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Must Read: Thirteen Lune to Launch at JCPenney, Violette Is Guerlain's New Creative Director
Plus, Warby Parker collaborates with Entireworld.
All the Fashion and Beauty Brand Closures and Bankruptcies Caused by the Pandemic
In many cases, trouble was brewing before Covid-19 hit.
Must Read: LVMH Dismisses Kering's Sustainability Pact, Paco Rabanne to Launch Menswear
Plus, ThredUp's rapid growth shows no signs of slowing down.
Every Item in Tracee Ellis Ross's JCPenney Holiday Collection is Inclusive, Super Chic and Under $100
"I really believe women are beautiful in all shape, sizes, colors and ages."
The Comprehensive List of Where You Can Return Opened Beauty Products
For legitimate reasons, people. Legitimate ones.
Rashida Jones Is Not Down With Fashion Glasses
Rashida Jones is OK with you wearing eyeglasses, so long as they're prescription.
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Vera Wang Responds to Shanghai Controversy, Brad Goreski Goes Topless, and Giorgio Armani Supports Clean Water
Vera Wang's team responds to the allegations that its Shanghai store is charging women to try on wedding gowns. {Refinery29} Terry Richardson gets Brad Goreski to take off his shirt (but not his glasses!). {Terry's Diary} Spain-based retailer Mango is emulating Zara in its business model. {Business of Fashion} Giorgio Armani is donating $5 from each bottle sold of his Acqua di Giò and Acqua Di Gioia fragrances this month to help fund UNICEF's clean water initiative. {Elle}
JCPenney To Collaborate with Michelle Obama-Approved Designer Duro Olowu
Do you have designer collaboration fatigue yet? You better not, because there's another one to look forward to. JCPenney just announced a "seasonal collaboration" with London-based--and First Lady-approved--designer Duro Olowu.
The Top 20 Designer Collaborations: A Timeline
When H&M announced its latest designer collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela, we'll admit we were a little surprised. Margiela is so avant-garde, so cult-y, and with little name recognition (OK, more than a little thanks to Kanye) we'd have figured them the last brand to do a collaboration with a mass retailer. But then again, H&M got Karl Lagerfeld to do a line for it in 2004, and then, somehow, the retailer convinced the most reclusive and enigmatic of designers, Rei Kawakubo, to do a Comme des Garcons collaboration in 2008. So maybe it's not so surprising that Maison Martin Margiela is doing a mass collab--maybe it's even obvious. It seems like every major designer has done a lower-priced collaboration with any number of mass retailers recently.
JCPenney Lost $163M This Year--Will Collabs With Marchesa, William Rast and Betsey Johnson Save Them?
JCPenney is in major restructuring mode this year and we can’t blame them--other mass retailers and department stores are constantly pushing new collaborations and retail concepts and Penney’s has always been a little stale by comparison. In January, the company announced a slew of new measures, which included reorganizing the store layout to function more like shop-in-shops, with various collaborations with other labels--not unlike Target’s new concept. And they’ve just announced even more changes. But is it working? Not yet--yesterday, the company logged a $163 million loss for the first quarter of 2012, which is a bigger hit than executives and investors expected and probably not good considering their restructuring plan is supposed to set them back $800 million this year--especially when much of that restructuring is probably dependent on cash flow from investors.
Aww...Cindy Crawford and Her Daughter Kaia Star in New JCPenney Campaign
Cindy Crawford recently said that her 10-year-old daughter Kaia, who had starred in a Young Versace campaign, was too young to pursue modeling. Luck
JCPenney's Latest Fashion Collab? A Lingerie Line with...Cosmo
JCPenney has been in the news a lot lately; the retailer is very publicly trying to change its stodgy image and bring exciting brands to the store, with the ultimate goal of, naturally, getting people to shop there again. A Target-esque merchandising strategy was rolled out by JCP's new-ish CEO Ron Johnson at the beginning of the year, featuring collaborations with established designers and a new shop-in-shop format instead of an open selling floor. But will it work?
Nickelson Wooster Named the Creative Director of Men's Clothing at JCPenney
Fuck yeah, Nick Wooster has a (surprising) new gig! Fans of the mustachioed and tattooed style icon will recall that he was ousted as the men's fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus about a year ago. While Neiman never issued a statement about why he was let go, it happened right after Wooster gave this quote to GQ about his position there: “I am just an old f—ing midget queen who, you know, had the good fortune to get this job and it’s like, ‘How did that happen?’” Two days later he was history.
JC Penney Unveils New Target-esque $800 Million Revamp, Nanette Lepore Collab
Wednesday, JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson unveiled details of a major overhaul that JCPenney stores are about to undergo. Based on WWD’s report this morning, nothing will go unchanged--save for the name of the store and its passable ecommerce component. Johnson is focusing on the brick and mortar stores and his plans for those sound a little familiar. That’s because they’re similar to those of another mass retailer who recently announced a new retail strategy--Target. While JC Penney won’t necessarily have the same type of rotating limited edition collaboration component as The Shops at Target, their new selling floor format is the same idea. It’s all about “shops.”