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Supermodel Linda Evangelista has a new job. Evangelista was recently named the new vice president and creative director of skincare brand Erasa.
“As someone who has had the amazing opportunity to work with incredible brands and industry leaders, I’m most excited and humbled to be a part of the Erasa family because it is wholeheartedly a product I believe in and stand behind based on the true and lasting improvements I have seen in my skin,” states Evangelista in a fashionnetwork.com article.
A friend introduced Evangelista to Erasa. Erasa XEP-30 is available online and is priced at $160.
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Trouble for Nasty Gal
Last week the Los Angeles–based clothing brand Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy. The announcement came after Nasty Gal let go of 10% of its staff in February.
Launched in 2006, Nasty Gal has grown to a 100 million dollar empire with two brick and mortar stores in Los Angeles. In 2015 the brand tapped a venture capitalist firm for $65 million in order to roll out more brick-and-mortar stores.
Nasty Gal currently carries a wide array of brands, as well as its own private label with price points ranging from low to mid-level.
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70 is the charm
In celebration of its 70th anniversary, Christian Dior is publishing a superb seven-volume anthology, each book dedicated to one of the seven couturiers that have been in charge of design at the Parisian luxury label since its creation in 1947. Those seven designers include Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri. The seven-volume anthology will be published by Assouline.
The seven-volume anthology will be published in 2017 and 2018 with the first volume, “Dior by Christian Dior 1947-1957” being released in December of 2016 in French, English, and Chinese. “Dior by Christian Dior 1947-1957 is illustrated with pictures by Laziz Hamani, and contains a selection of Christian Dior’s most important haute couture creations. The text by fashion historian Olivier Saillard tells the story of the eighty items chosen, including the renowned ‘Bar’ two-piece suite designed in 1947.
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Another fire
Thirteen Indian garment workers were killed in a fire that raged through a leather factory in the Uttar Pradesh state. Another eight workers were critically injured.
We are reason to believe that it may be linked to an electrical short circuit, but we are still looking into it,” Deepak Kumar, Ghaziabad’s Senior Superintendent of Police, told reporters. “Everyone worked together to rescue the people inside the building. These included local residents, police, fire and ambulance services.”
This recent fire highlights the neglect and lack of safety regulations in so many of the garment factories in South Asia. In 2013, the Rana Plaza factory explosion killed 1,100 garment workers and in October a fire in an explosive factory killed 8 workers.
“Despite the many disasters we have seen before, and the great amount of attention to the dangerous working conditions in the South Asian garment industry, factories there largely remain unsafe. These workers were killed because they were sleeping in the factory,” said Carin Leffler of the Clean Clothes Campaign.
“The deep tragedy that took 13 peoples’ lives in Sahibabad this morning shows that there is still a long way to go before workers can feel safe.”
—William S. Gooch
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