the day, closed at 3.46 pounds. The brand, which saw its […]

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Complex Enters E-commerce With Complex Shop

Complex is getting into the retail business. The company on Monday launched Complex Shop, an e-commerce and content destination offering more than 60 brands for men and women such as Nike, Adidas, Comme des Garçons, Maison Margiela, Off-White, Heron Preston, Rhude, Stone Island, Arc’teryx, Visvim and Aimé Leon Dore, among others. Complex Shop highlights brands […]

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Here’s How Celebs Reacted to Their 2020 Golden Globe Nominations

The 2020 Golden Globe nominations were revealed Monday morning, and celebrities were quick to share their reactions on social media. The 77th annual Golden Globes, which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 5, are recognizing a wide breadth of projects — including 34 total nominations going to Netflix’s TV shows and films, like “Marriage Story” […]

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