December 2011
Following a board meeting on Wednesday, Italy’s chamber said it accepted the proposal put forward in October by Diane von Furstenberg, president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, to begin New York Fashion Week on the second Thursday in September, starting in 2013.
November 2011
The Condé Nast title is collaborating with the new full-price men’s site from Gilt Groupe on a pop-up shop in New York’s Meatpacking District for the holidays.
Fifty cutting-edge pieces are showcased in “The Great Designers, Part One,” which debuted Tuesday at the Museum at FIT.
The dress that the late British signer wore on the cover of her 2006 album “Back to Black” fetched 43,200 pounds, or $70,440.
The new line, developed from Bare Escentuals’ proprietary mineral ingredient ActiveSoil Complex, consists of seven products. There are two cleansers, two nighttime serums and three moisturizers formulated for normal, dry and combination skin.
For pre-fall, Pringle of Scotland’s design director, Alistair Carr, riffed on motifs from the house’s history while still giving the looks a modern twist. His take on the famed twinset, for instance, was a wine-colored cardigan that fastens diagonally across the body, with diamanté buttons designed to resemble one Carr discovered in Pringle’s archives.