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Apparel, home and accessories brand Frances Valentine is claiming its next category.
Called Patio, the brand’s inaugural fragrance retails for $148 for a 100-ml. bottle and blends notes of rose, cyclamen, amber and cashmeran, searching for to evoke the sensation of summertime.
“For those who close your eyes and take into consideration what that first day of summer smells like when it hits, for me that’s honeysuckle, hedgerow and fresh-cut grass,” said Elyce Arons, who cofounded Frances Valentine in 2016 along with her longtime friend, the late Kate Spade.
The fragrance debuts direct-to-consumer and can enter the brand’s seven stand-alone stores, including a soon-to-be-opened outpost in Alexandria, Virginia. The brand estimates Patio could do $200,000 in first-year retail sales....
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The United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network hosted its annual meeting, co-convened by the Fashion Impact Fund and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, on June 1, on the United Nations Headquarters in Latest York. The event was attended by greater than 150 industry stakeholders, United Nations representatives and members of the media to debate actions, solutions and progress and advance knowledge to strengthen engagement to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.
The meeting began with a temporary but powerful statement from Annemarie Hou, executive director of the United Nations office for partnerships, who addressed the “most trendy crowd on the UN” who she urged to “make a fashion statement today.”
“We wish the world to take notice,” Hou said. “We wish...
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Think cannabis shop meets Dover Street Market meets Colette Paris, and also you’ve got Gotham, an idea store that opened in Latest York City Thursday.
Founder Joanne Wilson at all times wanted to construct a store that combined product, lifestyle and culture.
“I got here out of the retail world. I got here out of the smartphone world, and so I at all times had this concept for a store, multiple stores over time,” she said, explaining COVID-19 store closures reignited her interest.
When a friend called the previous investor of consumer brands like Food52, Parachute and Sweet Loren’s to ask in regards to the cannabis space, Wilson began researching the industry, which she equates to what “the tech business was in 1998,”...
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