Gucci x Dover Street Market

On Friday, July 24, Gucci and Dover Street Market announced their first collaboration. Alessandro Michele, Gucci Creative Director, will launch his first collections – Fall Winter 2015-16 and Cruise 2016 – in Dover Street Market locations in Tokyo, New York, London and Beijing. The first city to receive this collaboration was appropriately Tokyo on July …

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Hermes Launches Luxury Collection of Recycled Goods

The classic Hermes Kelly bag French luxury house Hermes may just be the catalyst to make recycling officially chic. The house has announced it is launching a collection of goods, ranging from woven leather necklaces to customized signature Kelly bags, all made with recycled pieces of leather and damaged goods. Under the artistic direction of …

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Baie Rose 26. A New Fragrance Just For Our Kind of Town

Fabrice Penot, co-creator of NYC perfume brand Le Labo was in Chicago last week launching his newest fragrance Baie Rose 26, a scent that is made exclusively for Chicago! "Soft" launching it, may be more appropriate to say, because that is the way that he said he prefers to introduce their products. Most customers of Le …

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Thakoon Debuts Fine Jewelry Line for Tasaki

Designs from Thakoon Panichgul's collection for Tasaki Last week designer Thakoon Panichgul visited Tokyo to unveil the fine jewelry designs he created for Japanese jeweler Tasaki. The Thai-born, New York-based designer told WWD how excited he was to be able to work with the world-renown jewelers, founded in 1954. "I really wanted to just go …

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Aeffe Joins Cacharel

The French fashion house Cacharel has signed a licensing deal with Italy's Aeffe Group for the manufacturing and distribution of its women's ready-to-wear collection starting next year. Until now, Cacharel had been directly and solely involved in both the distribution and manufacturing of all their women's lines, which was recently re-launched in October with a …

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