Saks Global’s high-wire financial act is finally over. The company, which just over a year ago bought Neiman Marcus Group for $2.7 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late Tuesday — scrambling high-end retailing and leaving both vendors and lenders holding the bag. Saks Global went to court with $1.75 billion in financing from a…
Earlier this October, StyleWeekOC held its 14th annual event — merging together the worlds of fashion and cinema, in partnership with Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) for the second year in a row. After the success of last year, the two held a five-day series to highlight the intersection of fashion, film and design. Guests…
Louis Vuitton leather single-breasted jacket, $5,900, and flared pants, $4,700, long-sleeved button-down cotton shirt, $1,080, and LV Phriendship silk tie with Pharrell Williams’s and Nigo’s portraits in jacquard, $235, Louis Vuitton, 919 N. Michigan Ave. Gucci wool polo with rhinestone-embellished collar, $3,205, Reverie by Caroline Hu nylon tulle skirt, $800, and Undercover lamé socks, $50…
Keeping up its streak of attracting top-shelf talent, the Saint Louis Fashion Fund has lined up Carolina Herrera’s creative director Wes Gordon for its annual speaker series. The New York-based fashion designer will have plenty of insights and intel to share, and it will be a doubleheader so to speak. The program will start with…
Mestiza co-founders Alessandra Perez-Rubio and Louisa Rechter built their brand around heirloom style. Courtesy of Mestiza Two twenty-something women sit in a SoHo bar, dressed like they inherited a tasteful fortune. They’re not drafting a business plan yet, but they’re naming something—something plural, personal, with identity and intent. Mestiza. A woman of mixed blood. A…
BERLIN — There was something for everyone at this season’s four-day iteration of Berlin Fashion Week, which ended last Thursday. The offerings included ingenious ideas by recent graduates in specially curated shows; slick, smart presentations by homegrown talent like GmbH and Richert Beil, and the commercial savvy from the likes of Blumarine creative director David…
Beautiful, long-lasting and supports local harvesters — those are a few reasons why N.W.T. fashion designer D’Arcy Moses wants to incorporate fur knitting into his repertoire, and he’s travelled to Ontario to learn how. Moses, an artist from the Pehdzéh Kı̨ First Nation in Wrigley, N.W.T., is working under expert Paula Lishman around the Ottawa Valley. He says he…