Fashion News Alert: Rihanna Is More Viva Glam Than Ever, Brook Shields Teams with MAC, and Moncler Opens Boutique in Venice

August 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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Image courtesy of MAC

If Rihanna wasn’t glamorous enough, her new campaign for MAC’s Viva Glam Cosmetics proves that her type of glamour can embrace edgy, unconventional beauty.

For her MAC Viva Glam 2 campaign, Rihanna dons a neon green wig, metallic green dress with shimmering lipstick to match. Rihanna’s bold look highlights MAC Viva Glam’s new mauve shades that include the collection’s new metallic “lipglass” and lipsticks and mauve shades. This new collection is ideal for brown girls or ladies who want to maintain a tanned look the entire year.

With Rihanna it is always drama, drama, and more drama!! And this campaign is no exception!!

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Image courtesy of WWD.com

Brooke and MAC

It is seems to be all about MAC this week in fashion. So from Rihanna Fashion Reverie moves on to Brooke Shields new creative collaboration with MAC Cosmetics.

“There’s this little place I go to get coffee after I drop my kids [daughters Rowan, 11, and Grier, 8] off for school and after a yoga or spin class, where I think no one will see me without makeup,” she said with a laugh. “Of course, who do I run into but James [Gager, MAC’s senior vice president and creative director], Mr. MAC? After we talked a few times, he approached me about the next Icon line and asked if I would consider designing it with them,”
explain Shields in WWD.com.

Shields collaboration with MAC is a part of the brand’s  “Icon Collection” with prices ranging from $17 for a clear brow gel to a 16-shade eye shadow palette at $85. And those fashionistas who want Brooke Shields famous thick eyebrows their will be a brow liner that gives you that effect.

“I’m so used to having my makeup done by someone else—this was really my first time to delve in personally, rather than it being a mask that’s put on for a certain photo shoot. And so many times you get asked to ‘create’ something, but it ends up being ‘put your face on this.’ I got to run with this, and I loved every detail of it. I loved being a part of the process and having my taste incorporated into it. It’s not a frivolous process. There is real attention paid to quality and I’ve been spoiled by the people I got to work with and the freedom I was able to have. That invests you [in the project.]”

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Image courtesy of CM Media PR

Moncler in Venice

With boutiques in Milan, Rome, Turin, Padova, Naples, Forte dei Marmi, and the ski resorts of Courmayeur and Cortina, Moncler already has a strong presence in Italy. Add a new boutique in Venice to Moncler’s cadres of Italian boutiques.

Located in Venice luxury shopping area, the Moncler boutique stays true to the Venetian tradition with its exterior made out of white Istrian stone. The panelling of the ceilings and walls are made from chene fumé, the cabinets are made out of glass and metal and the grey Carnico stone floors create a warm and welcoming atmosphere in keeping with Moncler’s ‘haute montagne’ style.

The Venetian boutique will stock the Moncler and Moncler Grenoble Man and Woman ranges, accessories and the Moncler Lunettes eyewear collection.

—William S. Gooch

 

Fashion News Extra: Misty Scores Another One

August 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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Competition between women’s active wear is fierce with just a few brands taking the lion share of the market.  Under Armour, known mostly for its tight tees on the burly physique of linebackers has come up with a 15 million dollar ad campaign that just might lure consumers away from mega women’s active wear brands like Nike, Athleta, Lululemon, and Hanes.

With its new ad campaign “I Will What I Want,” Under Armour is attempting to rebrand itself as an active wear company that supports and empowers athletic women, ranging from soccer players to yoga enthusiasts to even sleek, regal ballerinas. Enter American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland.

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In the past couple of years Misty Copeland has accomplished some noteworthy feats. From her New York Times bestseller, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina to editorial spreads in Vogue Italia to principal roles in Coppelia, La Bayadere, Firebird, Duo Concertant, and Manon. And over the years Copeland has racked up a wide range of product endorsements from dance footwear staples Sansha, Capezio, and Block to Lavazza Coffee, Dr. Pepper, Blackberry, Payless, and Proactiv Solutions.

Still, you might ask why Misty Copeland for Under Armour? “It was a deliberate choice to feature Misty as someone who bucks the conventional definition of athlete and ushers in a new idea of what it means to be an athlete for Under Armour women,” says Leanne Fremar, the executive director of the women’s division at Under Armour in time.com. And also unlike the dated image of ballerina as an ethereal and other worldly creature, Misty Copeland is forging a new projection of ballerina as relatable, accessible, and above all, athletic.

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Image courtesy of allure.com

“It’s important to show athletic women, and the broader public, that both inner and outer strength is something that should be celebrated,” Copeland says in a time.com article about dispelling misconceptions about the ideal ballet body. “I’m grateful for the opportunity Under Armour has given me to show people the intense training and dedication that goes into ballet.”

—William S. Gooch

 

 

Fashion News Alert: Cara Delevingne’s Topshop Campaign, Annie Leibovitz Shoots Moncler, and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 Roster

August 4, 2014 by 3 Comments

???????????????????????????Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (MBFW) is just a month away. IMG has released a preliminary list of fashion participants that include many of the tried and true, but surprisingly consists of some fashion designers returning to Lincoln Center after a short absence. This season promises to be one of the most diverse assemblages of designers and brands ever presented at Lincoln Center.

Stalwart supporters of MBFW like Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Naeem Khan, Betsey Johnson, Vivienne Tam, Venexiana, Monique Lhuillier, Vera Wang, Donna Karan New York, Anna Sui,  Nanette Lepore, Nautica, Tadashi Shoji, Carolina Herrera, just to name a few, will be front and center at “The Tents.” But, you can also add to list of designers/brands returning to Lincoln Center after a hiatus Nina Skarra, Falguni and Shane Peacock, Monika Chiang, Second/Layer, Malan Breton,Ricardo Seco, and Fashion Shenzhen.

For spring 2015, MBFW has a slue of designers presenting for the first time. Abbey Glass, August Getty, Grungy Gentlemen, Anya Caliendo, CuteCircuit, Raif Adelberg, Pedro del Hierro Madrid, Crown by Colin King and others are among the first-time presenters at Lincoln Center.

Cara Delevingne's Topshop fall/winter 2014–2015 campaign image courtesy of fashionmag.com

Cara Delevingne’s Topshop fall/winter 2014–2015 campaign image courtesy of fashionmag.com

Another one for Cara

Cara Delevingne’s list of campaigns keeps piling up. Recently, Delevingne was unveiled as the star of Topshop’s fall/winter 2014–2015 campaign.

Though Delevingne has appeared in Topshop fashion shows, this is the first time she has been the face of the brand. Alasdair McLelland photographed Topshop’s fall/winter 2014–2015 campaign in London.

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Image courtesy of CM Media PR

Perfect combination

Moncler has chosen Annie Liebovitz to shoot their fall/winter 2014 campaign. The campaign will focus on Moncler’s global down jacket that can be worn anywhere around the world, at any latitude in any season.

Liebovitz will be shooting a variety of models and rugged non-models wearing the Moncler global down jacket in a variety of natural surroundings.

—William S. Gooch

Fashion News Alert: Britney Spears’ New Fashion Line, Jil Sander’s Financial Woes, and Louboutin’s Cosmetics Launch

July 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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Although Britney Spears hasn’t been making lots of news in the tabloids lately, she is getting some buzz around her new line of lingerie, The Intimate Collection.

This is not Britney’s first time at the fashion table. Spears in previous years has a couple of fragrances, with her fragrance Fantasy Twist being featured in her video “Work B*tch.”

The Intimate Collection will include lingerie items that range from camisoles and bustiers to sheer separates. The Intimate Collection will launch September 9 at an exclusive party during New York Fashion Week.

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Image courtesy of fashionmag.com

Jil Sander blues

Jil Sander has come up against some hard times. After the German brand was acquired by the Japanese group, Onward, the acquiring group was forced in 2013 to facilitate a financial restructuring of Jil Sander.

We are working on a restructuring plan and are currently in discussions with the unions. We will release details when our plans are clearer,” said Franco Pene, head of OLG (eg Gibo).

With a surging debt and profits down significantly in 2013, the restructuring plan includes the dismissal of 50 staff members of its 140 employees. And though the brand did not present a runway show during Milan’s men’s fashion week, the brand does plan on showing in September,

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Image courtesy of fashionmag.com

Louboutin red includes nail polish

It has been rumored since March 2014 that famous shoe brand would launch a cosmetics line. Well, the rumors are now fact!!

As of last Wednesday, Christian Louboutin launched its first nail polish, scartlet, in the Louboutin store in NYC on Fifth Avenue, retailing for $50.

According to fashionmag.com, the line’s other nail polishes will be sold in two phases in August in the United States. Marketing will begin in early August in Europe and in early September in the Middle East.

The cosmetic line is a result of a joint agreement between Christian Louboutin SAS and New York–based Batallure Beauty.

—William S. Gooch

 

Fashion News Alert: Macy’s Settles Suit, Karl Lagerfeld and Mattel, and Another Cover for Lupita

July 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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Karl Lagerfeld had teamed up with Mattel to create the Karl Lagerfeld Barbie.

In a sketch released by Mattel, the Karl Lagerfeld Barbie will consist of fingerless leather gloves; oversized black tie, white shirt, sunglasses, jewelry, and an XXL silver necklace, as well as Lagerfeld’s signature white hair. “It’s not every day that Barbie dresses like the world’s most famous fashion designer,” said Kim Culmone, vice president of global product design for Barbie.

The Karl Lagerfeld Barbie will be released this fall worldwide.

Actor Rob Brown of HBo's "Treme." Image courtesy of business insider.com

Actor Rob Brown of HBo’s “Treme.” Image courtesy of business insider.com

Macy’s “shop-and-frisk” backfires

Macy’s Inc., the city of New York, and Rob Brown of HBO’s “Treme” have settled a federal discrimination lawsuit that was a part of a “shop-and-frisk” controversy over racial profiling in NYC.

In November of 2013, Rob Brown sued Macy’s Inc. and the city of New York after being handcuffed by three men he believed to be undercover policemen after he purchased a $1,300 gold Movado watch for his mother in June of the same year. The alleged policemen accused him of credit card fraud, paraded the handcuffed actor through the store and keep him in a detainment cell where they mocked him for over an hour.

Brown sued for false imprisonment, assault and battery, negligent hiring and civil rights violations and was seeking unspecified money damages. “Our company strictly prohibits discrimination of any kind and has zero tolerance for racial profiling,” Macy’s said in a statement.

On last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield dismissed the case due a settlement in principle between parties. The state attorney general has launched an investigation into similar cases of “shop-and-frisk” in Barney’s, Macy’s and other NYC retailers.

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Image courtesy of huffingtonpost.com

All hail Lupita

The covers keep rolling in. And Lupita Nyong’o case its covers of the fashion industry’s most coveted fashion magazines.

Having already graced the cover of Vogue’s July cover, New York Magazine, W, and a host of other glossies, Lupita can now add Elle France to her lists of conquests. With her bright, radiant smile, Lupita rocks a canary yellow Giambattista Valli Haute Couture silk gown for the Elle France cover.

Lupita can also add to her many fashion accomplishments being voted People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman, as well as recently scoring a brand ambassador job with Lancôme.

—William S. Gooch

Fashion News Alert: Naomi Cancelled, Calvin Klein’s New Fragrance Campaign, and Armani Celebrates 80

July 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
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Image courtesy of vergemagazine.co.uk

Will Naomi Campbell have to hit the road? Well, it seems the British version of “The Face” may have had the wind pulled out from under the show when Sky Living cancelled the upcoming season.

“The Face was a brilliant show, which I am very proud of, but as is sometimes the case we have to make difficult decisions and so it is with regret that I confirm it won’t be returning for a second series,” Antonia Hurford-Jones, director of Sky Living, said today. “I’d like to take this opportunity thank Naomi and all those involved in making the show, and assure Sky Living customers I remain committed to bringing them the very best in new US and UK entertainment.”

Now, the prevailing question is if cancellation in the US is pending? Hmm, time will tell!!

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Image courtesy of fashionnewsdaily.com

REVEAL Calvin Klein is revealing

Calvin Klein has just released images of his new fragrance campaign. REVEAL Calvin  Klein features Doutzen Kroes and Charlie Hunnam wrapped seductively around each other.

While the print campaign shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, only exposes Hunnam’s muscled back, the television commercial reveals a lot more. Hunnam was originally pegged to play Christian Grey in the much-anticipated 50 Shades of Grey. Jamie Dornan, another Calvin Klein hunk, replaced Hunnam in the coveted role.

Still, consumers will get to see a lot of Hunnam in the REVEAL Calvin Klein TV spot. Would you expect less from Calvin Klein?

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80 is the charm

On July 11, Giorgio Armani celebrated his 80th birthday.

Born in 1934 in Piacenza Italy, Giorgio Armani launched his menswear brand in 1974 with his women’s wear brand launching the following year. Today, the World of Armani counts around 9,500 employees and various divisions that include: Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, EA7, Armani Collezioni, Armani Jeans, Armani Junior, Armani Exchange, Armani/Casa, Armani Beauty, Armani/Ristorante, Armani/Hotels, Armani/Fiori, and Armani/Dolci.

After reaching this great milestone, what is next for Armani? We hope more fashion and more of his inimitable style!!

—William S. Gooch

Fashion News Alert: Kanye’s Fashion Rant, Terry Richardson Captures the Rebel Spirit, and Zac Posen Takes over Brooks Brothers

July 7, 2014 by 1 Comment

 

Kate Moss in Eleven Paris fall/winter 2014 campaign

Kate Moss in Eleven Paris fall/winter 2014 campaign

In spite of charges of model molestation, fame photographer Terry Richardson continues to get work photographing fashion campaigns.

Supermodel Kate Moss and hip hop artist Wiz Khalifa joined forces with Richardson for Eleven Paris’ fall/winter 2014 campaign. “We wanted an eye capable of capturing these rebel spirits without taking things too seriously,” said Dan Cohen, one of the founders of the Eleven Paris.

This is Richardson’s second campaign for Eleven Paris.

Kanye West performing at Wireless Festival. Image courtesy of PA

Kanye West performing at Wireless Festival. Image courtesy of PA

Enough Kanye

When it comes to acting out and ranting, no one does it better than hip hop and fashion bad boy Kanye West. Recently at London’s Wireless Festival Kanye raved and railed for 20 minutes against the fashion industry, turning off and causing many attendees to walk out of the festivities.

I’m not dissing Louis Vuitton, I’m not dissing the Gucci group. I’m just saying, don’t discriminate against me because I’m a black man, or because I’m a celebrity… I can’t create . . . no black guy or celebrity is making no Louis Vuitton nothing,” the 37-year-old shouted at fans that had originally booked tickets to watch Drake, who pulled out of the festival, as recorded in the fashion.telegraph.co.uk.

The cause of Kanye’s angry diatribe; no one quite knows? Maybe, Kanye is nonplussed that the Vogue issue with him and Kim Kardashian on the cover failed to meet expected sales or his recent APC spring 2015 men’s collection is not garnishing favorable reviews.

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Image courtesy of Steven Pan

Posen and the brothers

Zac Posen keeps adding up the credits. In addition to his own red-carpet luxury line, Zac Posen was recently named creative director of Brooks Brothers women’s ready-to-wear and accessories lines.

Brooks Brothers, which has over 300 stores worldwide, is looking for Posen to add a bit of glamour and fashion-forward sensibility to its women’s line. Posen’s first collection for Brooks Brothers will be available in stores in spring of 2016.

—William S. Gooch

Fashion News Alert: Adidas Cuts Ties with Suarez, Gisele’s New Coif, and Lacoste L!ve Launches Fragrance

June 30, 2014 by 2 Comments
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Gisele Bunchen’s flowing tresses are gone; well at least for the new Balenciaga ad that will be released in a few months.

Balenciaga artistic director Alexander Wang has Bunchen rocking a buzz cut and thigh-high leather boots in the recent campaign. “This is how I see Gisele for Balenciaga; strong, powerful, mysterious and uncompromising,” Wang told WWD. “This season we worked with this idea of vanity, staged in a room filled with mirrors. But the cracked mirror is a continuing thread from the marble veins and creeping ivy leaves from seasons past.”

The Balenciaga campaign was photographed by Steven Klein and will appear in magazines in September.

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Image courtesy of bbd.co.uk

Biting retribution

Cursing, fighting, and yes, even biting can get you in whole lot of trouble, especially if you are spokesperson for a global brand.

Uruguayan soccer star Luis Suarez has been dropped as a spokesperson for Adidas after biting an Italian opponent during a World Cup match last Thursday. “Adidas certainly does not condone Luis Suarez’s recent behavior and we will again be reminding him of the high standards we expect from our players. We have no plan to use Suarez for any additional marketing activities during the 2014 FIFA World Cup,” said Adidas in a brief statement to the AFP.

Suarez has also been suspended by the FIFA for nine international games, as well as disqualified for four months from any soccer-related activity.

Adidas was Suarez’s official sponsor.

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Image courtesy of fashionmag.com

Fragrance a la Lacoste

Lacoste L!ve is launching its first fragrance tapping into its 18-25 year-old demographic. Through a licensing agreement with Proctor & Gamble Prestige, the eau de toilette fragrance will include a full range of products—a deodorant spray, a deodorant stick, and shower gel. The fragrance contains notes of lime, black licorice, and guaiac wood.

Graffiti street artist, Zoer, will be a major part of the international marketing campaign of this new fragrance. The campaign will make its way into movie theatres, television and online in early July.

—William S. Gooch

Fashion News Alert: Adriana Lima Returns to Maybelline, Alicia Keys’ Perfume Campaign, and Claudia Schiffer as Queen of the Forest

June 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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Image courtesy of Maybelline NY

After a five-year absence, Adriana Lima returns to Maybelline. Lima was global spokesperson for the brand from 2003–2009. Current global spokespeople includes Christy Turlington, Emily DiDonato, Jourdan Dunn, Marloes Horst, and a host of others.

“We are honored to welcome back Adriana to our amazing roster of spokespeople,” declares Jerome Bruhat, Global Brand President of Maybelline New York. “Globally, women admire not only Adriana’s beauty but also her commitment to helping those in need. We are honored to partner with her again. Her passion for life and positive energy is undeniable. She truly is a Maybelline woman.”

“It’s wonderful to be a part of the Maybelline New York brand again,” said Adriana in a fashionmag.com article. “I am proud to say that I am a Maybelline girl, and I look forward to the work we will do together. The imagery is always beautiful and positive which is what I admire most about the brand. To be a part of that again is a dream come true!”

Adriana Lima has the largest social media community of any fashion model. Her faced has graced the covers of the Italian, Turkish, Spanish and Brazilian editions of Vogue, American and Spanish editions of V Magazine, American, Spanish and Brazilian editions of Harper’s Bazaar, and American Elle among others. Lima’s return to Maybelline will appear in digital and print campaigns this summer.

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Image courtesy of Givenchy

Divinely Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys has lots of music fans and with her new Givenchy perfume campaign; Keys will acquire scores of new fashion and beauty fans. Givenchy’s Dahlia Divin campaign that features the Grammy-Award winning Alicia Keys will launch globally in September.

“It seems that only one type of beauty is seen as beautiful. I think it’s very important that we stretch that concept and the way that it’s viewed. The biggest mistake is to think that beauty is physical. Beauty is so internal, and it’s about who you are and what you believe in, what you stand for. That’s what makes you beautiful,” Keys told WWD. “I think that’s really important to infuse into the conversation in the beauty world. I would like to see different representations of what beauty is. I’d like to see women with a little more voluptuousness. There’s no way in the world that we’re all a size 2, and people beat themselves up if they’re not small enough or light enough or dark enough or skinny enough.”

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Image courtesy of huffingtonpost.com

Schiffer magic

From Kate Moss to Adriana Lima, it seems that supermodels of the 90s and early 2000s are scoring some of the industry’s most prestigious 2014 and 2015 ad campaigns. Add Claudia Schiffer to the list.

Schiffer appears in Dolce & Gabbana’s winter 2015 ad campaign dressed in ornate D&G dresses as Queen of a mystical forest. The new winter campaign demonstrates that Schiffer still fits in and hasn’t lost her magical touch.

—William S. Gooch

 

 

Fashion News Alert: Galliano Breaks Silence, Girbaud Joins Forces with J Brand, and Urban Outfitters Goes Big

June 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment

o.2228Self-reflection can be a good thing. And it seems that after some soul searching John Galliano has broken his silence and come to terms with some of his demons.

According to the huffingtonpost.com, Galliano in a recent interview in the French magazine Le Point, reveals his struggles with alcohol and drugs. “These past three years have taken me on an incredible journey. I have come face-to-face with my demons, the pills and alcohol. I have been on a withdrawal program, and rebuilt myself,” he told Le Point.

Oh, the precipitous road to genius!!

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Image courtesy of joonbug.com

Francois Girbaud resurfaces

Remember those fantastic Girbaud Marithe jeans of the 1980s and 90s? Since the company went bankrupt a few years back, little has been heard from the denim visionary Francois Girbaud. Other than being involved in water conservation and laser technologies, Girbaud has been all but absent from the fashion world.

Well, that is all about to change as it was recently announced that Francois Girbaud would be joining LA­–based jean company, J Brand. Though his title and position has yet to be confirmed, Girbaud admits that he will be very comfortable in Los Angeles around transplanted French confreres from the world of denim.

Since the departure of J Brand founder Jeff Rudes last May, the company has experienced a lot of shakeups. Andrew Rosen has taken over the general management from Fast Retailing president Tadashi Yani, and Lynne Koplin was hired from True Religion, given the title of president in charge of retail, sales, merchandizing, and e-commerce.

Since the brand’s acquisition by Fast Retailing the denim brand has incorporated ready-to-wear lines. J Brand has a goal of become full-fledged fashion brand in the near future.

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Size Matters

If twelve stores in New York City were not enough, Urban Outfitters has opened its largest, its thirteenth to be exact, on 34th Street in Herald Square.

The 56, 000 square foot store extends over several floors will house the Urban Outfitters clothing lines, as well as beauty products, accessories, books and music. The complex’s beauty floor will bring together 45 national and international brands. There will also be independent retailers such as the Los Angeles–based Hairroin hair salon, the record store Amoeba Music, and the eyewear brand Tortoise & Blonde.

—William S. Gooch

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