3462955 Cynthia Steffe After a five-year absence, designer Cynthia Steffe is back with a new label, Cluny. Steffe and her husband, Rick Roberts, left Bernard Chaus Inc. back 2006 over a contract dispute, and her namesake label remained with Chaus, which continues to offer a Cynthia Steffe collection (that we often see during Fashion Week), …
A spring look by the new Chaiken and Capone Chaiken and Capone, famous for its cult following in the Nineties for great-fitting pants, is making a retail comeback this spring. Founded by Julie Chaiken and Pamela Capone in 1994, Chaiken and Capone was the best place in the mid-Nineties for big city women to find …
Brian Reyes Ever since the very peculiar absence from the Spring runways of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, more and more rumors are surfacing that Brian Reyes, the Colombian-born designer beloved by celebs like America Ferrera and Rachel Bilson, is shutting down his brand. Reyes had already decided to discontinue his main line back in the summer, …
Looks from the final Christian Lacroix couture show this summer The past few weeks, spirits have been high at struggling French fashion house, Christian Lacroix. The bankrupt label has been desperately searching for a new buyer since its last Paris couture show this past summer. And though many a bidder has thrown their hat into …
Brothers Alessandro and Guccio Gucci, great-grandsons of Guccio Gucci, will be launching To Be G handbags for spring. They are making it known that they are not trying to imitate the Gucci brand itself explained by Guccio, “We have our own vision.” He continued on to say, “There’s a solid experience behind the project and …
