Sunday, January 30, 2011

Loose Threads

• Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet has been named Louis Vuitton’s new North American president and chief executive officer.

• Jean Paul Gaultier is getting his first museum retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this June.

• Actress Sofia Vergara is partnering with Kmart on a capsule collection of clingy dresses and leggings.

• Tommy Ton collaborated with Justin Wu on a movie of male models lip-synching and dancing. YES.

• Sean Lennon and his model girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, are providing the soundtrack to Rebecca Minkoff’s runway show.

• New fashion blog the Coveted is having a legal dispute with another website of the same name.

• Macy’s is expanding its contemporary offerings to lure customers under 30.

• Bulgari’s watch sales jumped 21 percent last quarter thanks to their new women's Serpenti timepiece, which launched in December.

• Coach wants to double its menswear business, and it plans to do so by offering more freestanding stores and shop-in-shops.

• GQ has announced the finalists for their annual Best New Menswear Designers in America competition, which include Patrik Ervell, Alexander Wang, and Michael Bastian.

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