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Lifestyle doyenne Martha Stewart is partnering with Aerosoles to be its brand ambassador and collaborate on a line of footwear, handbags and accessories for the footwear retailer.
The first style will be a limited collection of rain boots for holiday, to be followed by a complete collection for spring that will include casual and dress flats, heeled sandals, luxury mules and slides, as well as espadrille wedges. Handbags and accessories will follow.
Stewart said, “It’s fun. What we’re trying to do with Aerosoles [is] make gorgeous shoes at the right price.”
She spoke about a recent visit to Bergdorf Goodman’s shoe salon. “You couldn’t move. There were so many people shelving out thousands of dollars for a new pair of shoes. The shoes were gorgeous, but the average Joe can’t go there. We’re trying to make affordable shoes for the average person.”
First up are the equestrian-inspired rain boots, under the tag Martha Stewart for Aerosoles, which will range in price from $79 to $99. According to Stewart, they will sell on Aerosoles beginning Nov. 1, and later on at QVC, where Stewart already sells her apparel offerings. She said there was no decision yet on whether her shows will mix the fashion and
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Lilly Pulitzer, which has developed a cultlike following for its floral-printed dresses and sportswear, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a slew of initiatives.
In an interview, Michelle Kelly, the brand’s chief executive officer since 2016, outlined several developments at the King of Prussia, Pa.-based firm. Among the initiatives:
• Developing a tennis, swim and golf collection.
• Opening a Palm Beach flagship Nov. 6 at 240 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, formerly occupied by Hermès, which moved to Royal Poinciana Plaza.
• Expanding to the West Coast with its first California store opening in Fashion Island in Newport Beach in January.
• Opening its first freestanding store in Hawaii on Maui.
The company has developed a profitable and fast-growing direct-to-consumer business with 62 stores, which are largely concentrated on the East Coast, and a digital flagship. Florida is the company’s strongest market, said Kelly. Pulitzer opened its first store in Maui this summer. “It’s been really nice, and added new customers to the brand,” said Kelly, who has spent 14 years at Pulitzer, following her Harvard MBA and McKinsey experience.
The company got its start when Lilly Pulitzer herself opened her first juice stand in Palm Beach and then designed a dress to camouflage the juice
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Direct-to-consumer tableware brand Year & Day has opened its first brick-and-mortar-space, a pop-up at 91 Crosby Street in Manhattan’s SoHo.
From now through Dec. 24, the space will house the breadth of Year & Day’s assortment of tabletop products, including European-made ceramic plates, bowls, serving dishes and mugs, flatware and drinking glasses along with a small selection of gift items, such as cookbooks. Prices range from $11 or a small bowl to $180 for a four-person set of flatware.
The year-old, San Francisco-based start-up is the brainchild of founder Kathryn Duryea, a Stanford MBA who has worked for L2 and in marketing, digital and e-commerce at Tiffany & Co. When conceiving of Year & Day, Duryea envisioned a modern homewares brand for the digitally native generation that would speak to the Millennial entertaining style — informal and usually centered around an open kitchen — and the way they like to shop, which is online and without too much choice.
“I’ve long loved the tableware category, and I think there are a number of tableware brands that are beloved at the high end that aren’t really resonating in aesthetic, brand values or price points with today’s [Millennial] consumer who is now in the process
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LONDON — As they hit the refresh button, luxury brands have been unveiling new logos and sparking heated discussions about whether their rejection of the past — and newfound flair for minimalism and Helvetica fonts — is the right path to a successful re-branding.
“Basically, 99 percent of logos in fashion are just black text on a white background at the moment,” said Gregorio Poggetti, a graphic design expert and Istituto Marangoni professor, referring to recent re-brandings by the likes of Celine and Burberry, which both favor a clean, fuss-free aesthetic, sans-serif typefaces and block lettering.
“I’m not sure the designers in charge of these re-branding moves even know that being a type designer is a profession,” said Hannes Famira, the graphic designer who created the typeface for the Celine logo in 2005.
He questioned Hedi Slimane’s revised version without the accent and other tweaks: “I feel that the new Celine logo is homogenized rather than modernized. The brand just handed back the baton of sophistication and taste it carried so nicely.”
Famira added that the logo appears to be “off-the-rack” and echoed many typography experts concerns, that the growing penchant for clean, modernist typefaces could ultimately lead to the homogenization of luxury logos.
“I don’t want to
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TORONTO — For those who know him, Thierry Mugler is not one to be easily dated or constrained by time nor trends, according to Thierry-Maxime Loriot, curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ upcoming retrospective “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime,” which will run from March 2 to Sept. 8.
“Mugler always broke the rules and pushed every boundary as he created his own universe and translated that into fashion and his extraordinary accessories,” Loriot told WWD in advance of Mugler’s rare “preview” visit to the MMFA on Tuesday and his one-on-one conversation with his hand-picked curator before a handful of select invitees.
In 2011, Loriot launched the successful exhibition “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk,” which was seen by 2.3 million visitors as it spent four years on a record tour of 12 cities across the globe.
So it’s not surprising that Mugler approached Loriot two years ago to undertake this massive, 140-piece retrospective that showcases not only the designer’s imagination and craftsmanship but also the daring persona that has been on display ever since he created his first collection in 1973 and went on to dress the likes of David Bowie, Ivana Trump and Demi Moore for
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