Leaders – Beautifaire

28 Oct

My first job was as an assistant buyer within the trend jewelry department at Bloomingdale’s, where I learned that flawless execution across every step of a process is critical to a successful final result. My job was to assist my buyer select products at market week, key in purchase orders, track inventory, replenishment and sell-through. Sometimes I'd notice that products we had ordered weren’t selling — only then to discover that hundreds of units had never even made it out to the ground! I remember spending many hours within the stockroom helping store associates find lost boxes and untangling necklaces so we wouldn’t have to break them out and will put them on the ground on the market. — Vennette...

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26 Oct

WWD Honors Top Leaders and Creators within the Fashion,

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Beauty, Featured

Tuesday night’s WWD Honors was stuffed with poignant acceptance speeches, pledges that many fashion and wonder corporations are on paths to even greater success, an invite to Barcelona, and a presentation from Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. WWD awarded quite a few designers and fashion, beauty and retail corporations with WWD Honors, recognizing their significant achievement of their respective categories. While some honorees were just getting began on their business journeys, Jeff Gennette, chief executive officer of Macy’s Inc., was recognized for his unparalleled 40-year journey to the highest of the retail world as he prepares to retire in February and pass the reins to Bloomingdale’s executive Tony Spring. Gennette, who received the Edward Nardoza Creative Leadership Award, studied creative writing and...

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1 Jul

Fashion School Leaders Express Concern Over Supreme Court Affirmative

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Fashion, Featured

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday to determine latest limits on affirmative motion programs, essentially ending the consideration of race in college admissions, caused concern amongst fashion design school leaders. In its ruling, the justices determined that Harvard and University of North Carolina’s admissions programs violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. An opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts noted that at Harvard, each application is screened by a “first reader,” who assigns a numerical rating in each of six categories: academic, extracurricular, athletic, school support, personal, and overall, and the primary reader can and does consider the applicant’s race. Throughout the method, race is taken into account. “The goal of the method, in line with Harvard’s...

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16 Jun

Nina Ricci Taps Shipka, Cartier’s Young Leader’s Award, John

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Fashion, Featured

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: American actress Kiernan Shipka is the face of the brand new Nina Le Parfum scent, from Nina Ricci, which is due out in France on Monday. “I actually have a really personal history with Nina, the fragrance,” said Nina Ricci designer Harris Reed. “It was the one perfume I'd all the time play with from my mom’s collection. It had such an enchanting shape, and I actually have these beautiful memories of cherishing it as a keepsake. So after I began at the home, perfume was something I desired to get my hands on quite quickly.” Nina by Nina Ricci, the unique scent within the fragrance franchise filled with apple-shaped flacons, was launched in 2006. Puig is Nina Ricci’s...

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