MILAN — Moncler SpA closed 2019 with double-digit growth in all markets and distribution channels. In the 12 months ended Dec. 31, net profits were up 9 percent to 361.5 million euros, compared with 332.4 million euros a year earlier. Sales rose 15 percent to 1.62 billion euros compared with 1.42 billion euros in 2018. Revenues […]
Safilo has purchased a majority stake in the affordable eyewear brand, Privé Revaux, founded by David Schottenstein. The Italian company bought a 61 percent interest and Schottenstein and his celebrity partners, Jamie Foxx, Hailee Steinfeld and Ashley Benson, will retain 39 percent ownership. Schottenstein created Privé Revaux two and a half years ago as a fashionable alternative […]
As Hearst Magazines staffers are still awaiting a date to vote for their union, another media organization is already on its second contract. Following months of negotiations, news and opinion site The Huffington Post’s 125-strong union, which formed in 2016, just ratified its second collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America, East. This […]
A growing number of brands have begun opening doors to guest designers, but it is a practice that Frame says they’ve been using since its inception. The contemporary brand’s latest collaboration is with model Imaan Hammam, who told WWD she’d love to get going on a second collaboration as soon as possible. Erik Torstensson, cofounder of […]
THAT’S THE TICKET: “We’re very patriotic,” said Kyra Kennedy, wearing a red Chiara Boni La Petite Robe jumpsuit and standing beside her cousin Cara Kennedy Cuomo in a blue one, before the label’s Saturday night show. While Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary will ramp up political conversations nationwide, the Kennedy kin are accustomed to unsolicited election-related […]