The Winners Are
The American Apparel & Footwear Association has revealed five individuals and companies that will be honored at AAFA’s American Image Awards on April 21 at The Plaza Hotel in New York.
Kenneth Cole will be awarded Person of the Year; Ralph Lauren Corp. will receive Company of the Year; Brandon Maxwell will be awarded Designer of the Year; Alibaba Group will take home Retail Innovator of the Year, and Bravo/”Project Runway” will receive Fashion Maverick. The gala will be emceed by Brooke Baldwin of CNN. The gala benefits the Council of Fashion Designers of America foundation.
“The American Image Awards is about celebrating fashion’s future. This year’s honorees exemplify this ideology,” said
Rick Helfenbein, president and chief executive officer of AAFA. “Not only are these individuals and companies successfully delivering quality and innovative products, but they are also leading our industry across key global performance issues including environmental stewardship and social responsibility.”
Steven Kolb, president and ceo of the CFDA, added, “We are appreciative of the support the AAFA has given to the CFDA over the past four years. Our efforts to develop and operate impactful programming are directly strengthened through our relationship with the AAFA.”
— LISA LOCKWOOD boutique is the camouflage pattern that appears as a wall décor, as well as on items including a revisited Bar jacket, a small Book Tote bag embroidered with the name “Cortina,” and suitcases and backpacks from the DiorTravel line, available in select locations before its global launch in January.
Open until April, the Dior store on Corso Italia also carries designs by men’s wear creative director Kim Jones, and offers a personalization service for selected items such as Book Totes, Saddle bags and Walk ‘n’ Dior sneakers. — JOELLE DIDERICH pounds for the U.K. homeless charity Crisis, Anda Rowland of bespoke tailors Anderson & Sheppard and the men’s wear stylist and writer Tom Stubbs are preparing an encore this month.
In addition to lassoing many of Britain’s major men’s wear labels, the two have tapped media friends to donate press gifts, accessories, beauty products and fragrances, and to work the shop floor.
Volcano Coffee Works, the sustainable, ethical company from New Zealand, will be serving customers inside the store, while the street artist Ben Eine has created colorful artwork for the walls. When the shop closes, his work will go on display at one of the Crisis shops in London.
The pop-up, at 31 Savile Row, opens on Monday and runs until Dec. 19, with price tags as slim as 5 pounds for a pair of socks and 30 pounds for knitwear. Rowland said she wants people to buy without worrying too much, and for everyone in the neighborhood to take part in the sale.
Other labels include YMC, Grenson and the Savile Row tailor Richard Anderson. Rowland said the shop would be taking donations until Dec. 19 when the unsold merchandise will be boxed up and sent to the Crisis shops. — SAMANTHA CONTI $58, and will be sold at Saks stores in New York and Houston and online at saks.com.
Stacy Igel, founder of
Boy Meets Girl, said after a successful unisex adult Care Bears collaboration launched in Paris with Colette over Valentines Day 2017, she was excited to launch this new Care Bears x
Boy Meets Girl sustainable kids’ collection.
Dayna Ziegler, vice president, divisional merchandise manager at Saks, said, “Our customers look to us to discover unique merchandise as well as experiences they can’t find anywhere else.”
The collaboration will be celebrated at the Saks flagship in New York on Saturday Dec. 14 from noon to 3 p.m. during which time there will be a meet and greet with Igel, as well as Care Bear characters and other activations. — L.L.
François Laffanour of Galerie Downtown: 17 original Pierre Jeanneret pieces, upholstered in Berluti’s Venezia leather.
“I’ve loved Pierre Jeanneret furniture for a very long time,” Van Assche explained. The collection includes items ranging from cinema chairs and a daybed to a desk, a bench and an armchair, done in colorful hand-applied patina, a break from the tradition of shoes and accessories for the Berluti brand, he said.
“I wanted to break that open and have it be about clothes, but use patina now in this very contemporary context,” the designer said. “Tradition with shoes is fine but it’s also possible to use that tradition in a very contemporary and modern way. So it’s about proving that all that knowhow can also be used for something totally different. This is a big step from shoes to design, so it opens up a whole world of possibilities.” — LEIGH NORDSTROM