insert_link Fashion Gucci North America Changemakers Scholars Revealed Gucci has unveiled the 2020 class of Gucci North America Changemakers Scholars. The 20 recipients come from diverse backgrounds and are pursuing various careers within fashion at undergraduate colleges or universities. They will receive an academic scholarship for up to $20,000, in addition to mentorship and virtual internship opportunities through Gucci America. But the money awarded last week is just the start. Over the course of the next four years, […] todayJune 19, 2020
insert_link Fashion Hudson’s Bay joins growing list of Fashion Brands on Animal Crossing Much like Tiger King, baking banana bread and sharing your workout online, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing has become synonymous with our new socially distanced lives. The game has existed for more than 20 years, though the fifth installment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, was released on March 20 of this year right as lockdown measures went into place across most of the globe. To date, it has more than 11 million users. The fashion […] todayJune 3, 2020
insert_link Fashion Just as they try to reopen, L.A. Protests force beleaguered luxury retail stores to shut down As thousands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer moved westward in Los Angeles, luxury retail started to board up in fear of riots and looting. The entirety of famed luxury shopping strip Rodeo Drive was blocked to traffic by early afternoon on Saturday, as protestors were still miles to the east. The Beverly Center, a mall in West Hollywood that houses a number […] todayJune 1, 2020
insert_link Fashion Gucci goes seasonless and bids adieu to Fashion Week Fashion week is over, according to Gucci. In a virtual press conference broadcast from his Rome studio, the label’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, announced that Gucci was slashing the number of fashion shows it holds each year from five to two. Declaring the fashion week calendar obsolete, Michele said he was no longer adhering to a rota staked out by spring/summer, autumn/winter, cruise and pre-fall shows. “I think these are […] todayMay 26, 2020
insert_link Fashion Gucci Unveils “No Space Just a Place” Exhibit in Seoul “No Space, Just A Place” is a large-scale exhibition organized in Seoul’s Daelim Museum that showcases the work of 10 independent art spaces together with artwork from Korean and international artists. Organized by Gucci, the project is inspired by Italian fashion designer Alessandro Michele’s reflections on eterotopia and proposes a new definition of what an “other space” might be. “No Space, Just A Place” gives radical venues visibility and explores […] todayMay 20, 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
insert_link Fashion Gucci’s ArtLab Reopens Ahead of End of Lockdown Kering’s fashion powerhouse Gucci says it is reopening prototype activities at one of its main Italian sites after reaching a deal with unions on health and safety measures for workers. Most businesses and production sites have been shut across Italy under a lockdown imposed by the government in March due to the coronavirus emergency. Tough restrictions on movement and the closure of many economic activities will remain in place until […] todayApril 23, 2020
insert_link Fashion L.A. Mayor, Reformation Partner to Organize Garment Manufacturers to Make Protective Clothing 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 health-care workers, but rather protective masks for other essential workers on the front lines, including […] todayMarch 31, 2020
insert_link Fashion Designer Christian Siriano offers his Sewing Team to make Masks in response to N.Y. Gov. Cuomo’s call for help Designer Christian Siriano’s high-end looks are more common on runways than in hospital operating rooms, but that could be about to change, at least temporarily, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Siriano volunteered his team to make masks, in response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s call for help from the public. Cuomo described his state’s “critical need” for gloves, gowns and masks. He seemed desperate for help, explaining […] todayMarch 23, 2020
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