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SHOE BUSINESS: With feminist fairy tales and equality all the rage, J.M. Weston has cast French actor Omar Sy in the role of Sleeping Beau for his latest short film.
In the entertaining clip, Sy plays a suited and barefoot Prince Charming who falls into a coma-like slumber from which nothing can wake him — not even a cardiac massage and kiss from a princess (played by young actress and classically trained dancer Alexia Giordano). It is only when she slips a pink suede calfskin Moc’ Weston loafer on his foot that he awakes.
The film — which boasts a soundtrack co-produced by rapper Oxmo Puccino and Edouard Ardan, and a décor by artist and designer Mathias Kiss — will premiere today at the Gaumont Ambassade cinema on Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysées, where the brand has set up a pop-up shop, before rolling out on its digital platforms.
The pink Moc’ will go on sale in J.M. Weston stores and concessions internationally from March 15. Created three years ago, the shoe is a variation on the brand’s iconic 180 loafer.
The house’s previous forays into film include Cédric Klapisch’s “La Chose Sûre” (“For Certain” in English) in 2013; a Moc’ Weston-inspired work by photographer and
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The see-now-buy-now movement, which launched to great fanfare a year ago but has since slowed, has lost another convert. Silas Chou and Thakoon Panichgul said Monday they have put their direct-to-consumer, see-now-buy-now venture on hold, and are considering restructuring the business.
Thakoon’s model was one of a handful of companies that experimented with the see-now-buy-now concept, to varying degrees of success. Those that showed entire see-now-buy-now collections were Rebecca Minkoff, Tommy Hilfiger, Burberry and Ralph Lauren. Other companies offered capsules of see-now-buy-now merchandise to complement the following season’s offering.
A year ago, the model was seen as the way to reignite consumer demand for designer fashion after several years of generally lackluster sales. Retailers and designers blamed the out-of-kilter fashion calendar for shoppers’ blahs, saying consumers no longer wanted to wait six months between seeing images of a collection and being able to buy it. In the age of Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, retailers contended, consumers wanted what WWD dubbed “instant fashion” — clothes they would see on the runway and would be immediately able to buy.
That was then — and this is now. Retailers queried about the see-now-buy-now movement after the most recent round of New York shows last month were decidedly less
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“It’s not all just black and white” — or so they say. But the fall season wrapped up with enough of the color combo to at least raise the question. And it turns out a lot of designers see the world that way.
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ROCKER VIBES: Neiman Marcus Group sought to bring fashion to the this year’s South by Southwest Festival, testing the appetite for see-now-buy-now among festivalgoers over the weekend.
The party, done in partnership with Gibson Brands, drew more than 400 people to the Vaughn in Austin’s Warehouse District for a fashion show that wove together shoppable men’s and women’s looks with guitars and headphones from Gibson. Live music was of course on hand throughout the evening and included performances by Erika Wennerstrom, Emily Wolfe, Band of Heathens, Midland and The Shelters.
The bash served as a kick-off of sorts to the festivities in downtown Austin, which include live music in addition to a conference running through Sunday.
Carrie Fisher, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Neiman Marcus Group, said the event served as a “timely, modern and fashionable way to continue Neiman Marcus’ presence at SXSW.”
The looks featured during the SXSW Style Kickoff Party could be purchased through the Neiman Marcus web site or its Austin store. A Neiman Marcus spokeswoman declined to say whether the evening bore out in a lift in sales for the retailer.
This marks the fourth year of involvement in SXSW and for the first time, the retailer
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For an industry that champions inclusiveness, fashion brands are still warming up to the plus-size market.
While some designers and retailers still aren’t sold on the market, the category is a robust one. Considered to be any size from 14 up, plus size was a $21.4 billion business last year, compared to $17.4 billion in 2013, according to the NPD Group. Interestingly, plus-size teens are a driving force, accounting for 34 percent of the market in 2015 compared to 19 percent in 2012, according to NPD’s 2015 Women’s Special Sizes Study.
Designers like Michael Kors and Christian Siriano featured a range of body types on their fall runways. For her fall Comme des Garçons collection, Rei Kawakubo sent models down the runway in Picasso-esque curves and bulbous creations, which she sized up in show notes as “The future of silhouette.” H&M included two more shapely models — Kate Syme and Stella Duval — in its buy-now-wear-now collection, while Nike started selling its 1x through 3x plus-size collection via its site earlier this month.
Looking to make plus size more about fashion and less about size, Prabal Gurung said he intentionally turned to Vogue to break the news of his limited-edition collection with Lane
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