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28 Mar

Christina Aguilera Joins Sexual Wellness Brand Playground – WWD

Christina Aguilera Joins Sexual Wellness Brand Playground – WWD
The genie is out of the bottle.  Singer-songwriter-actress Christina Aguilera is joining sexual wellness brand Playground as a cofounder and chief brand adviser because it enters into official launch mode.  The brand offers FDA-approved, water-based, skin care-infused lubricants, $25, in 4 different variations, including Love Sesh, an unscented version; After Hours, a musk and oudwood essence version; Mini Escape, a coconut and sandalwood essence version, and Date Night, a champagne and vanilla essence version. Prior to Tuesday, the brand, also cofounded by beauty veterans Catherine Magee and Sandy Vukovic, has been in a soft launch phase. Playground founders Christina Aguilera, Catherine Magee and Sandy Vukovic. Bringing on a public figure like Aguilera wasn’t the initial intention for the brand. Nonetheless, upon being introduced by...
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7 Jan

Lubomira Rochet Joins Coty’s Board – WWD

Lubomira Rochet Joins Coty’s Board – WWD
After joining Coty’s biggest shareholder as a partner last yr, former L’Oréal tech guru Lubomira Rochet has been appointed to the beauty company’s board of directors. The move increases female representation on Coty’s board to 50 percent and the whole variety of directors to 12, in line with the corporate. Rochet, a partner at JAB Holding Company, whose investments include Bally in addition to Coty, is not any stranger to the beauty business. She previously served as chief digital officer and a member of the manager committee at L’Oréal for seven years until 2021, when she joined JAB. During her tenure at L’Oréal, she led its marketing and business pivot to a digital-first company, scaling e-commerce to 27 percent of the group’s...
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15 Dec

Lanvin Joins Forces With Pronounce on Ribbon-themed Holiday Collection

Lanvin Joins Forces With Pronounce on Ribbon-themed Holiday Collection
SHANGHAI — After making headlines as the primary Chinese luxury group to go public on Wall Street, Lanvin Group‘s flagship brand Lanvin unveiled a capsule collection with Pronounce, a seven-year-old Chinese fashion label designed by Yushan Li and Jun Zhou. Speaking exclusively with WWD, Li said the collaboration stemmed from an exploration of the brand’s classic ribbon design. “We began working on the gathering during Shanghai lockdown,” said Li. “We checked out lots of the archival pieces designed by Jeanne Lanvin and Alber Elbaz and decided to interpret the ribbon in a way that we're good at, with swiftly hand-drawn prints.” The result's a capsule collection that consists of wool sweaters and scarfs stuffed with hand-drawn hearts morphed from Pronounce’s signature infinite loop...
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9 Nov

Kumi Saito’s Shots of London, Dickson Joins Gap Board,

Kumi Saito’s Shots of London, Dickson Joins Gap Board,
STREET SHOTS: The upcoming book “Have I Met You Before? London Street Style From Fashion Week 2001-2018” provides a historical record of how showgoers dressed over the past twenty years through the lens of the London-based Japanese photographer Kumi Saito, who passed away in December 2020 from cancer. Published by Parsnips Archive, the book is edited by Saito’s longtime friend and fashion journalist Mina Wakatski, who also runs London’s famed Japanese-style French pastry shop Lanka on Finchley Road. Being published on Nov. 23, the book features greater than 200 images of 111 fashion editors, buyers, models, bloggers and influencers, including Susie Lau, Sarah Harris, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Alexa Chung, Edie Campbell and Cara Delevingne, in addition to comments from the journalists whom...
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