Cole Haan Plans for Global Expansion Cole Haan is kicking off its journey to become a global lifestyle brand. Now owned by Apax Partners, which acquired the brand from Nike Inc. in a $570 million deal last year, the American footwear, accessories and outerwear brand is launching a multifaceted strategy to accelerate growth, which goes …
Gianfranco Lotti, an Italian maker of leather goods, is staging a comeback. Originally founded in the Sixties, the company went through structural changes in September when Halder, a German investment fund, acquired its parent company Bottega Manifatturiera Borse. Coinciding with couture week in Paris, a new 1,550-square-foot Gianfranco Lotti boutique has opened on Rue Saint …
Gisele Bündchen to Front Balenciaga Fall Campaign Balenciaga’s dark ad campaign for fall features Gisele Bündchen, who in February walked the brand’s runway show in a rare catwalk appearance. “I see Gisele for Balenciaga as strong, powerful, mysterious and uncompromising,” Balenciaga artistic director Alexander Wang said of the campaign, half of which is shot in black-and-white …
Fashion designer Patrick Robinson is out at A/X Armani Exchange. According to Page Six, this happened along with recent buzz that some of his accessory designs for the brand were very similar to that of David Yurman. Robinson signed on as creative director of Armani Exchange in March 2013 and was let go quietly several …
Juicy Couture Closing All U.S. Stores Juicy Couture, the California clothing brand famous for its rhinestone-bedazzled tracksuits is shutting down all of its U.S. stores by the end of June, according to the fashion news site Racked. The struggling label’s parent company, Fifth & Pacific Companies now renamed Kate Spade & Company, sold it …
