After speculation that Louis Vuitton could buy the brand, Proenza Schouler has finally sold 45% of itself to Valentino. How does this affect you, the Proenza addict? Right now, it doesn’t. Valentino insists its new partnership is purely financial and strategic – they’ll help the boys with branding, distribution, sales, and staffing – but not [...]
Read more »Wolford, the luxury lingerie company, has a new designer collaboration with Valentino scheduled to hit stores in July. They’ve previously done lines with Kenzo, Missoni, Karl Lagerfeld, and Zac Posen, but after seeing pictures, we are super excited for the Valentino collection. The Valentino for Wolford line will have five bodysuits with matching leggings, in [...]
Read more »I’d like to introduce you to some old friends. I’ve known them for a while, but I still like to go visit them from time to time. They all live together in Soho, and they’re really chic. They only hang out with designers. They used to be on the runway but they haven’t been getting [...]
Read more »Teen Vogue’s Kimball Hastings brings new meaning to the term “Olsen Twin”: In a recent blog post, he compares an Elizabeth & James dress with one worn by Mary Kate to a Zac Posen party. The dresses are nearly identical, right down to their slight bell sleeve and the width of the sequin stripes. In [...]
Read more »Style.com has a fun (but weird) feature today on fashion look-a-likes: Apparently, Zac Posen and Stella McCartney (and Colin Firth in Bridget Jones) share a love of big sweaters with reindeer. We think the whole thing was influenced, subconsciously, by John Galliano’s runway from Fall ’06. In the show, models dressed like Dior’s head designer, [...]
Read more »My Fall Collectionwrites in from Yale with this news: Her law school outing on “International Property and Fashion Design” was supposed to star Ralph Rucci, but the designer canceled out. As a consolation prize, Yale fashion addicts will get to visit the studio of Zac Posen, and speak with Zac’s mother Susan, who’s not only [...]
Read more »Zac Posen is starting a blog, and he can’t stop talking about it. The London kids have already told us – twice – that Mr. Posen is keen to launch is own corner of the internet, and it’s a major priority for his staff back home. Portfolio thinks it’s a great idea, especially since Zac [...]
Read more »In one week, the Victoria and Albert museum in London debuts a new exhibition called “New York Fashion Now” which seems a lot like a Seamless come to life. The exhibit charts “the stories of twenty designers who launched their own labels in the five years between 1999 and 2004″ and details the challenges these [...]
Read more »Pop Sugar’s photos of Zac Posen in LA inspired a new question: Is Zac taking over where Tom Ford left off? The designer hit Hollywood to corral some of the same faces once cultivated by Ford (Demi Moore and Anjelica Huston among them) during LA Fashion Week, and sheathed Gwyneth Paltrow in one of his [...]
Read more »The V&A just announced an April exhibit called New York Fashion Now, which shows the work of young designers coming out of the city. Among those getting curated: Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Derek Lam, and Cloak. Not only will their work be shown in the museum, but the designers will also be included in a [...]
Read more »Yesterday in the International Herald Tribune, Suzy Menkes fretted over fashion brands invading museum halls: “There is a general feeling that museums across the world are buckling under the pressure of hugely rich designers offering clothes, cash and marketing expertise… Maybe it is time to go back to the historical approach and dare to be [...]
Read more »Reese Witherspoon’s dress by Olivier Theyskens might top the style charts, but Zac Posen’s gown for Gwyneth still wins a contest of sorts. Here’s a raw, unedited, unresearched, slightly mad scorecard for designers, dresses, and the Oscars. Zac, it seems, gets a Mr. Popularity award for two major dresses of the night… Armani – 2 [...]
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