Rather than produce clothes on the fast-paced ready-to-wear schedule, the designer Christine Hyun Mi Nielsen, who launched her brand last year, chose an unconventional path: She shows her collections on the official haute couture calendar.…
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Pot Laced With Pesticides Forces States to Act as EPA Stays Away
Whenever Josh Wurzer buys legal California pot, he makes certain it was grown without pesticides. That’s because Wurzer, as president of cannabis-testing company SC Labs, knows how prevalent the use of health-threatening chemicals are in an industry…
LAGOS Sets The Gold Standard With New Fall Caviar Collection
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — LAGOS, the fine jewelry brand, partners with luxury retailer Neiman Marcus to launch a bold and sophisticated 18k gold collection for fall. Known for its signature Caviar designs, LAGOS unveils this new,…
Amazon gets into shoes and handbags with its new private fashion label ‘The Fix’
Amazon is again expanding its presence in the fashion industry with this week’s launch of yet another private label brand, The Fix. The new label for Prime members is aimed at women and features shoes…
People with healthy lifestyle live up to seven years longer suggests a study
People who do not smoke, consume alcohol moderately and maintain a healthy weight may live up to seven years longer than the general population, and spend most of these extra years in good health, a…
Late designer Marion Hall Best honoured with exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
DURING a period of time that was all about bold experimentation, Marion Hall Best was always one step ahead. The late interior designer’s uncanny ability to transform a room with her fierce love of bright…
Hemlines: H&M’s latest designer collaboration is with Erdem (a Canadian!) and more fashion news
H&M’s latest designer collaboration has been announced, and this time, the Swedish retailer has tapped into Canadian talent. Montreal-born and now London-based designer Erdem Moralioglu has been announced as the latest designer to create a…
At Home (and in the Garden) With Rosita Missoni
Rosita Missoni, the hardworking 85-year-old matriarch and co-founder of one of today’s great luxury fashion brands, is crouched in the mud of her vegetable garden, showing me her summer crops. “It’s a little support for…
Israeli designer challenges language divide with hybrid letters (VIDEO)
JERUSALEM, July 11 — In Israel, language is one of most visual representations of the split between the nation’s jewish and arabic populations. Signs advertise goods in both Hebrew and Arabic. Like many Israelis, Liron Lavi Turkenich, had paid…
GeekWire: Nike plans to sell products on Amazon with ‘limited’ pilot
Nike today confirmed that it will start selling products on Amazon.com, starting with “a limited Nike product assortment,” setting aside its longtime reluctance in a sign that working with the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is increasingly…