Organizer Angelo Carusone turned his now 660,000 signatures-strong petition asking Macy’s to ‘dump Trump’ into an actual protest outside the retailer’s 34th St. flagship store yesterday.
An online petition urging Macy’s to cut business ties with the “unpleasant, nasty and despicable[y] behavior[ed]” Donald Trump continues to accrue digital signatures a day after the department store’s CEO defended the relationship. But could all the controversy end up actually helping Trump in the end?
Retail (and life in general) is starting (trying?) to get back to normal after Sandy. Barneys opened yesterday and today, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s, Saks and Macy’s opened their doors along with plenty of other stores in areas with power. And we’ve been happy to see that many of our favorite retailers are showing a compassionate side, while obviously also trying to generate much needed sales.
It’s day two of Sandy’s aftermath and the picture of how this disaster is impacting retail and the industry is becoming a little clearer (though, power outages and transportation problems will continue to complicate things at least through the week).
A lengthy report in today’s WWD details Sandy‘s effect thus far as well as updates from the city’s biggest retailers. Read on for a rundown.
As Hurricane Sandy moves on and New Yorkers are left to clean up the city, the full extent of the damage is becoming increasingly clear. One particularly hard hit area, at least fiscally, was retail, both in the city and beyond as stores were forced to close their doors to brace for the storm. And now reports of looting are starting to surface.
At Lucky magazine’s Fashion and Beauty Blog Conference, bloggers came from all over the country to network and listen in on insight from speakers like the Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren, Rachel Zoe, The Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine, Barneys’ Simon Doonan and reality TV star-turned-fashion designer/blogger Lauren Conrad. Naturally, awesomeness ensued. Here’s the four most important things I learned throughout the course of the day.
From Anna Wintour and Michael Kors chilling at Macy’s to Sarah Jessica Parker vogueing it at Fred Leighten, there was no shortage of mega-watt stars on hand at Fashion’s Night Out. And some of them even got up to some pretty hilarious shenanigans: Nicole Miller entertained guests with bootylicious Ailey II dancers, Coco Rocha straddled Read more →
In anticipation of the September 12 launch of Nicole Richie’s collection for Macy’s, we’ve got an exclusive peek of the reality star-turned-designer talking about her line and what inspired it. (You can see the full collection and look book here.) She says music really inspires her design–from classic ’60s and ’70s tunes to Rihanna and Read more →
Nicole Richie for Macy’s hits stores in just a few weeks on September 12 and, predictably, the buzz around the new collaboration is building–fast. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of the sketches and a peek at the campaign but today the full look book and collection dropped on Macy’s site, starring none other than Nicole Read more →
It’s baaaack. Like it or not, Fashion’s Night Out keeps chugging along–and the official website for the globally expanding shopping extravaganza, now in its fourth year, is up and running. As has become the norm for FNO (or what is more accurately a boozy Halloween for shopping enthusiasts), come September 6, stores across NYC and Read more →
Lots of things are happening for Brazilian actress, TV personality and model Camila Alves right now. She got married in June to Magic Mike star Matthew McConaughey, announced she was pregnant with her third child in July, and now she’s the new celebrity ambassador for Macy’s brand I.N.C. Also, she’s super pretty, but that’s true Read more →
Pictures from Will and Kate’s secluded island honeymoon getaway were snapped by a super stealthy paparazzo, and now it’s plastered on the cover of an Australian tabloid. {Shine}
Antwerp-based designer Christian Wijnants has been named this year’s International Woolmark European prize winner, the same award that kick-started the careers of Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. {Vogue UK}
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West stepped out in West Hollywood yesterday looking like total twinsies. {HuffPo Style}
