insert_link Fashion LeBron James and Travis Scott Team Up for Class of 2020 Shirts The graduating classes of 2020 are getting a special treat from basketball great LeBron James and rapper Travis Scott. James’ Uninterrupted platform and Scott’s Cactus Jack label have collaborated on a 2020 Graduation T-shirt, designed by Scott. The shirt bears both Uninterrupted and Cactus Jack logos and the handwritten phrase “We’re all in this together.” The collab is available for just 72 hours, which started Friday at 3 p.m. […] todayMay 18, 2020
insert_link Fashion Jeremy Lin is the new face of Coach’s Men’s Business Coach is repositioning its China strategy by appointing American-born Chinese basketball player Jeremy Lin its second men’s wear ambassador, after Michael B. Jordan. “In 11 years as a pro, I have never ever done high-end fashion, but when presented with the chance to join the Coach family, I had to jump on it. Classy, refined, relational, dream-oriented and philanthropic. I’m ready to go into unchartered territory. Looking forward to collaborating […] todayMay 15, 2020
insert_link Fashion Kohl’s, Snapchat Team Up on an Easy Way to Shop for Athleisure Gear Department store chain Kohl’s teamed up with Snapchat on an augmented reality virtual closet earlier this spring, enabling Snapchatters to browse clothes from home via the messaging application. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the inventory in that virtual closet pivoted to athleisure items for the many people working from home. Snapchat’s AR Portal technology enables users to virtually browse a selection of Kohl’s athleisure products, and the app’s shoppable AR technology enables them […] todayMay 14, 2020
insert_link Fashion Now the fashion world is getting in on the Animal Crossing: New Horizons action Animal Crossing: New Horizons has, largely by virtue of being exactly the right form of escapism at exactly the right time, become something of a cultural phenomenon as players use it to live out some semblance of a surrogate existence during lockdown. It's been used to build capitalist empires, to host weddings, birthdays, romantic dinners, even protests. And as it's gone mainstream, everyone wants in on the action: be they […] todayMay 14, 2020
insert_link Fashion Norma Kamali to Be Featured Speaker Tuesday at Free FIT Series Norma Kamali will be the featured speaker May 12 at the Fashion Institute of Technology's (FIT) Hue Live, a twice weekly series of conversations featuring people and stories that define FIT. Alex Joseph, managing editor of Hue, FIT’s magazine, will host Kamali for the one-hour conversation at 5:30 p.m. Joseph conducts interviews with some of the college’s leading alumni across a range of industries. A graduate of FIT with a […] todayMay 11, 2020
insert_link Fashion Vanna White, Bob Mackie Team Up for ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Collection Viewers of beloved game show “Wheel of Fortune” may have noticed co-host Vanna White is looking particularly glam this week. The letter spinner has been modeling Bob Mackie archival gowns to help promote a new “Wheel of Fortune” collection by the designer available at shopwheeloffortune.com. “I have been watching ‘Wheel’ and ‘Jeopardy’ since the Eighties. They are part of American life. Some nights I get all the answers and some […] todayMay 7, 2020
insert_link Fashion Virtual Consultations Are Paying Off for Beauty Brands Across the Internet, aestheticians, makeup artists, hair stylists and beauty educators are holding consultations, classes and beauty confabs. And while the explosion in online activity was born out of necessity from the coronavirus pandemic, the popularity of such events — including a boost in sales and increased conversion rates — means most brands will continue doing them in a post-crisis world. Gretchen Saegh-Fleming, chief marketing officer of L’Oréal USA, said […] todayMay 6, 2020
insert_link Fashion This year’s Met Gala goes Virtual – and Everyone’s Invited The first Monday in May was supposed to be a pinnacle day and night in the world of fashion with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiling its exhibition and fans flocking to see arrivals for the annual celebrity-studded Met Gala. While the pandemic-induced shutdown has caused the actual gala to shift to a date of to-be-determined, all is not lost. With the Fifth Avenue museum […] todayMay 5, 2020
insert_link Fashion Could Carine Roitfeld’s Virtual amfAR Charity Fashion Show Be a Blueprint for Future Fashion Weeks? There were no Hadids or Jenners, but there were dozens of models strutting their stuff in well-appointed kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and gardens during designer Carine Roitfeld’s half-hour “CR Runway Fashion Unites” show streamed on YouTube on May 1st. (“Who’s looking at the houses rather than the models?” joked one commenter, touching on a new aesthetics reality of the quarantine era.) “This is supermodels supporting superheroes,” said Derek Blasberg, head […] todayMay 4, 2020