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12 Apr

Kaleidoscope Drops Founder Jesseca Dupart Shares How She …

Kaleidoscope Drops Founder Jesseca Dupart Shares How She …
Jesseca Faye Harris-Dupart has all the time bet on herself. The NOLA native learned early on that keeping guarantees is vital, especially those you make to yourself. Growing up, she had big dreams and launched into an entrepreneurial journey as a home-based stylist as a teen. Quickly gaining popularity, her clientele grew to the purpose of needing a salon, leading Harris-Dupart to take a position her savings in launching Kaleidoscope Hair Studio. Despite being a dangerous undertaking, the only mother leaned on faith. “I used to be scared as ever, but I didn’t give myself the choice to fail,” she told ESSENCE. “I used to be all in.” She poured hundreds into launching the upscale salon in the summertime of 2014...
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12 Apr

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shares Details About Upcoming

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shares Details About Upcoming
Knowing that May can’t come soon enough for Karl Lagerfeld fans and Met Gala gawkers alike, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has shared more details about The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition. “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” will bow within the museum’s Tisch Galleries on May 5 and can run through July 16. Because the name suggests, the show will trace the aesthetic and conceptual themes that continually surfaced in his collections from the ’50s up until his death in 2019. Visitors are supposed to get a multidimensional understanding of the late designer’s complex creative process and collaborative relationships with “premières d’atelier,” the seamstresses who realized his creations. Nearly all of the 150 garments that will likely be displayed will likely...
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7 Apr

Levi Strauss Shares Hit by Gross Margin Declines, Wholesale Weakness

Levi Strauss Shares Hit by Gross Margin Declines, Wholesale Weakness
As Wall Street anxious over signs of somewhat fading at Levi Strauss & Co., chief executive officer Chip Bergh told WWD that the denim leader continues to be very much in its groove.  Shares of Levi’s fell 16 percent to $15.14 after the corporate turned in first-quarter earnings that topped expectations, but were accompanied by gross margin declines, still-heavy inventories and weakness at wholesale. “The market’s going to do what the market’s going to do,” Bergh said. “We’re going to at all times run this business for the long term.”  Like many of the fashion industry, Levi’s loaded up on inventory early last 12 months when the patron was stronger and the provision chain was slower.  Bergh said the concept was: “Stonewashed 501s don’t...
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