When Shin Choi first launched her company back in 1988, it was a contemporary line called Coleridge & Co. “It was named after the poet,” she notes. A decade later, she gave the collection a facelift, renaming it after herself and moving it into a designer price range. “When your line becomes successful, you begin [...]
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MADRID — Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa played host Thursday night at a party here to fete Eva Mendes, the face for the fragrance and CK underwear lines, with a guest list that included royalty-related Madrid socialites, local TV personalities and fashion models.
Costa and Mendes were wrapping up a personal appearance earlier in [...]
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Falic Fashion Group, which signed reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee to a fragrance deal last year, is now introducing the rapper’s inaugural men’s scent.
“For us, it was a very clear project,” said Joelle Guedalia vice president of marketing and creative for Falic Fashion Group, “We know who his fans are and we know our target [...]
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Metals are making an impact for spring — in fashion, that is — as designers go for a suggestion of shimmer or even all-out glitz. Here, photographed at Bouley restaurant, Yeohlee’s laminated linen skirt and cotton and silk tank, with Stuart Weitzman shoes, a Satya necklace, Charlotte Bjorlin D’Elia cuff, Melissa McClure branch headband and [...]
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Takashi Murakami doesn’t give much credence to his superbrand status. In fact, he doesn’t ever think of his work in that way.
“It’s probably a label that follows me around because of my work with Louis Vuitton,” he said. But despite that lucrative endeavor, the artist was only half joking when he told the crowd [...]
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