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21 Jan

Lingerie Brand Journelle Plans to Open Global HQ With

Lingerie Brand Journelle Plans to Open Global HQ With
Journelle continues to lean into wellness.  The lingerie retailer plans to open an 8,000-square-foot global headquarters in Lower Manhattan — complete with a wellness center equipped with Journelle’s first beauty bar and med spa cosmetic services; the retailer’s flagship, selling lingerie, sleepwear and wellness products; an area for social gatherings, reminiscent of bridal and bachelorette parties, and the corporate’s head offices.  Lingerie and sleepwear inside a Journelle store. The space, which might be situated at 50 Broad Street in town’s Financial District, is about to open in September, in time for Latest York Fashion Week.  “We want to pioneer and revolutionize how all people shop for intimates and address their intimate skin needs and intimate product needs multi functional place,” Guido Campello, co-owner...
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10 Jan

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’
MILAN – Jan-Jan Van Essche’s fashion must be examined up close to grasp where the designer’s creativity is channeled from. By his own admission, at first sight lots of his soft tailored pieces, deconstructed silhouettes, and handwoven garments look exactly like classical menswear tropes, except they should not only that. “I’m not going to reinvent the wheel; in menswear there are plenty of classic elements you can work around and that communicate very clearly… I attempt to reshape, literally reshape, these items by putting certain subtleties in the development, pleating elements and make them form of more sober, more minimalistic, one could say, even though it’s more like a concentration of an idea,” Van Essche said over Zoom. “I attempt to make them...
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21 Dec

Faherty to Open Madison Avenue Flagship on Latest York’s

Faherty to Open Madison Avenue Flagship on Latest York’s
The Faherty Brand will open a flagship store in Latest York this week at 1175 Madison Avenue, between 86th and 87th Streets, marking the brand’s seventh unit in the town. The three,864-square-foot store, which is able to occupy an area formerly filled by Williams-Sonoma, is not going to only feature women’s, men’s and youngsters’s apparel, but can even include a brand-run coffee shop scheduled to begin brewing its own coffee (Sun & Waves), together with serving teas and pastries, in early spring. The Faherty Brand, which was founded by twin brothers Alex and Mike Faherty in 2013, started off in menswear, but women’s now accounts for 30 percent of the general business. Sixty-five percent is menswear and 5 percent is kids’ apparel. The...
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15 Dec

Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Toast The Holiday Season

Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Toast The Holiday Season
Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Michaela Coel and Daniel Kaluuya each made mega moves in 2022. Individually starring in a number of the 12 months’s most-buzzed-about and top-grossing movies – Kaluuya shined in Jordan Peele’s NOPE alongside Keke Palmer, and Coel joined an all-star solid within the highly-anticipated Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Ceaselessly. ESSENCE caught up with Kaluyya and Coel at Moët & Chandon’s 2022 Holiday Celebration at Latest York’s Lincoln Center David Geffen Hall as they toasted to the approaching holidays, rubbing elbows with fellow stars like Trevor Noah, Taylor Russell, Chanel Iman, Victor Cruz, and Vic Mensa, amongst others. For Kaluuya, the last page of the calendar means time for some (much-needed) rest and recharging after a whirlwind benchmark 12 months in...
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