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3 Dec

EXCLUSIVE: Balenciaga CEO on Brand’s U.S. Push — and

Balenciaga‘s big show in Los Angeles Saturday caps off a fancy, but ultimately encouraging, yr for the French fashion house — and underscores how necessary the U.S. market stays for its future. California particularly has been a recent focus for Balenciaga’s retail expansion — it doubled its presence on Rodeo Drive and debuted a two-story venue at South Coast Plaza — and that’s hardly a coincidence. “It’s very necessary while you have a look at the perception that all of us have of luxury, and the role played by america particularly in redefining luxury,” in accordance with Balenciaga chief executive officer Cédric Charbit. “Balenciaga also makes this claim of redefining luxury, so we've this in common.” Since Demna arrived on the creative helm...
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2 Apr

Buccellati’s Education Push, Dior’s Egyptian Campaign, Sam Edelman’s Palm

NEXT GEN REACH: The jewellery industry is well aware of the importance of passing know-how and artisanal skills right down to future generations. Industry association Federorafi recently surveyed the sector and estimated that over the subsequent five years some 3,000 artisans will probably be lost, equal to about 10 percent of the present workforce. Milan-based jeweler Buccellati is coming to the rescue, forging ties with the Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana goldsmith school to kick off master courses of 130 hours across 4 specialties: goldsmithing, chiseling, engraving and microscope stone setting. As a part of the tie-up, the Compagnie Financière Richemont-owned brand is supporting the varsity established in 1995 and covering the schooling of the six most talented students enrolled in master courses each...
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30 Mar

Officine Générale Accelerates U.S. Push With Recent Los Angeles Store

PARIS — Officine Générale is expanding its retail network within the U.S., with a recent location in Los Angeles and plans for further stores in Recent York City and San Francisco this yr. Following the opening of a store within the Palisades Village shopping mall in Pacific Palisades in January, the French brand last week unveiled its second L.A. location on North Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood, a neighborhood that the Los Angeles Times recently branded as “L.A.’s coolest recent hangout.” Pierre Mahéo, designer and chief executive officer of Officine Générale, said it’s a part of a retail rollout that also features a revamp of its e-commerce site set to launch in May. While the e-shop helped to tide over the label...
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22 Dec

Gianvito Rossi on Milan Store Revamp, Retail Push and

MILAN — Gianvito Rossi’s list of fine intentions for the brand new 12 months is brief and pretty straightforward. “To maintain doing what I like, that is gorgeous shoes, and have customers experience the brand in a way that matches the standard of the product,” he said in an interview held at his newly revamped flagship store here. The primary unit launched by the brand, the 1,400-square-foot location opened in 2008 within the historic Nineteenth-century Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi in town’s golden shopping triangle with an interior concept developed in partnership with Milan-based architect Patricia Urquiola, with whom Rossi teamed again for the refurbishing. In sync with Rossi’s approach to his designs, the revamp was more about an evolution of the previous space...
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