Victoria Beckham is working on a handbag line with Marc Jacobs alum Katie Hillier.
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen's cult fashion line The Row is launching e-commerce today.
"Yohji Yamamoto: My Dear Bomb," a book of short fiction written by the designer is due out this fall.
Dsquared is opening three new stores this month—in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and Athens and Thesaloniki, Greece.
London based footwear designer Nicholas Kirkwood is partnering with Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos on a capsule collection of fall shoes. The lineup of two styles will make their debut at the Peter Pilotto spring runway show during London Fashion Week this September. Kirkwood has been creating footwear for Peter Pilotto for two seasons, but this marks the first collection that will go into production. Kirkwood has also worked with Rodarte and Erdem on recent shoe collections.
>> When Diane von Furstenberg was reelected president of the CFDA earlier this year, the one goal she specified she had for the organization was: "We’d like to pass the law against counterfeits and copying."
A bill that came to the House of Representives last year died after clothing manufacturers argued that protection against knockoffs would only encourage litigiousness — people arguing over who had the idea first. Yesterday, Senator Charles Schumer introduced a new bill, supported by both the CFDA and the American Apparel & Footwear Assocation (the latter had argued that the House bill would expose its members to lawsuits).
