Anna Wintour

Remaking Manhattan as a fashion mecca?

June 17, 2011 4:37 pm by Vanessa Friedman

The first thing I thought when I heard the news a few weeks ago that Conde Nast had signed a 25-year, $2 billion lease for a million feet in the new One World Trade Center building was: but where will they shop? Where will they eat? What will they do with their free time? Today the question was answered: they will shop at the new mall in the World Financial Centre!  Read more

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Fashion, Politics, Recession |

Lauder leaves Lauder for lifestyle

April 4, 2011 4:37 pm by Vanessa Friedman

According to the NY Post, Aerin Lauder, the current family standard bearer of the Lauder cosmetic empire (so much so that she actually was the face of the relaunch of her grandmother Estee’s favourite fragrance, Youth Dew), as well as an SVP, is Leaving the Company to Start her Own Brand. This is a big deal. Read more

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Beauty, Luxury goods |

Bloomberg TV swoons over Anna Wintour

April 1, 2011 10:40 pm by Vanessa Friedman

Last night Bloomberg TV contributed a whopper of a show to the Anna Wintour hagiography (which also includes the WSJ magazine’s recent story “Brand Anna”) as part of their “Game Changers” series. Well, it’s true she’s doing her darnedest to change the way fashion is played.  Read more

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Fashion |

Fashion Blogger Snags next H&M Collaboration

January 10, 2011 4:08 pm by Vanessa Friedman

After the much-publicised sell-out success of their pre-xmas collaboration with Lanvin, high street megalith H&M has announced their next partner: Elin Kling, a Swedish fashion blogger and stylist.

Yup. The bloggers have moved from commentators to creators.
 Read more

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Fashion, Internet, Marketing |

Alexander McQueen to headline Met Ball– and pay!

November 10, 2010 5:25 pm by Vanessa Friedman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced its next great Costume Institute theme: Alexander McQueen! And the underwriter of show as well as the opening night party, aka the Party of the Year, aka the ultimate nexus of fashion and celebrity and society (chairs are Stella McCartney, Colin Firth and Anna Wintour; honorary chairs are PPR chief Francois-Henri Pinault, owner of McQueen, and his wife, Salma Hayek), is…Alexander McQueen! What a surprise.

 Read more

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Fashion, Hollywood, Marketing, Shows, Womenswear |

Planning for the future in Milan

September 23, 2010 10:57 am by Vanessa Friedman

Something interesting is percolating up in Milanese fashion, and it has nothing to do with runways.

It has to do with things like “sustainability” and “long-term thinking” and “self-preservation” – also “procreation”, with emphasis on the latter part of the word.

To be specific, it has to do with the industry finally thinking about its own future, and the fact that if it’s going to have one, it has to start working on the logistics. Which means, at its most basic level, supporting young designers. Read more

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Fashion |

Alexander McQueen memorial stops the juggernaut of LFW

September 20, 2010 2:34 pm by Financial Times

It takes something fairly monumental to stop the juggernaut of a fashion week. Well that happened today – Monday – at 11am. Bang went the momentum that was building in the British fashion capital, and in came the memorial for deceased designer Alexander McQueen, at a venue he could have only dreamed of, St Paul’s Cathedral. Read more

Tags: , ,
Posted in Couture, Fashion |

Fashion’s stimulus plan

September 7, 2010 9:42 am by Vanessa Friedman

The White House is not the only entity thinking stimulus this week. Just after Obama announced his new plan to get the economy moving, Fashion’s Night Out version 2.0, aka this year’s bigger and better sequel to last year’s global consumption-spurring party, was launched.  Read more

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Fashion, Luxury goods, Politics, Ready-to-wear, Recession, Womenswear |
Newer entries