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...To date, Christopher Farr has produced carpets from artworks by Louise Bourgeois and Josef Albers as well as with contemporary creatives, including Japanese ceramicist Makoto Kagoshima, architect John Pawson...
...Lanvin creative director Bruno Sialelli, who joined in 2019, has yet to return Lanvin to the critical esteem it enjoyed under Alber Elbaz, the late Israeli designer who rejuvenated the brand....
...That same year, the South African designer Thebe Magugu won the LVMH Prize, and has since designed a collection for AZ Factory, the Richemont-owned brand founded by the late designer Alber Elbaz, while his...
...In itself this is nothing unusual — trainers are big business at Balenciaga, forming a sizeable chunk of a brand where turnover is now estimated at $2.3bn....
...When you buy higher end, you buy a brand with its own values and lexicon....
...She references Bauhaus design luminaries such as goldsmith Naum Slutzky and textile artist Anni Albers, who both fled Germany after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus school in 1933 — Slutzky to the UK and Albers...
...The sense of community was palpable too at AZ Factory’s memorial show for the late Alber Elbaz, where 47 designers created looks for an audience that included his partner, Alex Koo, and the first lady of...
...Perhaps not surprisingly, sales of classic bags by heritage brands have remained exceptionally robust....
...Della Valle, who has been a director at LVMH since 2002, retains a 63.64 per cent stake in the leather goods group he founded, which also includes the Hogan and Fay brands....
...His contribution to Kvadrat was conceptual, not technical: “I’m not Anni Albers. You have to know what the machinery can do in order to figure out what you can do with it.”...
...I first discovered his designs when he was working with Alber Elbaz at Lanvin. Then I got to know him as a person, and he’s just adorable – elegant, sensitive, a wonderful friend....
...His brand is one of only three invitees — the other two are AZ Factory, the new venture of former Lanvin creative director Alber Elbaz, and young designer Charles de Vilmorin, great-nephew of the writer...
...“These collections have to be doing double duty — they have to be inspiring and inspire our clients, but they also have to communicate our vision of the brand aggressively....
...I think the collaboration with Alber Elbaz my big friend... unfortunately, he passed away. Super big man, super good designer. We do together one capsule....
...There were later collaborations with Alber Elbaz and Dries Van Noten....
...Mr Hecquet told Vogue Business last year that revenues had finally returned to growth after struggling in the aftermath of designer Alber Elbaz’s departure in 2015....
...Among today’s broad sweep, popular brands include Balenciaga, Christian Louboutin and Chanel....
...Shorts also lost $490m, on Williams-Sonoma, an upscale kitchenware brand. “We’ve had great success during this time,” Laura Alber, Williams-Sonoma’s chief executive, told the conference this week....
...Designers Alber Elbaz and Paul Smith are also fans; both have partnered with the brand on sets of coloured pens and vaulted boxes of brightly hued pencils — the latter’s Los Angeles store, with its hot fuchsia...
...Lanvin is in the midst of a turnround under Chinese owner Fosun International, having floundered creatively and financially since Alber Elbaz departed in 2015, under its previous possessor....
...The same could be said for Missoni’s shawl-collared coats and cardigans, which were wonderful with their Art Deco patchwork and graphic Bauhaus stripes (especially reminiscent of artist Annie Albers)....
...Lanvin, founded in 1889, has struggled since star designer Alber Elbaz was fired in 2015....
...With 26,000 Instagram followers, O’Dell has worked with a range of fashion brands, from Mr Porter and Calvin Klein to men’s loungewear label Hamilton and Hare....
...— Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation and Mark and Graham — as well as growth in our largest brand Pottery Barn and our namesake brand Williams Sonoma,” said Laura Alber, chief executive....
...Coach, the heritage American brand owned by Tapestry, which also owns Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, has a dedicated clientele in the American heartland that the company must keep happy....
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