“Suits you, sir: Taiwan Suit Walk elegantly celebrates men’s fashion

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Suits you, sir: Taiwan Suit Walk elegantly celebrates men’s fashion - South China Morning Post
Celine Relaunches E-commerce With New U.S. Site - WWD
The Last Line Launches Direct-to-Consumer Fine Jewelry Online - WWD
Maria Tash Partners With Hudson’s Bay - WWD

Suits you, sir: Taiwan Suit Walk elegantly celebrates men’s fashion - South China Morning Post

Posted: 22 Mar 2019 06:45 PM PDT

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Every March, suit lovers, including young boys, take to the streets of Taipei clad in their best ensemble to celebrate bespoke, well-tailored menswear. The event ...

Celine Relaunches E-commerce With New U.S. Site - WWD

Posted: 18 Oct 2018 12:00 AM PDT

COMING SOON: Celine has relaunched its e-commerce site, but ready-to-wear is not yet part of the assortment.

The site, overseen by creative director Hedi Slimane, marks the brand's entry into online selling in the U.S., after its launch in France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom beginning in December. Apple Pay will be added to the payment methods offered on the U.S. web site as an exclusive.

The revamped celine.com site features a selection of leather goods, small leather goods, jewelry and sunglasses from the current collection, alongside items from the spring collection, which are billed as "coming soon." Rtw will be added at a later stage, a spokesman for the brand said.

Handbag styles available for immediate order include the medium Classic bag in box calfskin, priced $4,400, and the mini Luggage in drummed calfskin at $3,100. The black version of the 16, Slimane's first handbag design unveiled by Lady Gaga on Instagram on Aug. 30, is listed as available for preorder from Oct. 22 priced $4,550.

A Celine medium C handbag in bicolor quilted calfskin. Courtesy

Prices range from $335 for Animals stud earrings to $24,800 for a Triomphe bag in crocodile skin.

Celine temporarily suspended trading on the site in the run-up to Slimane's first show for women and men on Sept. 28. Customers accessing celine.com were greeted with a countdown to the runway display.

With the long-awaited launch of its e-commerce site last year, Celine joined the ranks of luxury brands bracing against the onward march of Internet behemoths such as Alibaba and Amazon by shoring up their online businesses.

The French fashion house, owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, had long been reluctant to offer all product categories for purchase online.

Analysts at HSBC forecast the online portion of luxury sales will grow from 7 percent in 2015 to around 12 percent in 2020, accounting for as much as 40 percent of the industry's growth overall.

The Last Line Launches Direct-to-Consumer Fine Jewelry Online - WWD

Posted: 20 Jul 2017 12:00 AM PDT

The latest entrant in the online, direct-to-consumer fine jewelry arena, Los Angeles-based The Last Line, launching today, aims to be first among many companies offering baubles for female self-purchasers.

Founder Shelley Gibbs Sanders, who designed for celebrity jewelry lines and high-end brands in L.A. for 15 years, is bringing her point of view to what she considers an "over-flooded market."

"We [she and husband Teddy Sanders] found two holes in the market: there were not a lot of well-designed and high-quality staples, and nothing that felt heirloom, like when it was handmade in the Fifties and Sixties," she said.

Hence, the decision to offer a two-part collection, called Heart (the staples) and Soul (modern heirlooms). Ranging in price from $60 to $1,500 and $1,000 to $7,000, respectively, the two ranges are targeted at women who are just starting to build a fine jewelry collection as well as seasoned shoppers seeking something new.

Like Iconery, Noémie, Aurate and Vrai & Oro, The Last Line can pass on significant savings for expensive products with the direct-to-consumer business model. Gibbs Sanders can also gather customer feedback and react quickly with pieces made in Los Angeles. The site will launch with two drops of earrings, followed by necklaces, bracelets and rings.

Using 14-karat gold, diamonds, precious and semiprecious stones, the debut collection ranges from gold studs to spiral drop earrings embellished with pavé diamonds to larger prong-set stones.

"I wanted to offer a range in price within each look, so the rainbow series, for example, has everything from a starter stud to a tennis earring," she said. "Stylish women aren't wearing a single $100,000 necklace, they have on a mix of pieces."

Earrings will be sold as singles to encourage the creation of an individual look, and a virtual try-before-you-buy option allows customers to build and browse earring combinations. If that isn't enough, Gibbs Sanders will send photos of her own ears, which sport 11 pierces, wearing whichever combination a customer would like to see.

"I'm trying to create the service and high-end experience you have in a luxury store, on the Internet. Here you can save it, come back to it, really inspect it and have all the information and photos you want without anyone pressuring you to buy. It's a more relaxed environment where people can connect," she said.

At the end of the day, she hopes to become an online destination for women's favorite pieces without the worry, saying, "It's time to breathe new life into an older industry that could use change."

Maria Tash Partners With Hudson’s Bay - WWD

Posted: 15 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT

Maria Tash is heading to Canada.

The jeweler and piercing specialist will host three pop-up shops in Hudson's Bay doors in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, where each location will be open for 10 days. The first will bow at the Queen Street location in Toronto on May 18.

Tash, who has worked with celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Olsen, Uma Thurman and Scarlett Johansson, will offer her fine-jewelry collection, as well as piercing and ear-styling services on-site. Earlobes are the most popular, but piercing of ear cartilage, inner ear, nostril, septum and navel will also be available to consumers.

"Department stores need a non-Amazon experience — they all need it. You can't just have piles of clothing around and compete with Amazon. You need styling and things you can't get by sitting home in your pajamas," Tash said in an interview last week. "This is part of the reason I think we're in demand right now. We have this experience [where] not only are you getting this product, but your're getting fitted and…getting styled."

For those unfamiliar, ear styling is largely for customers who have existing piercings and want to be fitted for custom diameter and stud lengths. It's also a way for someone who might be interested in piercing to "try on." Tash said there are earrings she tests with that don't involve a piercing so a customer can get a feel for how a real piercing might look on them.

Tash maintains three freestanding doors — two in New York City and one in London — and has had pop-up shops everywhere from London and Hong Kong to Dubai and Kuwait. Saks Fifth Avenue hosted pop-ups — Tash's first with a major department store in the U.S. — in its Greenwich and New York store in April and May, respectively.

"We can do a little more in Hudson's Bay," Tash said. "Saks was ears only. [At Hudson's Bay] we can do navel, septum, nostril and nipple if you want. It's more comprehensive piercing."