Last week, Crocs announced that it would buy privately owned footwear label Heydude for $2.5 billion, as the rubber clogs maker looks to cash in on the pandemic-led surge in demand for casual shoes. Consumers stuck at home during the lockdowns last year ditched dress shoes for more comfortable footwear, benefiting companies such as Crocs […]
Alexis Bittar is back, baby, and better than ever. The acclaimed jewlery designer has returned from a self-imposed five-year absence from the fashion world to reclaim his namesake brand from Brooks Brothers, who bought his brand in 2015, but filed for bankruptcy in 2021. Bittar’s road in fashion has been long and winding. According to […]
WWD reports that Vetements forgot to mention something when it unveiled its fall 2022 collection late last month: It can be credited to Guram Gvasalia, who has now officially been named creative director of the Zurich-based fashion house. Cofounder of the brand, Gvasalia has been the chief executive officer since its inception, having forged strong […]
Former longtime Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing is moving onto his next big project. Downing has joined publisher Hearst as its chief brand officer to oversee the vision, creation and marketing strategy for a new fashion magazine e-commerce venture called The Tower. The editor-infused digital shopping platform will begin launching next spring and will […]
Kerby Jean-Raymond has spent the last year and a half working on a secret project to bolster the next generation of Black designers. In early 2020, the founder and designer of Pyer Moss approached the luxury fashion conglomerate Kering with a plan to create a talent incubator which would shape emerging, outside-the-establishment labels into profitable businesses, and thus Your […]
In comparison to London, New York, or Paris, we don’t hear much about Milan’s emerging designers. The infrastructure of the Italian fashion industry has never been the most accommodating of nesting grounds but it’s also hard to see past the bright lights generated by Versace, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Gucci, and Valentino. Still, there are plenty of burgeoning labels worthy of distinction, including Vitelli, Adriana […]
As temperatures drop and days become shorter, as the leaves on the trees turn golden and fall to the ground, as frost sparkles and the wind whistles, hot girl summer transitions into cold ass winter. Quite literally, if Rihanna has it her way. The newly crowned “national hero of Barbados” has sparked some questions after releasing a […]
Last week, Edward Enninful announced on his Instagram page that his memoir, “A Visible Man,” will be coming in September 2022. Edward Enninful is the European editorial director of Vogue and editor-in-chief of British Vogue, taking the helm of the magazine on August 1, 2017. In just over two years as editor-in-chief of the famed publication, he helped shape […]
Despite Pantone selecting two Colors of the Year for 2021, we didn’t see much of either over the last 12 months. The messaging behind the hues — a bright, sunshine yellow meant to symbolize optimism and a classic, grounding gray that hinted at dependability — was in line with our collective need for hope and strength. But it […]
Nothing gets at the breadth of the topics, questions and figures that were on our minds any given year than Google’s annual ranking of top trending searches, which covers everything from news to celebrities to the questions big and small we type into our browsers in a quest for answers — how to style, how to pronounce, how […]