Refinery29 30 Luxury Mother’s Day Gifts That Will Make You Her Favorite Child If there’s anyone that deserves to be celebrated come May 9th, it’s your mom. After all, she did give you life… and someone to vent to during your angsty teenage years (and beyond). While moms are notorious […]
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PARIS/ZURICH – Designer Alber Elbaz, the former creative director at French fashion house Lanvin, has died from Covid-19, luxury fashion company Richemont confirmed on Sunday. He was 59. Among Elbaz’s creations were the dress worn by Meryl Streep when she accepted her Oscar for Best Actress in 2012 for “The […]
FILE – In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz acknowledges applause at the end of his Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection for Lanvin, presented during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris. Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 […]
A private memorial was held April 2 on Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Fla., for jewelry designer Alex Woo, 47, who died of cancer at her home in New York City on March 30. Woo was an award-winning designer who had been in business for more than 20 years and is […]
Adina Kamkhatchi and Isaac Mizrahi should have met years ago. Their lives were entwined; they just didn’t know it. Both grew up in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, in a tightly knit community of about 40,000 orthodox Sephardic Jews, mostly from Syria. Both spent summers in Deal, N.J., and vacationed […]
Low prices, high fashion. Walmart on Tuesday announced a partnership with fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, who has dressed the likes of Michelle Obama, Meghan Markle and Lady Gaga, to help elevate its fashion brands at an accessible price point. Fashion designer Brandon Maxwell is teaming up with Walmart to lead the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Elsa Peretti, who went from Halston model and Studio 54 regular in the 1960s and ’70s to one of the world’s most famous jewelry designers with timeless, fluid Tiffany & Co. collections often inspired by nature, has died. She was 80. She died Thursday night in […]
Elsa Peretti, known worldwide for her jewelry designs for Tiffany & Co., as well as for her previous career as a fashion model, died in her sleep Thursday night at age 80. According to a statement from her family office in Zurich, and the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, the […]
Mikimoto 18K Yellow Gold, Diamond and South Sea Pearl Necklace This Mikimoto 18k Yellow Gold … [+] Pendant Necklace Features a graduated Y-necklace of diamond floral motifs ShopWorn You are a jewelry hound, prefer branded pieces and are always looking to add to your jewelry wardrobe but these type of […]
Off Brand is a thrice-monthly column that delves into trends in fashion and beauty. WHEN THE REALITY of the pandemic hit California last March, jewelry designer Irene Neuwirth found herself in tears, walking along Venice Beach with her boyfriend. Like so many business owners, she was grappling with difficult decisions. […]
Over sixty years ago, on September 12, 1953, Jackie Bouvier walked down the aisle at Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church to marry the future president of the United States, then-junior senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. For the occasion, the bride picked an ivory silk-taffeta gown with a portrait neckline […]
Honolulu fashion designer and influencer Takeo Kobayashi died Friday in Honolulu, where he had resided since 1971, said longtime friend Yu Shing Ting. Born March 20, 1948 in Yunohama, Japan and raised in Tokyo, he was 72 years old. Kobayashi died of natural causes, Ting said. A co-founder, with his […]