Results tagged “Goyard” (8)

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Junk in a Goyard Trunk

goyard trunk revolve.jpgRevolveClothing.com might have found the best way to stay afloat this season - sell something no one else has.

They lauched “The List” at midnight last night and they’ll be featuring one-of-a-kind, super exclusive limited edition objects and art.

To start, they’re offering a custom made white Goyard trunk with black and red racing stripes across the top. The trunk is filled with one hundred Assouline photography books on fashion, design and architecture and biographies on houses like Chanel and Lanvin.

Revolve will add equally ridiculous and cool one-offs every few weeks.

Meanwhile, the trunk can be yours for $20,000. In which case we’d suggest removing the books and living inside.

Fashion Is Fun

Simon & Julie Hawk Their Wares

Bet you didn’t think anything could beat last year’s Barneys Christmas video - but leave it to Julie and Simon to get you into the goofiest holiday spirit.

They’re celebrating all counter-cultures this season, a Barneys Hippie Holiday, and have a plethora of gifts they think your loved ones need - like Jonathan Adler candles (ahem), peace sign-embossed Goyard bags, “re-birthed” Loomstate t-shirts and a Henry Cuir bag that’s “even made by a hippie.”

And in case you, like Simon, think the phrase “dans tes bras” means “in your bra,” Julie clears it up.

Oh, also, they pretend to smoke pot - so obviously, you should watch it.

Explain

Sharing is Caring (With Your Clothes?)

yurman_daria-werbowy_004.jpgThe other day, my mother told me about this book called The Necklace, which follows the story of thirteen women who buy a diamond necklace to share - they couldn’t afford it individually - and find that their perception of value and luxury changes drastically.

The concept is provocative; enjoying the glamour and fun of a diamond necklace at a drastically lower price, and bonding in the process. Sign me up.

I think it would be amazing to go in with your best friends on something like Goyard Luggage, or a Rick Owens fur, or a Nina Ricci gown. In short, something super expensive that you wouldn’t use everyday, and thus wouldn’t miss.

But Natalie went straight to the practicality factor: What if one person loses it? Or breaks it? Or you all want to use it at the same time?

But realistically, just like a timeshare, if someone did lose the item then I suppose they would be responsible to pay everyone back, just like if you borrowed anything from your friend and broke it. Here at least, you have the innate trust that it belongs to you all.

Plus, there’s the fun factor, as Britt called it, a sort of “sisterhood of the traveling necklace”. But she also thinks it complicates what should be a very simple process - getting dressed - with issues like timing, calling, e-mailing, texting, etc, which adds too much time to something that may already take some people half the morning.

This all seems very green, and fun and exciting to me (not to mention a potentially genius solution to everyone’s dwindling shopping funds), but what about you guys?

Could you deal with part ownership of a bracelet the same way you could for a private jet?

—BRETT KANE

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Barneys’ Beijing Brouhaha

barneys new york goes barneys beijing maybe.jpgThe Post devotes some serious space to Barneys’ possible Beijing expansion today.

Basically, according to sources, the store might be looking to grow in China, as well as Dubai and Macau, even though their previous stateside expansions (Boston, Dallas, Vegas) have been less than well-received - not to mention they can’t hang on to that Meatpacking District location.

And despite the fact that China’s rife with competition, including the almost perfect Lane Crawford, and that Barneys is totally unfamiliar with the Chinese luxury market and still lacks a CEO, they’re going ahead and talking to architects and looking at sites on the ground in Beijing.

Nothing like spitting in the face of a recession. If they’re determined to press on with the opening of new stores, they’re going to have to reduce their Goyard, Valentino, Lanvin stock to one piece per location.

Can you see it now?

Julie Gilhart fights for the Rodarte dress while IM Pei demands, “No, we need to put a window here,” and Simon Doonan sqeals, “We must have both!” and all the while there’s no CEO to mediate.

It doesn’t take an MBA to realize now’s not the best time to say, “Ni hao.”

Fashion Is Fun

Madonna Really Does Love Fashion

madonna with goyard background pull.jpgMadonna has been one of fashion’s most fickle friends; all too ready
to call Jean Paul Gaultier or Olivier Theyskens when she feels like donning couture, but more often than not trudging around in track suits and baseball caps.

But in her new-ish “Give it 2 me” video, fashion seems once more to be on her mind. Madge dances around and goes on and on and on in front of a chevron pattern suspiciously like the one that covers Goyard’s signature luggage. Ok, it’s upside down, but come on.

All the while, Pharrell is playing with his much blogged about purple crocodile man-Birkin.

But given his allegiance to Vuitton, we’re surprised they don’t writhe around in front of a monogram canvas.

Go figure.

—BRETT KANE

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Is The New: Opening Ceremony and Carrie Bradshaw

Picture 2.png“As a destination for fashion insiders and the people who wish to dress like them, this may be the most influential place in retail at the moment,” wrote Eric Wilson of Opening Ceremony in The New York Times this morning.


Really?

We think it’s more like this: Opening Ceremony has only become well known, outside the fashion clique, by making brands like Topshop and Target accessible to New Yorkers.

But as far as directly influencing the fashion industry, and even the retail industry, our immediate thought was, “What about Barneys?” Isn’t Barneys the store powerful enough to propel unknown kids to style icon status, like Proenza? Isn’t Barneys to blame for the national influx of “Goyard” stamped canvas bags? How many stores can claim a Creative Director with an internationally recognized face, like Simon Doonan?

Even if you don’t agree that Barneys is the “most influential store” out there, it seems like quite a stretch to bestow the honor upon Opening Ceremony - a store that is apparently now taking notes from Target with their new celebrity clothing line.

While we usually love most of their clothes, nothing about the store appears revolutionary - not to mention that our readers repeatedly express their disappointment with Opening Ceremony in our comments section.

“Most Influential” is a pretty hefty title; on which store would you bestow the label?

Adventures in Copyright

Adventures in Copyright: 2 Downtown Bags, 1 Uptown Price


downtownbags.jpgThere are certain places we expect to see rip-offs of Stams, Goyards, Balenciaga motorcycle bags etc. - like the carts on Broadway in Soho for $40, not on not well-respected shopping sites selling for almost $1000.


The bag on the far left, by Italian designer Giorgio Brato, is great - roomy, simple, basic. We like it.

But we’ve been liking it for almost two years - since YSL debuted the Downtown Bag and everyone from Demi Moore to half of the Upper East Side slung it over their shoulder.

The Downtown’s shape, both chic and large, is very distinct - it’s the reason we found it appealing in the first place. Brato’s version might lack the three gold buttons and side buckles from the YSL, but it’s essentially the same bag, and yet for only a couple of hundred dollars less - why buy the knock-off when you can actually afford the original?

The bag’s web page says, “Please note: Each Giorgio Brato creation is a unique work of art.”

We beg to differ.

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