AROUND THE WORLD: Dior is racking up the air miles.

Following its pre-fall show in Mumbai in March, the French fashion house has revealed it would unveil its cruise 2024 collection in Mexico City on May 20. It plans to reveal the precise location at a later date.

Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of womenswear collections at Dior, will proceed her tradition of collaborating with local craftspeople on the annual collection, which has the potential to significantly boost tourism revenues in its destination.

“Through this exciting dialogue, the creative director will highlight the artistry and a few of the emblematic figures of this country that has been dear to Dior’s heart because the starting of the home in 1947,” the brand said in an announcement.

Chiuri established a bridge with Mexican culture along with her cruise 2019 collection, staged within the royal stables of the Domaine de Chantilly in France. The event featured a team of female Mexican rodeo riders, though it’s remembered mainly for the heavy rainstorm that doused models and guests within the semi-open venue.

Dior staged the cruise show in Seville, Spain, last yr and in Athens, Greece, in 2021. The latter was the primary major runway show with an audience following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

The brand, owned by French luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has kept up a gradual pace of physical events since, including a women’s show in Seoul, and men’s events in Los Angeles and Cairo, Egypt.

It won’t be the primary time Dior has organized a runway show in Latin America. The home has staged presentations in several countries within the region, including one in Mexico in 1954, a spokeswoman said. — JOELLE DIDERICH

GOING BLUE: Hugo Boss is shining a lightweight on denim.

As a part of a brand refresh that began last yr, the German company is launching Hugo Blue, a group dedicated to denim that can debut in the summertime of 2024.

The brand new line will sport the Hugo logo in blue and is targeted to young men and girls. It’s inspired by street culture and can feature jeans together with jerseys, knitwear, outerwear and accessories. Among the pieces shall be unisex.

“Consistent with our recent brand direction and 24/7 approach, we’re repeatedly expanding our range of casualwear offerings,” said Daniel Grieder, chief executive officer of Hugo Boss. “Constructing on the successful brand refresh of Hugo, it was a natural step forward for us to launch a second line under Hugo. With the brand new line we appeal to the younger generation of consumers and realize the brand’s full potential. We would like to encourage our customers and are confident that Hugo Blue will attract recent fans for Hugo.”

Hugo Blue will create 4 collections a yr and shall be sold at the identical entry price as the prevailing Hugo line, which is destined to appeal to a younger shopper. It would launch with a marketing campaign in addition to a store concept. The products will arrive at retail in February 2024. The Boss collection features more tailored pieces and is higher in price.

Under the leadership of Grieder, who took over the reins of the style brand in the summertime of 2020, the brand has performed well. In the primary quarter of this yr, revenues rose 25 percent to 968 million euros, a sales goal it hit two years ahead of plan. Earnings before interest and taxes were also ahead of analyst expectations, hitting 65 million euros within the yr, above the 59 million euros the market had projected. — JEAN E. PALMIERI

NEW HIRE: As Inc. continues to overhaul its executive ranks under chief executive officer Mary Dillon, the retail giant is banking on a recent hire from Nike to fuel growth at its WSS chain.

Blanca Gonzalez has been named the senior vp and general manager of WSS, effective May 15. She is going to report back to Frank Bracken, executive vp and chief industrial officer of Foot Locker Inc. (Jeffrey Porter had been interim GM of WSS.)

Prior to joining Foot Locker Inc., Gonzalez spent greater than 19 years at Nike Inc., most recently as vp of North America product merchandising. Throughout her time with the athletic giant, Gonzalez held various leadership roles inside marketing, merchandising and sales.

Now she’s going to bring her experience to WSS, a neighborhood-centric retailer with locations throughout the West Coast and a deep reference to Latine communities.

“I even have watched WSS grow its footprint in Latino communities by investing in authentic and culturally relevant touch points with its customers,” Gonzalez said in an announcement. “WSS has proven to display a high level of cultural awareness that honors and respects the richness of the Latino experience. Together we’ll construct on this relationship, continuing WSS’s success and growth, while being keenly focused on how we best serve the communities where we operate.”

Bracken lauded the chief’s “vast knowledge of the sneaker industry.”

“Blanca’s remarkable experience, understanding of our diverse customers and private roots inside WSS’s home turf will help deepen our relationships inside communities and expand WSS’ unique offering of culturally connected experiences. She may even help us construct the talent and operational capabilities to rapidly scale WSS, making it our next $1 billion banner,” he said.

Foot Locker Inc. announced the acquisition of WSS in August 2021 for $750 million in money.

In March, Dillon — who joined the corporate in September 2022 — revealed the corporate’s multipronged strategy to extend market share and grow sales to $9.5 billion by 2026. This included a continuation of WSS serving the Latine market and capturing more demand from that growing demographic. — PETER VERRY

BIG SALE: Whitney Robinson and Marc Karimzadeh are feeling an enormous lighter today.

The couple last month auctioned off contents of their Latest York City apartment and former East Hampton home at Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers. Nearly all of the contemporary sculpture, paintings, jewelry and furnishings inside 194 lots were auctioned off.

“Marc and Whitney were incredible partners within the sale,” said Laura Doyle, chief executive officer of Doyle. “They were so engaged in social media and so open to work with us. It helped us tell the story having them telling it, too. We were thrilled with the outcomes and the method. Their collection was a wealthy tapestry reflecting their lives, travels, friendships and careers,” said Doyle, who declined to disclose how much money was raised due to confidentiality agreements.

After 20 years of collecting, Robinson, the previous design editor and real estate developer and global brand consultant, and Karimzadeh, CFDA editorial and communications director, decided to declutter their apartment, decorated by Miles Redd and David Kaihoi, and their former East Hampton residence, which they sold in 2014. A lot of their furnishings and artwork were in storage.

“Each Whitney and I even have been within the creative business for a really very long time. We’ve traveled so much and we’ve accrued lots of things, and over the course of time, we’ve had 4 homes. We at all times ended up adding to our collections. We felt it was time — relatively put them in storage — to produce other people enjoy a few of the beautiful pieces we’ve accrued over time,” said Karimzadeh.

Among the many items sold were a set of 12 Jonas upholstered mahogany gondola chairs for $8,820, a glass waterfall console for $693, a Ralph Lauren Art Deco-style mahogany upholstered sofa and club chair for $2,268, an Armani Cerused oak occasional table for $504, a Lalique Languedoc Black Glass Vase for $1,260, a bunch of Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. glass barware for $1,764 and a bunch of fashion books for $1,071.

On the high end, a brooch by Schlumberger that Tiffany & Co. designed as a glittering gold, blue paillonné enamel, diamond and gem-set camel went for $11,970, while a Russell Crotty American globe sold for $10,080, a world auction record for the artist. Considered one of the one items, a Gio Ponti Walnut Secretaire and Chair estimated between $50,000 and $80,000, went unsold.

Robinson, who has previously been editor in chief of Elle Decor and elegance director at Town & Country, said, “It’s the blessing and the curse of fashion and collecting. I believe one among the things of being an editor is you would like to have the option to support artisans from all over the world. You’ll be able to write about them, as we at all times did, you possibly can work with them as I do now with my consultancy…or by buying stuff.”

Robinson said they’ve a few storage units in Greenwich, Connecticut, and in Latest York, they usually could probably fill one other 1,000 lots. “Over time, we’d rotate things out and in…we were really working within the heyday of collecting and traveling and in the peak of magazines,” he said. He said the last apartment they were living in was about 3,500 square feet, “and no corner was spared.” They’ve since moved into one other apartment, and the collecting has began up again.

“We’re unabashedly maximalists,” added Robinson. — LISA LOCKWOOD