Calypso founder Christiane Celle is back on the retail scene with Clic Bookstore & Gallery.
Still tied by a noncompete agreement, she has turned her attention to photography and art with a shop at 189 Lafayette Street in New York. In February, the plan is to open a 2,000-square-foot gallery around the corner at 255 [...]
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Ariane Zurcher’s entre into the jewelry business was decidedly unconventional. Although she had worked as a freelance knitwear designer and graduated from Parsons School of Design (now known as Parsons The New School for Design) in 1984, she left the industry for a career in advertising in the Nineties, ultimately ascending to the role of [...]
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L’Occitane en Provence, which has produced natural skin care products with ingredients such as lavender sourced from local French farmers for decades, is introducing in spring its first collection of organic facial skin care products, called Organic Olive Oil Cream Based Care.
The five-item collection, which is poised to launch in April, includes a cleansing [...]
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Niche perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has set out to cultivate a local clientele with Essence Studio, her shop that opened recently in Boulder, Colo.
“There is a growing interest in niche fragrance, and there is very little of it here,” said 38-year-old Spencer Hurwitz, whose umbrella company is named Parfums des Beaux Arts. “The kinds [...]
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Moschino Cheap & Chic has put its cheeky stamp on costume jewelry. The brand’s foray into the genre, which began with the fall collection, includes watches for men and women and jewelry such as earrings, necklaces, bracelets and cuff links made with ionized steel in silver, yellow or rose tints with shiny or brushed finishes.
Moschino’s [...]
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BERLIN — A conversation with Humiecki & Graef’s Tobias Mksch and Sebastian Fischenich is like a romp through an irreverent humanities course, tripping over romanticism, dada and kitsch on the way.
The designing pair, clad in coordinating bow ties and big chunky glasses, have a new line of five fragrances that marry high concept with [...]
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LONDON — There aren’t many designers who fondly recall the days when fashion was just another trade, and when the spotlight was on the client — rather than the talent. But David Sassoon, who’s still designing — and dishing — at age 76, is one of them.
The mischievous, self-deprecating designer famous for his elegant, [...]
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PARIS - Ted Lapidus, the French fashion designer who shot to fame in the Sixties with his modern, unisex creations, emblematized by the safari suit, reportedly died Monday in a hospital in Cannes from respiratory failure. He was 79. French president Nicholas Sarkozy paid homage to the designer once labeled the “poet of haute couture.” [...]
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A former national makeup artist for YSL Beaut has filed a discrimination lawsuit accusing the company of firing him because a heart condition forced him to pare his travel schedule.
In a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan on Dec. 17, Joseph Costa alleges that the company violated the Americans With Disabilities Act when [...]
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Even as the ownership of the Bill Blass Couture fashion house is determined, the firm’s licensee, First American Brands, is adding to the Bill Blass Couture fragrance collection.
The line includes four scents named with numerals, like Couture 6 and Couture 7, and is carried at Saks Fifth Avenue. They will be joined by Bill [...]
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