SWEDE TEAM: Hennes & Mauritz has teamed with Eytys for a gender neutral collection due early next year, targeting younger consumers with a fashion-forward offer.
The fast-fashion retailer will sell the Swedish label’s chunky-soled shoes and clothing for adults as well as items for children, starting Jan. 24 in some stores around the world and online.
The collaboration comes as the Swedish retailer undergoes a vast restructuring in a bid to beef up online services and speed up supply chains to catch up with rivals. The group last month said it would close Cheap Monday, a label geared to younger clients.
“The collection is all about proportions — creating a distinct unisex silhouette by playing around with loose silhouettes and chunky architectural footwear,” said Max Schiller, Eytys creative director.
Colors will include dark green, bright yellow, khaki, dark blue, black and white, while materials will include snakeskin prints, fake patent leather and stiff cotton. Shoes will be offered in boxes decorated with artwork by painter Zoe Barcza.
According to H&M’s statement, the retailer initially approached the label for a shoe collection but then decided on a full range of clothing and accessories, too, in order to show the “whole brand aesthetic and ethos,” according to Ross Lydon,

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PARIS — It seems the demise of the star designer has been greatly exaggerated: This year’s round of designer musical chairs in the fashion industry saw the comeback of two heavy hitters, with Hedi Slimane and Riccardo Tisci showing their debut collections in September for Celine and Burberry, respectively. 
Indeed, it was a year of major reshuffles at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which in addition to Slimane appointed Kim Jones as head of men’s wear at Christian Dior; Virgil Abloh as men’s wear designer at Louis Vuitton; and Kris Van Assche as creative director of Berluti.
In naming Slimane to succeed Phoebe Philo at Celine, LVMH chairman and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault signaled his outsize ambitions for the French brand, founded in 1945. Speaking after the group reported record results for 2017, the luxury titan said revenues at Celine were close to 1 billion euros, and he expected the “global superstar” to significantly boost sales. 
“The objective with him is to reach at least 2 billion to 3 billion euros, and perhaps more, within five years,” Arnault said at the press conference in January. “Everything is in place for this brand to achieve quite exceptional growth.” 
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PARIS — Trying to pin down Virgil Abloh is about as difficult as copping one of his coveted Nike sneakers.
“Miami ­­­-> Paris -> London all in this current 24 hrs,” read a post on his Instagram Stories on Monday, summing up a day in the life of the Off-White founder and creative director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, who is WWD’s Newsmaker of the Year.
Abloh was on the Eurostar train en route to the Fashion Awards in London, where he beat Supreme, Balenciaga, Marine Serre and Alyx to win the Urban Luxe award for the second year in a row. “I still think it’s an astonishing achievement to have me in the class of designers that were nominated,” he said in his acceptance speech.

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At Art Basel Miami last week, he may not have been as ubiquitous as the year before, but Abloh still found time to support his friend Luka Sabbat; take part in a panel talk titled “Back to the Body: Human-Oriented Forms in Art, Design and Architecture,” organized by Therme Group; and deejay at the Rakastella festival on Virginia Beach.
Also in the last seven days, Abloh was named as the first creative adviser for sustainable

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If you read WWD, you surely know that Diane von Furstenberg loves an empowered woman, and an empowering one. But have you met her goddaughter, the Statue of Liberty?
What was billed as a typical pre-fall appointment — come in, kiss-kiss; 15 minutes to look at clothes on models, mannequins and racks; kiss-kiss, bye-bye — turned into a conversation about a mega non-fashion project DVF took on: securing funding for Lady Liberty’s new museum. The museum is being relocated from inside her pedestal to a new, 26,000-square-foot construction, also on Liberty Island.
While Diane’s efforts are hardly secret — the news was revealed two years ago and she has hit up a lot of rich people since then, raising a whopping $100 million — Diane wanted to downplay her involvement publicly, at least until closer to the opening, slated for a May 15 fete for which invitations will likely be as coveted as they were for the statue’s dedication ceremony in 1886. (The upcoming festivities will be happily more inclusive than the original. In a woefully historical irony, the dedication of Lady Liberty was closed to women, with outraged suffragettes protesting from boats that hovered as close as they could get to

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Rimowa will publish its first brand book today, printed in collaboration with Assouline.
The luxury luggage firm, a LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton subsidiary, will cap off its 120th anniversary year with the book’s release. In the last 12 months, Rimowa has unveiled a new visual identity and its first advertising campaign — as well as collaborations with brands including Off-White, Supreme and Fendi.
“We thought coming in with a book was a really nice way to finish off the anniversary,” said Hector Muelas, Rimowa’s chief brand officer. “Rimowa is a cult brand and our customers have been asking for a reference book to look at old images and designs.”
“Rimowa,” edited by Paris-based journalist Dan Thawley, “focuses on what makes Rimowa iconic, looking at the pillars of design and timelessness,” Muelas said.
He added of the decision to publish with Assouline: “We wanted the brand represented in an objective and qualitative way. We wanted to express our narrative with a physical object that is at the same level of quality and design as our [product].”
The book publisher’s vice president, Alex Assouline, said of its latest tome: “I grew up traveling with Rimowa. To be able to tell their story now is something we really

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