Articles by Kelly Press
Too Faced debuts in US Amazon Premium Beauty store
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Too Faced, the serious makeup brand, Tuesday announced the launch of its products in the U.S. Amazon Premium Beauty store. Too Faced is the second brand within The Estée Lauder Companies' portfolio to open a storefront in the U.S. Amazon Premium Beauty store. Too Faced has collaborated with lifestyle content creator Darcy McQueeny as its...
Benetton steps into the metaverse
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United Colors of Benetton is the next brand to step into the metaverse. The brand opens a store in the metaverse and even adapts the physical store on Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Milan to this, according to a press release. The store in the metaverse will open in a few weeks, according to the statement. Visitors will not be able to buy clothes,...
2021 Round up: The most notable acquisitions this year
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Anyone who takes a quick look at the news over the past year will have noticed one business trend: takeovers, takeovers and takeovers. Various fashion groups seem to be actively in the acquisition game, while other companies were presented with an opportunity that they could not turn down. To sum it all up: these were the most notable...
Awake NY founder: fashion needs to find consistency in nurturing black and brown talent
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Angelo Baque, former Supreme brand director and founder of Awake NY joins this edition of Highsnobiety's Podcast: The Dropcast. Host Noah Thomas and Baque cover multiple topics in the fashion industry today, from sneaker trends to second-hand fashion and artist collabs to bringing more diversity and inclusion into the fashion world. Highsnobiety...
Part 3 of 3: A conversation on mainstream media's role in the current climate of fashion
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In the final of a three-part series, Fashion: No Filter's guest editor Henrietta Gallina explores the role of mainstream media in the current climate. Henrietta shares a conversation with fashion critic Robin Givhan who is a journalist at The Washington Post. The two discuss some of Robin's highly-praised work, performative marketing faking...
Part 2 of 3: A conversation on PR's role in racism in fashion
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Podcast Fashion: No Filter hosts guest editor Henrietta Gallina discusses PR's role in society's current climate in the second of three part series. One of the ripple effects from the rise of the Black Lives Matters has been a rally cry for the fashion industry to end systemic racism. In this edition Henrietta speaks with Jordan Mitchell, the...
Part 1 of 3: A conversation of race & fashion
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Part one of three, the podcast Fashion: No Filter gives the mic to Henrietta Gallina, an advocate, creative director and co-host of popular podcast 'The Conversations', who shall be leading the discussion throughout the series. In this edition of the series, Henrietta sits down with digital creator Tamu McPherson, and BET Style Director Danielle...
Video: Louis Vuitton shares a sneak peak of the Met's newest exhibition
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Louis Vuitton celebrates the 2020 exhibition of the Costume Institute titled "About Time: Fashion and Duration” presented at the Met in New York CIty. This year's exhibition is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by exploring fashion's reflection of the times since the founding of the iconic museum. Watch the...
JCPenney one step closer to exiting chapter 11 anticipating holiday season
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JCPenney said it is near to exiting Chapter 11 ahead of the busy December 2020 holiday season. The a beleaguered retailer filed a draft asset purchase agreement towards finalization of the acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. and Simon Property Group, Inc. They are expected to buy substantially all of J.C. Penney's retail and...
García Bello: “Being on the streets helps me know my consumers better”
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After winning first prize in the sustainable fashion competition Redress Design 2020, Juliana García Bello became the centre of attention in Argentina’s fashion industry. Originally from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, she chose the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands to settle and continue developing her brand using zero-waste techniques....