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Giorgio Armani recently announced that he will present his Emporio Armani’s men’s show, and women’s shows, as well as that of its next Armani Privé collection in Milan in September. The iconic designer has also decided to show his couture show in Milan rather in Paris where the brand usually presents his collections. The company still has not decided what format will used when presenting the collections.
The Armani Privé Haute Couture show will be presented in Milan in January 2021. Again, opting for Milan over Paris. The show will be a timeless collection that will contain winter and spring garments.
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Another one bites the dust
COVID-19 is having a deleterious effect of many fashion brands and the retail market. It looks as though John Varvatos is one of those brands experiencing financial difficulties. Like most fashion brands, Varvatos suffered at major hit when he closed his stores and laid off hundreds of employees on March 18 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
One Wednesday, the John Varvatos Group filed for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. And the company, as a part of the bankruptcy filing plans to sell to an affiliate of Lion Capital LLC, the majority owner of John Varvatos. Currently, the John Varvatos Group has listed over $140 million in debt.
The John Varvatos Group has been struggling financially for years. Though the company has had significant collaborations with the Stoli Group and Converse, as well as “cost-cutting measures that involved altering the brand’s clothing to attract customers in the mass market, which didn’t resonate with the brand’s existing customers,” said Joe Zorda, the company’s chief financial officer, in court filings, as reported in fashionnetwork,com, these efforts had not turned the company’s financial situation around.
John Varvatos launched his eponymous brand in 2000. John Varvatos’ brand reflects his love of rock n’ roll music.
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Jessica claps back
Is Jessica Simpson still holding a grudge against Vogue magazine’s former digital creative director Sally Singer? Hmm, Maybe!!
Looking back at previous Met Galas, Sally Singer penned a retrospective article on vogue.com’s “Only at the Met: An Oral History of the World’s Most Glamorous Ball.” Singer wrote, “ [Simpson’s] breast maybe fell out of her dress on the red carpet…and then at dinner it was suddenly like, whoa, Jessica Simpson’s breasts are across from me at the dinner table and they are on a platter and I’m looking at them.”
Simpson clapped back at Singer on an Instagram post referencing a famous 1957 picture of Sophia Loren throwing shade at Jayne Mansfield. “Feeling a little like Jayne Mansfield after reading this (inaccurate!) oral history of the #MetBall where I am body-shamed by [Singer].” She continued: “I have persevered through shaming my own body and internalizing the world’s opinions about it for my entire adult life. To read this much-anticipated article about the classiest fashion event there is and have to be shamed by another woman for having boobs in 2020 is nauseating.”
Vogue issued a formal apology to Jessica Simpson on the “Today Show.” “We are sorry that Jessica felt body-shamed by the anecdote in our Met piece,” the statement said. “That was never our intent, but we understand her reaction and we apologize for including it.”
—William S. Gooch
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