The Kohl’s DesigNation designer collab initiative is chugging right along. The Derek Lam collection–the affordable retailer’s second designer collab after Narciso Rodriguez–hits stores April 5, and they’ve just revealed who’s next in line: Catherine Malandrino.
Get ready, Francophiles.
Now that Prabal Gurung x Target is behind us, are you jonesing for another affordable designer collab? Well, get ready because Derek Lam for Kohl’s is hitting stores April 5.
There are more rumors that a Kimye klothing line is in the works. God help us. {Grazia UK}
Did you miss Andrej Pejic on the runways this past month? Don’t worry–he’s gracing the catwalk for Singapore fashion week. {the Fashion Law}
Agyness Deyn is reprising her stripper role from Pusher in a new spin-off flick. {Vogue UK}
So those TIME photos of Paul Ryan weight lifting have spawned some hilarious memes. Obvi. {The Cut}
The only trend bigger than designers doing mass collabs is designers doing Brazilian-themed mass collabs (see: Francisco Costa’s collection for Macy’s and their recent ode to Brazil). Derek Lam is the latest to journey to Rio for a collection.
Former model/House of Style hostess Daisy Fuentes debuted her latest collection for Kohl’s at NYFW today!
Janna Ryan, wife to newly named VP candidate Paul Ryan, might be taking a page from MObama’s book, choosing to wear a $70 Kohl’s dress this past weekend. {HuffPo}
Kristen Stewart’s absence from a recent Balenciaga Florabotanica video concerned many – had she been given the axe due to her fling with married director Rupert Sanders? No worries: unlike us, it appears Balenciaga doesn’t really care about the issue. {The Cut}
Tyra Banks has learned to make GIFs. This could be the best thing to happen to the internet. {BuzzFeed}
Kohl’s will soon be giving Macy’s and Target a run for their money: The department store has just announced they’ll be launching a new designer collaboration program, Design Nation, WWD is reporting. Last week, we scratched our heads over the news that Narciso Rodriguez would be designing a line for Kohl’s, but now the collaboration Read more →
It’s been a week of head-scratching designer collaboration reveals. First H&M announced their next collab with Maison Martin Margiela. And today, Narciso Rodriguez, the man behind Caroline Bisset’s iconic wedding dress–and many a Michelle Obama outfit–is taking his minimalist aesthetic to the high street. The designer has created a line for Kohl’s, WWD is reporting.
A little over a year ago, 29 workers were trapped in a fire and died tragically in a Bangladesh garment factory that produces goods for Tommy Hilfiger, Gap and Kohl’s, among other companies. And despite the fact that (according to labor groups) dangerous conditions including locked gates and bad wiring have persisted, and workers have continued to die, each of those companies has continued to do business with these dangerous factories, according to a new investigation by ABC’s Brian Ross.
Ross reports that since the fire, officials from PVH Corp. (the company that produces Hilfiger’s clothes), Gap and Kohl’s would not agree to repeated requests for interviews. So, in Februrary, ABC spoke to Hilfiger at his show during fashion week, where he told reporters, “We will never manufacture clothes in any of those factories ever again.” ABC was then kicked out of the venue by security and it turned out what Hilfiger had said was a lie. A few days later, Hilfiger admitted, “I did make a mistake in telling you that I would imagine we’d be pulling out of Bangladesh when in fact that wasn’t true.”
So why is he still using those hazardous factories to produce his preppy staples?
Lady Gaga Will Make an Appearance at Barneys New York TODAY: Well, it technically may be tomorrow. The ribbon cutting for Gaga’s Workshop is happening at 11:59 pm and she will reportedly be there. No word yet on whether Barneys is letting her wield the scissors. {Facebook}
Rebecca Black’s Song “Friday” Used For–Wait For It–Black Friday Commercial: Is Kohl’s crazy? Or crazy like a fox? The retailer used the YouTube sensation Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” and adapted it for the biggest shopping day of the year. {New York Daily News}
Miranda Kerr Spotted Shopping at Victoria’s Secret: The Angel popped into a Victoria’s Secret store on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street in NYC over the weekend with baby Flynn. The shop girls couldn’t quite place her, but eventually they figured it out. Let’s hope they gave Miranda the employee discount. {Page Six}
When word broke Friday evening that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were ending their seven year marriage, your first thought probably wasn’t ‘But what about their line for Kohl’s!?’
If that thought did occur to you, as it of course did to WWD, never fear, Kohl’s is pressing along with the couple’s line despite their recent split.
In November Kohl’s announced that the celebrity couple would design men’s and women’s lines for the store as well as a line for home, to launch this coming September. According to WWD, Kohl’s heralded Lopez and Anthony as “the first celebrity couple to simultaneously design collections for one retailer.”
Kohl’s says they still plan to release collections by Lopez and Anthony, only with a slightly different billing.
Between Martha Quinn and Carson Daly came Daisy Fuentes, arguably the most famous MTV VJ ever. She looked like a model, worked the camera like an actress, and made the whole idea of being an on air personality for the (then) music fueled channel a lot more glamorous.
But that was long ago. Since Fuentes left MTV, she’s been plenty busy with other television work. (Did you know she was one of the first Hispanics to be a Revlon girl?)
Yet she’s become, in a way, more well-known for her Kohl‘s fashion empire–which launched in 2004 and has since made over $800 million in sales–than for her work as a personality. And she’s okay with that. What was once a side project to help build her personal brand–as well as her personal worth–is now Fuentes’ serious passion. We recently caught up with the exceedingly friendly star to talk fashion, fame, and why she’ll never do a reality show.
