Casablanca Raises Recent Funds, Names Frederick Lukoff CEO

26 Jun

LONDON — Following a fresh round of investment, Casablanca has named the longtime fashion and luxury executive Frederick Lukoff chief executive officer to work alongside founder and inventive director Charaf Tajer. An announcement is anticipated Monday. Lukoff was most recently head of Scotch & Soda, the Amsterdam-based fashion brand, and before that served as president and CEO of Stella McCartney for a decade when the corporate was part-owned by Kering. Prior to Stella McCartney, Lukoff held senior roles at Lanvin; Paco Rabanne, and Courrèges. He began his profession at Apple and Cisco Systems. “Frederick has worked with legends whom I even have at all times looked as much as, namely André Courrèges, and Alber Elbaz,” said Tajer, adding that his latest CEO had a...

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15 May

Christofle x Karl Lagerfeld Rare Flatware Set Being Auctioned

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Fashion, Featured

Need a piece of Karl Lagerfeld for the dinner table? How about 24 pieces? Lagerfeld was a longtime collector of Christofle, the silver specialists, as evidenced by quite a few pieces featured in his estate sales at Sotheby’s in 2021. In 2018, shortly before his death, the designer had collaborated with Christofle on the brand’s signature Mood silverware set, imbuing the distinctive egg-shaped case and flatware with a graphic, Art Deco-inspired pattern rendered in mirror-polished silver and glossy black lacquer. Just one,500 pieces were created — 1,000 with a stainless-steel case and just 500 in black lacquer — and all sold out upon their release. Timed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s retrospective of Lagerfeld’s life and work, Christofle has pulled out...

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11 May

Rooftop Soiree Raises Funds in Support of LIM Students

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On the rooftop of a Manhattan residential constructing Wednesday evening, it was all about cocktails, industry chatter and, most significantly, showing support for the LIM Fashion Education Foundation. Retail and fashion executives and school and students from LIM turned out for the event where Jennifer Foyle, president and executive creative officer of American Eagle and Aerie, and Michele Parsons, the chief merchandising officer of Kate Spade, were presented with LIM’s inaugural “Fashion Forward” awards. The evening raised greater than $60,000, drew about 100 supporters and likewise celebrated LIM FEF’s forty fifth anniversary. Through the years, the event has raised greater than $2 million for the muse. “The exciting a part of all that is that 80 percent of LIM students require some financial aid and your...

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