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14 Nov

A Miu Miu Holiday, Rating Retail Real Estate, The

HAPPY MIU YEAR: Remember the packed, multipocketed bags paraded last month on the Miu Miu spring 2024 fashion show? They're about to get fuller. Miu Miu is to release its complete holiday campaign, offering a greater look to its extensive gifting collection crammed with festive options across ready-to-wear, accessories and lifestyle items. Logoed hair clips, velvet slippers and even a branded hot-water bottle appear next to the label’s glam apparel and signature matelassé leather bags. For the primary time, the corporate also collaborated with Polaroid and Marshall on co-branded tech items, including a camera with logoed strap in addition to headphones and speakers in a black leather Miu Miu case. The Miu Miu holiday gifting collection. While prices for the tie-ups will range from 650...
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9 Jul

Édgar Ramirez, Sebastian Stan and the Great Tank Debate

To tank or to not tank? That was the query at Loewe’s sun-soaked show Saturday. “We’re in Paris, essentially the most beautiful city on the planet, so I’m feeling very inspired. It’s hot, and I’ve got a bit tank top on and I’m feeling good,” said “Dr. Who” star Ncuti Gatwa of hitting up Jonathan Anderson’s latest collection. Édgar Ramirez was within the pro-tank top category, sporting a fitted black Loewe-logoed version while chatting with Sebastian Stan. The latter was firmly within the “no tank” category, shrugging on the lightweight overshirt that kept his arms demurely covered. “No tank tops for me,” he exclaimed, shooting off finger guns to emphasise his point. Brian Cox answered in his own, understated way. “I’m wearing...
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20 May

Former Syracuse great looks down on life from lofty

In 1989, Syracuse Herald Journal Executive Editor Bud Poliquin went to California to interview Syracuse University legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown to speak about his life and profession prior to the publication of Brown’s second autobiography, “Out of Bounds.” Here is an element considered one of the series which resulted from that interview.Part II: In talking football, race, women and his image, Jim Brown made his voice heard (from the archives)JIM BROWN: VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAINTOPFORMER SU, CLEVELAND BROWNS FOOTBALL STAR LOOKS DOWN ON LIFE FROM LOFTY PERCHPublished on Sept. 3, 1989By Bud Poliquin Executive Sports Editor of the Herald JournalTo get to the person’s castle, which stands guard high above the smog, the ocean and...
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3 May

The Great Launches Swimwear

The Great designers Emily Current and Meritt Elliott are expanding their California lake-and-lodge universe into swimwear. Their first collection, in stores now, includes reversible bralettes, smocked bandeaus, high-rise briefs, cheeky briefs, one-piece swimsuits and rash guards in seaglass florals and military green checks. Also a part of the launch, breezy cotton gauze floral and check tanks, maxi drawstring skirts, shorts and pants, coverups and dresses, sun hats, totes and beach towels open up a latest resort lifestyle category at barely cheaper price points for the contemporary brand. The designers, who met at UCLA and bonded over bell-bottoms, have been partners in fashion for nearly twenty years, from red carpet styling to launching their eponymous Current/Elliott boyfriend denim line with cofounder Serge Azria (which...
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