Hecho, a men’s casualwear brand inspired by and made in Mexico City, has lost its cofounder, designer and chief proponent.
Jack Miner, who created the label in 2014, has exited the brand “to pursue new professional opportunities,” the company said. Daniela Xacur, Miner’s business partner and chief executive officer, will continue her “active role in the company,” and will work with its new creative director, Brenda Díaz de la Vega.
Díaz de la Vega was the editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar Mexico and Latin America and also worked in communications for Chanel.
Reached through his personal e-mail, Miner said he and Xacur “faced irreconcilable differences with regard to the future of Hecho at the end of August. Ultimately, as the minority shareholder to her majority stake, I made the decision to move on from the company.”
Xacur could not be reached for comment on the future of the label. However, its web site was not operating on Tuesday.
Hecho, which is carried at Barneys New York, Matchesfashion.com and other high-end retailers, centers around swimwear and beach-related sportswear.

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TIME SAVER: Need a manicure? Or a new hairstyle? Or just want to put your kids somewhere while you shop? Rebecca Taylor is offering harried women a time-saving shopping experience. Beginning this Saturday, Taylor’s boutique at 980 Madison Avenue in New York will offer customers complimentary babysitting, hairstyling, manicures and workout classes, among other things. Called Saturday Services, the Rebecca Taylor brand will strategically align with other brands such as Dry Bar, Pure Barre, Paint Box and Hello Sitter to offer these complimentary services on Saturdays to their customers. One service will be offered each week and a geo-targeted e-mail will go out to people in the neighborhood touting the particular service.
“We recognize that women are time-starved, and there are many demands on her weekend. Saturday Services was conceived so that our customer can maximize her time by aligning activations that would enhance the shopping experience and provide valuable services,” said Janice Sullivan, chief executive officer of Rebecca Taylor.
She said the company developed the program to not only bring traffic into the store, but to help their customers, who are juggling full-on careers and raising children. “Rather than do book signings or talk about finances, this makes her life easier,” said

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BLURRED LINES: While numerous designers remain transfixed on the unisex fashion trend, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will debut “Gender Bending Fashion” next year.
Considered to be the first major museum tackling the subject in a historic exhibition, the show will bow March 21, running through Aug. 25. The 60-plus boundary-pushing looks have been culled from Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, Palomo and Rei Kawakubo. For historical context, there are references to the garçonne look of the Twenties, the peacock revolution of the Sixties and other generational trends.
Three years in the works, the show was actually proposed before that, according to curator Michelle Finamore. “What was most enlightening was thinking about it as a very fluid conversation and one that is quite open-ended. What is happening now in terms of gender expression and gender identity is so dynamic and it’s changing by the day,” she said.
To accomplish that, she and her team spoke with Millenialls, the MFA’s Teen Arts Council, local college students and Boston academics (of which there are many). “Their grounding in gender identity and expression is so amazing to me, in terms of how they approach their own ideas about gender,” Finamore said.
The Alessandro

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OLD NEW ADDRESS: Giorgio Armani plans to relocate his signature brand flagship from Via Montenapoleone to the original and storied address on Via Sant’Andrea. That unit opened in 1983 until the designer moved his flagship to the nearby tony shopping street of Via Montenapoleone in 2008.
The Via Sant’Andrea space housed the Armani/Casa collection from 2010 until 2017, when that line also moved to the former De Padova space — a pillar in the history of the city’s design — on Corso Venezia.
“I’m leaving the Montenapoleone boutique because I prefer to return to the store I own on Via Sant’Andrea 9,” the designer said on Tuesday. “It’s where I opened the first Giorgio Armani boutique, on what was — and still is — considered one of the most discreet and sophisticated streets of Milan’s Fashion District.”
Additional details in terms of timing and design were not available.
According to speculation, Louis Vuitton, already a neighbor of Armani’s on Via Montenapoleone, is interested in taking over the space and expand, but the company in Milan had no comment.
Presenting the 21,600-square-foot store’s new concept on Via Montenapoleone in September 2008, which Armani himself designed, he touted functionality and rationality. Covering three levels, the unit is located in the

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BACK TO SCHOOL: Independent media platform Dazed & Confused is taking action to support creative education in the U.K. with its latest project, Dazed + Labs.
The initiative is created in partnership with Red Hook Labs, a U.S. public benefit corporation composed of a photography studio and school in Brooklyn that aims to create dynamic, free-to-access spaces where students can get together to share ideas, create work and get mentoring.
“Cuts in U.K. education have led to many schools losing their creative courses, including any photography provisions,” said Dazed Media cofounder Jefferson Hack, pointing to the timely nature of the new project. “The U.K.’s creative industries rely on new talent and new generations to keep it competitive and innovative. Dazed and Red Hook were built on incubating talent and participating in community projects, but we felt that now the time was right to put a more formal structure around [the initiative], so that it has the potential to scale.”
The launch of Dazed + Labs comes right after the Burberry Foundation announced plans to back an educational initiative for schools in Yorkshire, England, to measure the impact that an arts and creative education can have on young students’ lives.
The first iteration of the

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