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IN AND OUT: Former Stuart Weitzman creative director Giovanni Morelli has joined Valentino as accessories design director, WWD has learned. He reports to creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. Morelli, who left the Tapestry Inc.-owned brand in May after one year, is a former leather goods designer for Loewe, Marc Jacobs and Chloé.
Morelli’s exit followed allegations of sexual harassment filed by Stuart Weitzman’s vice president Thomas Gibb, but Tapestry itself has since taken action against Gibb, terminating him and filing its own lawsuit against the executive, alleging breach of contract, duty of loyalty and diversion of corporate opportunities.
At the same time, Valentino’s chief marketing officer Isabelle Harvie-Watt has exited the company after only six months. This was a new role at the company and it is understood it is now vacant.
Born and raised in London, Harvie-Watt has been working in Italy for more than 25 years. Before Valentino, she was a managing partner and ceo of the Spring Group — Spring Studios and Spring Place — in Milan, tasked with expanding and managing the group’s footprint in Italy. Prior to this, Harvie-Watt spent five years as ceo and country manager of Havas Media Group in Italy. While at Havas, she also founded and launched Luxhub, a global strategic consulting division for the

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EXPRESS YOURSELF: Online sneaker reselling marketplace Goat has inked a deal to have Kyle Kuzma serve as the face of its brand.
The Los Angeles Lakers player, as part of the deal, will don various sneakers sourced from Goat throughout the season during and outside of games. The deal reflects a seizing of the NBA’s reversed course on a rule that had dictated what sneaker colors players could wear on the court. The rule change now allows for any color footwear during games.
For Goat, Kuzma marks the first time the company is spending to have an ambassador for the brand and follows a flurry of activity this year.
Goat has grown through its digital marketplace that lets people buy and sell sneakers authenticated by Goat.
In February, the company, which launched in 2015, merged with Flight Club, a sneaker consignment retailer with doors in Los Angeles and New York, effectively combining the worlds of physical retail and online for sneaker reselling. It also pulled in $60 million in additional funding this year, bringing its total capital raised to date to $97.6 million.
In the summer, the company said it hired Lizzie Francis as chief operating officer, the first for Goat. The executive joined the

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Bruno Magli is launching a “Bruno in Business” video series at its SoHo store starting tonight.
The series is tied into a charitable partnership with Dress for Success, an organization that works to empower women to achieve independence by providing business attire and development tools to thrive in work and life.
The weekly series will feature business and thought leaders speaking about their paths to success. They include Justin Wolverton, founder and president of the low-calorie, high-protein ice-cream brand Halo Top; Chris Riccobono, co-founder of the Untuckit; Claudia Ciuti, footwear designer who designs women’s shoes for Bruno Magli, and Joi Gordon, chief executive officer of Dress for Success.
“The dynamic professionals featured in the ‘Bruno in Business’ video series serve as inspiration for others who are starting out on a path to fulfill their dreams,” said Cory M. Baker, chief operating officer of Marquee Brands, parent company of Bruno Magli.
The videos were created over the course of several months earlier this year and filmed in both New York City and Los Angeles. They will be shown weekly on the brand’s social channels.
At the same time, Bruno Magli will reveal tonight that it has signed on to be a signature partner in Dress for

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FLIGHT OR FRIGHT: The plane carrying First Lady Melania Trump to Philadelphia for a goodwill hospital visit this morning had to track back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after a small amount of smoke could be seen in the plane and a burning smell was detected, according to a press pool report.
Fifteen minutes into what was supposed to be a 30-minute flight, the aircraft was rerouted. FLOTUS spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham described the issue as “minor,” and she told the press pool more information would be given later after diagnostics were completed, the pool report said.
A flight crew member handed out damp washcloths to passengers to hold over their faces for the odor, which also reportedly included Secretary of Health and Human services Alex M. Azar. Trump, her team and select members of the media had been traveling on a Boeing C-32A “Bright Star.”
A staffer entered the compartment where media types were seated to inform them of a “mechanical problem” and the need to return to Joint Base Andrews for reevaluation on the tarmac. Shortly after 9 a.m., the plane landed and passengers were shepherded to a lounge area. The trip was expected to go forward with a second aircraft, according

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Everlane, the San Francisco-based, direct-to-consumer brand that has become a sensation based on its commitment to “radical transparency” in terms of pricing and ethical factories, has a new cause: By 2021, the company plans to be completely free of virgin plastics.
The plan was announced at a dinner held Tuesday on the rooftop of the Brooklyn Grange farm, hosted by Everlane founder Michael Preysman, along with Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, who invested in the brand through their venture cap fund Imaginary Ventures. The food was by Dan Barber of Blue Hill, whose sustainable farming and cuisine philosophy dovetail nicely with Everlane’s. Lest the menu and speeches by Barber, Massenet and Preysman didn’t hammer the point of event home, the al fresco setting helped. As temperatures dipped into the 40s, guests ate huddled under Everlane blankets and sweaters in its new ReNew fleece, which is made from recycled plastic bottles.
“Michael and I have been joking, saying we thought we would host this dinner in a very, very cold place so that you would never forget how important it is to have a fleece blanket in your life, and this would sort of burn Everlane into your mind forever and ever,” Massenet

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