Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe has just announced she will launch The Rachel Zoe Collection – a lifestyle brand with contemporary accessories, shoes and apparel with the possibility of a home wear collection down the line. The collection will hit the stores in autumn 2011.
Rachel Zoe Inc. was established in 2005 when she was ‘just’ a celebrity stylist (current clients include Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz, Anne Hathaway, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Garner and Demi Moore), and now comprises four subdivisions: styling, media (print, broadcast and digital), product development and consulting (she has an ongoing gig with Piperlime.com). In the last year, her Los Angeles operation has expanded from one to four offices with 14 full-time employees, including her husband, Rodger Berman, a former investment banker, now president of Rachel Zoe Inc., and Brad Goreski, her top assistant and flamboyant co-star of the reality TV programme “The Rachel Zoe Project.” Furthermore, she is very aware of promoting her brand. She currently has 181.000 followers on Twitter and counting.
Interesting to see if this is yet another stylist-turned-designer collection, or if Rachel will really hit it off like she’s done with her styling, books, newsletters and TV programme.
SHOWstudio’s founder and recognised photographer, Nick Knight, British Fashion Council’s chairman of the board and owner of Aquascutum and Jaeger, Harold Tillman and founder of Jimmy Choo, Tamara Mellon have been commended by the British Queen Elisabeth in her Birthday Honours list.
Nick Knight
The presentation will officially take place this autumn and reflects our own Danish Queen Margrethe’s recognition of Denmark’s grand old fashion journalist Didder Rønlund who was honoured earlier this year.
“I am very pleased,” Knight told Vogue.com. “It was a lovely surprise and not part of my game plan at all. I love my work and find it very exciting so it’s very gratifying to have it recognised in such a public way.”
Acne is set to open a new Acne store in London this month. Housed in the nineteenth century townhouse on Dower Street the store has three floors. Besides the men- and womenswear floors, the attic with its high ceilings and roof garden, will be home to the furniture and accessories ranges, in addition to regular installations and exhibitions. “It will be a place where customers to explore the Acne world,” elaborates Jonny Johansson, Acne’s creative director.
“This is the most important location we’ll ever do,” he reveals, who has named London as Acne’s flagship store.
Spring and early summer is the essence of showcasing the new and upcoming talents. London and especially Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion are known as a creative melting pot turning out tomorrow’s bright new shining design superstars.
The BA graduates from London College of Fashion showcased their work yesterday at an event held at The Dairy in central London. Among the guest were heavy and important industry figures such as Jane Shepherdson (former Brand Director at Top Shop), Colin McDowell (Sunday Times) and Harold Tillman (chairman of The British Fashion Council).
Only time will show if the names; Nattaphon Sampathakdee, Yelena Loguiiko, Vilvin Sabu or Karishma Shahani rings a bell in a few years time.
Danish when it’s best – Italian Vogue has selected the hottest new face to be the Danish rising super model star Caroline Brasch Nielsen.
“The new way of searching models includes the wide range offered by Scandinavian countries as new hot spots…and Caroline Brasch Nielsen sprouts from that range” says Marilena Borgna from Vogue.it and continues, “the reason why we chose her is because she is really hot!”
The 179cm tall girl from Copenhagen has already impressed at last season’s fashion weeks – Chanel, Balenciaga, Dries van Noten, YSL and Louis Vuitton is just a few of the catwalks she dominated.
http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/new-faces/2010/05/caroline-brasch-nielsen
The Couture Council of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will honour the designer Karl Lagerfeld with the Fashion Visionary Award at a benefit lunch on 10 September 2010. Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at F.I.T., said the panel of judges chose him because “he is not just incredibly respected within the fashion world, but also known to everybody and instantly recognizable.”
Once dubbed a “futurist” for his cutting-edge designs, Helmut Lang is now looking to his legacy, donating 25 signature items to the Bath Fashion Museum’s “Turn of the Century” exhibition.
The designer, who has been working as an artist since stepping down from his label in 2005, was noted for his architectural approach to fashion. His sharp lines and precise designs epitomised 1990s fashion.
In recent years, Lang has donated a number of designs to 16 galleries around the world, including London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, the Musée de la Mode in Paris and Japan’s Kyoto Costume Institute.
Turn of the Century, Bath Fashion Museum, 1 May 2010 continuing throughout 2010
An installation for Helmut Lang during Vogue Fashion Night Out 2009. Projected onto the ceiling and walls with multiple projectors. Art Direction by Pascale Guéraçague. Music by Fuck Buttons.
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Didder Rønlund, Danish fashion journalism’s ‘grand old lady’ has been honoured with a Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog. It happened when Queen Margrethe II, in keeping with tradition, took advantage of her birthday to grant decorations.
In the setting to the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog it said: “She (Didder Rønlund, ed.) paved the way for countless generations to work in this field and is a crucial factor that Danes became internationalized, compared to the great world stylists, and fashion industry as a both artistic and cultural phenomenon. ”
Didder Rønlund was the first European journalist who was sent off to New York to cover the fashion week and at the age of 83 she is still an active fashion journalist.
I was so lucky to meet Didder in an interview to Elle, which was a fantastic and unforgettable experience. I was invited to tea and sandwiches in her cozy apartment and to witness her talking about her fascinating life, both privately and professionally, her joie de vivre and unique personality was an experience I will never forget.
Warm and heartfelt congratulations Didder!
The legendary editor of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, has in the name of charity donated a one-week internship at Vogue. Tailored to the auction winner’s interests and skills this experience at Vogue will be both informative as well as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime-experience’.
Part of the internship will include attending a show during New York’s Fashion Week.
All profit will be donated to The RFK Center for Justice and the Human Rights.
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