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6 Jul

Ming Lee Simmons Shines in White Lace Minidress at

Ming Lee Simmons Shines in White Lace Minidress at
Getty Images Ming Lee Simmons arrived at Elie Saab’s fall 2023 couture show for Paris Couture Week on Wednesday, taking an ethereal approach to style in a long-sleeved white lace floral embroidered minidress from the brand. She coordinated the dress with white ankle-strap platform heels and accessorized with a metallic silver clutch bag. Ming Lee Simmons Getty Images Because the daughter of former model and American designer Kimora Lee Simmons, Ming Lee has been in the general public eye since she was a baby. Longtime fans of Kimora Lee Simmons will remember Ming Lee as a part of the solid of “Kimora: Life within the Fab Lane,” a reality series that aired on E! from 2007 to 2011. The fact series followed...
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17 Jun

Women in Hip-hop Fashion: April Walker, Kimora Lee Simmons

Women in Hip-hop Fashion: April Walker, Kimora Lee Simmons
It’s the late ‘80s in Latest York City, graffiti is the omnipresent art, Run-DMC is coursing through boomboxes at block parties from its birthplace within the Bronx to Brooklyn, and off-the-rack fashion isn’t quite delivering on the vibe without the necessity for a remix. Several of the young, gifted and Black had already been getting into Dapper Dan’s in Harlem to see the designer give their suits more flavor — but April Walker wanted something for her borough and her community to call its own. And hip-hop was the thread that wove through all of it. Now, because the musical genre that became much larger than artists and albums turns 50, hip-hop’s longstanding influence on fashion is evident — but what’s at times...
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14 Jun

Kontoor CEO Scott Baxter on How VF Spin-off Set

Kontoor CEO Scott Baxter on How VF Spin-off Set
Fashion’s quick love of the following latest thing — from the newest brand to the buzziest tech — comes with an enormous blindspot.  The tried and true is commonly forgotten or left behind.  For Lee and Wrangler, it wasn’t a lot a case of being left behind, as a substitute they were dislodged from their longtime home at VF Corp. in a spin-off just over 4 years ago.  To hearken to Scott Baxter, who navigated the 2 jeans businesses and their parent company Kontoor Brands Inc. through the spin-off and the pandemic, the split proved to be just what Lee and Wrangler needed.  “The brands had lost their ability to ring a bell with their consumer,” said Baxter, Kontoor’s chairman and chief executive officer,...
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29 May

Ferragamo Taps Jeno Lee as First Global Male Brand Ambassador

Ferragamo Taps Jeno Lee as First Global Male Brand Ambassador
FIRST AMBASSADOR: Ferragamo has found its own K-pop artist. The Florentine fashion house has tapped Jeno Lee, best generally known as Jeno, as its first global male brand ambassador. A member of South Korean boy band NCT, Jeno attended the brand’s fall 2023 fashion show in Milan in February, sharing behind-the-scenes moments of his Italian trip along with his roughly 6 million followers on Instagram. “Jeno Lee has a charismatic personality and an uncanny ability to attach with a young international audience through his music, style and persona,” said Maximilian Davis, who took Ferragamo’s creative helm last yr.  “We’re driven by the identical passion for creativity,” underscored Davis, while Jeno said he was “excited concerning the opportunity to create synergies with the brand,” which...
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