Hoka One One is donating 5,000 pairs of its heavily cushioned shoes to health-care workers across the country. The retailers that sell the brand’s shoes will identify the doctors, nurses and other health-care employees in their communities to whom the sneakers will be distributed. To launch the program, Hoka has partnered with JackRabbit, a New […]
Lululemon’s top executives are pitching in to help employees facing coronavirus-related hardships. In a release yesterday, the athletic apparel retailer announced that members of its senior leadership team will see 20% reductions in their salaries for the next three months, while board directors will also forgo their retainers. This cash reservoir, it shared, would go […]
Paris, as the saying goes, is always a good idea. Although perhaps not when the European city is in the midst of a lockdown owing to a global pandemic. But the beauty – and retail therapy – of the French capital is now being offered to the world virtually, thanks to one of its most […]
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a number of fashion brands are pitching in to help with COVID-19 relief efforts, including a few new entrants that are leveraging the global crisis to do some good. Enter “Social Distancing Hat,” a fund-raising initiative launched two weeks ago that’s giving a nod to the now well-known phrase experts have […]
Italy is rife with talented designers and shoemakers — but even among the best of the best, Sergio Rossi’s legacy looms large. The designer, who built one of Italy’s most storied luxury shoe brands and inspired generations of designers, died last week in Cesena, Italy, at age 84. The cause of death was coronavirus; he […]
Sotheby’s logged one of its most successful jewelry auctions ever this week amid global coronavirus lockdowns. The auction house marked its best sell-through for an online jewelry sale, selling 97 percent of lots from its Jewels Online auction that wrapped last week. The sale realized a total $739,375, far surpassing its highest total estimate of […]
After several coed experiments, Milan’s Women’s Fashion Week in September will become the first season that will combine men’s and women’s collections. Italy’s Camera Nazionale della Moda said Friday evening that the spring 2021 men’s shows and presentations slated for June 19 to 23 will run in September during Milan Women’s Fashion Week, which is […]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at his daily coronavirus press briefing on Thursday night unveiled a partnership with clothing brand Reformation to organize the city’s garment manufacturers to make protective masks. The L.A. Protects initiative will leverage the city’s manufacturing facilities and garment workers not to make the medical-grade N95 masks so desperately needed by […]
COVID-19 has affected the clothing rental market. While Rent the Runway will still conduct business as usual online, the company sent an email out to its customers this weekend to announce the temporary closures of all of its brick-and-mortar locations. Rent the Runway’s retail stores closed at the end of business on March 15, […]
Over the weekend, designer Giorgio Armani took a full page ad in more than 60 newspapers in Italy, writing a letter to all of the healthcare providers strenuously fighting the coronavirus outbreak. The list includes major dailies from Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Il Giornale and Il Sole 24 Ore to sports newspapers […]