Jennifer Lopez has plenty of hits to her own name, but she chose to cover Barbra Streisand for her “One World: Together At Home” performance. The 50-year-old multihyphenate sang Streisand’s “People” while wearing a Coach 1941 crewneck with the singer’s face on it. The sweatshirt can be purchased from Shopbop.com for $225. On Instagram, Lopez […]
Category: Fashion
Fashion Exhibitions Are Getting Extended, Postponed
Magnificent dresses are on display in museums, with no one to appreciate them due to closures in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. And so dates are in flux. On Friday, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris said its exhibition “Harper’s Bazaar — First in Fashion,” which opened during Paris Fashion Week last March, […]
Condé Nast to Cut Pay, Furlough Some Staffers
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to turn to cuts due to the coronavirus. To counter the plunge in advertising that is plaguing the industry, the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and Glamour told staffers Monday that it is cutting salaries of those making more than $100,000 by between 10 percent and 20 percent, […]
Harry Styles Releases T-Shirt Benefiting Coronavirus Relief Efforts
Harry Styles is joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The singer celebrated World Health Day on April 7th by releasing a graphic T-shirt that benefits COVID-19 relief efforts. The white T-shirt is inscribed with the message, “Stay Home. Stay Safe. Protect Each Other.” All proceeds from the $26 T-shirt will benefit the World Health […]
Hoka to Donate 5,000 Sneakers to Health-care Workers
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 Execs Take Salary Cuts to Help Keep Employees Paid During Coronavirus Crisis
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 […]
Dior Virtual Beauty Shop goes 3-D so you can shop their Paris store from your Living Room
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 […]
Social Distancing Hat Gains Popularity, Raises Funds Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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 […]
Celebrating the Life and Legend of Footwear Designer Sergio Rossi
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 […]
Coronavirus Doesn’t Deter Online Jewelry Auction Bids
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 […]