Two decades ago, a small group of young women, leaders in the snowboarding industry, including Label Networks’ Senior Vice President, Kathleen Gasperini, turned the tragic loss of a friend to breast cancer into a positive new movement called Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC). Launching with huge snowboarding and music festivals, the events attracted girls and guys […]
Winter of 2016 marks the 20th Anniversary for Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC), and the season is shaping-up with a variety of unique celebration events. To start, is the first stop of a photo and art exhibition, called “20 Most Iconic Snowboarding Image of All Time,” and a commemorative exhibition tracing the herstory of B4BC […]
Yesterday in London, Hannah Jinkins was announced as the winner of the H&M Design Award 2016. Jinkins, a graduate from the Royal College of Art, London, was selected from eight finalists by an international jury that included amongst others Kate Bosworth, Olivier Rousteing and Nick Knight. As the H&M Design Award winner, Jinkins receives a […]
Parsons School of Design has a new dean of fashion, Burak Cakmak, who is known for his work as sustainability director for Kering’s Gucci and Stella McCartney, and before that, the Gap. Parsons, which is known as a leader in fashion design education, is also where famous designers such as Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, and […]
Rhianna has been brought on board the booming sock company Stance in a 3-year deal as a contributing creative director. Yesterday, the company launched two of Rhianna’s designs on their site, with the full Rhianna/Stance collection coming out this Fall which will include 18 styles including a thigh-high style—a first for Stance and probably a […]
After 12 years of designing for Billabong, Mandy Fry has left to join a new position at Volcom as Vice President of Women’s—a division they hope to strengthen in the coming years. This announcement, which came yesterday, May 16, 2013, from Volcom, is another blow to beleaguered Billabong which is going through its own series […]
Upscale urban cycling, fixie, and cruiser sportswear continues to gain traction as a growing movement among those choosing bikes for transportation and thus creating the need for savvy cycle-wear. The movement has been growing in various niche industries, especially in boutique bike stores, but when Levi Strauss launched their NanoSphere Commuter collection structured and made […]
Designs by Shepard Fairey and Studio Makes sense that Shepard Fairey and his studio would be the ones behind the highly anticipated Russel Brand show called Brand X. Katy Perry divorce aside, Russel Brand is a smart guy, albeit with hang-ups. His commentary, as seen in a variety of magazines recently, including an incredibly insightful […]
Billabong’s Design for Humanity event over the past 5 years has been one extraordinary event, taking place in a “NYC” backlot in Paramount Studios in Hollywood featuring an array of bands, a runaway show of their upcoming collection, and a new beneficiary from art auction and ticket sales proceeds. However the announcement of the 6th […]
On the day that David Beckham’s briefs collection debuts in London’s flagship H&M and just a week after financial reports of H&M’s 15.3% drop in profits in Q4, H&M announced their winner in their new H&M Design Awards 2012 as Stine Riis, a 28-year-old grad student from London College of fashion. Like H&M’s ongoing designer […]