Since its launch last April,
Meanwhile, with a collection filled with mixed prints and femme silhouettes,
Click through to peek all the items in February's installment of Made In Kind — including work from Byron Lars and Dusen Dusen — here in the slideshow.
The shingle-style Summer home Kate and Andy Spade are selling in Southampton is almost as quirky and quintessentially American as the eponymous brands the couple once designed.
At nearly three acres, the property — whose asking price was recently reduced to $4.75 million from $5.45 million — is the largest in Southampton's Art Village, where artist William Merritt Chase founded a Summer painting school in 1892. Today, the estate includes a freestanding ballroom, a painting studio, separate servant's quarters, and a two-car garage in addition to the eight-bedroom main house.
The home's interior is filled with charming details like bead board and an apron-front porcelain sink in the kitchen. It also features three fireplaces, six bathrooms, a formal dining room, and three porches that overlook the gardens and sprawling lawns. Many of the walls are covered in bead board, and wide windows and a variety of wall sconces and chandeliers keep the place light. A look at all that, here in the gallery.
Photos via Saunders & Associates
Looks like hiring Raf Simons was a really, really good business decision. Christian Dior recently announced that sales of its couture collections in 2012 were up some 24 percent over the previous year.
But it's not just the garments from Simons's debut Fall 2012 Couture collection, or Bill Gaytten's Spring 2012 Couture collection — which was well received — that experienced such high sales. Dior's various product ranges saw worldwide sales of €1.24 billion last year, or about $1.59 billion at current exchange. It amounts to a 17 percent growth in sales year over year. (It's worth noting that in 2011, the year John Galliano was dismissed from the brand, Dior's sales broke the $1 billion mark for the first time in its history.)
"These results reaffirm the exceptional quality of Dior's products and the powerful appeal of its stores," the company said in a statement.
That's not all those figures indicate. By and large, they say that the customer base for couture is growing — and that it isn't afraid to spend. Chanel's couturier Karl Lagerfeld told The New York Times recently that clients have sent their private planes to Paris to pick up his couture tailors. And in addition to New York, those planes now also come from nations with rapidly expanding or robust economies like China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. In late 2011, Reuters reported that women in the Middle East were the world's biggest consumers of couture.
Then, too, there's Simons's desire to "change the psychology of people who are interested in couture." In an interview about his first couture collection for Dior, Simons said he wanted "to make it more dynamic, appeal to a person who has a different energy. A younger person, in mind, not necessarily in age."
Has he succeeded? His talent for making clothing a variety of women want to wear — and are willing to pay for — is clearly making a big difference at Dior.
With the Fall 2013 shows about to start, it's only natural that we're thinking about our own wardrobes — and we’re not the only ones. In honor of all the wild ensembles soon to be spotted at New York Fashion Week, we've rounded up these 10 fresh off-the-runway items street-style stars will sure to be wearing come Feb. 7. Fur shoes, anyone?
Is anyone having a better year than Kate Moss? Just a few days into the second month of 2013 comes the news that the supermodel will grace four covers of i-D Magazine's Alphabetical issue, celebrating 20 years of working with the title.
With this issue, Moss adds four portraits taken by Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi to her vast portfolio of covers. She first appeared in i-D in 1993 and now has been on the cover of the magazine 13 times. But no one could have foretold that during her first cover shoot. Moss, then just 19 years old, wore an oversize sweatshirt, unbrushed hair, and not a trace of makeup. "Little did we know that this impish imperfect beauty would end up an international superstar and on more i-D covers than any other," said the magazine's founder, Terry Jones.
And despite her long and prolific career, Moss shows no signs of slowing down. She recently celebrated her 39th birthday, the publication of a book of her work, and is currently being filmed for a documentary about her life. We wonder if this cover shoot will end up in the film?
Photo courtesy of i-D Magazine.
