Arden Hires Banker to Explore Options

The fashion brand has pledged to donate 600,000 euros to the Florence museum.

The two-level store, located in the stylish Aoyama area, opened last month and will share a building with a yet-to-be-opened Alexander McQueen store.

Succeeds Britton Russell, who will leave the firm on June 13.

Here, highlights from the senior collections at the Rhode Island School of Design.

In the January-to-March period, net revenues at the brand jumped 12.2 percent.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule in its review of the Fur Products Name Guide, handing a victory to the fur and retail industry.

The beauty company is “exploring potential strategic alternatives.”

The charity, which aims to end mother-to-child HIV transmissions by 2015, was marking its partnership with Shopbop.com.

Operating expenses down 4.6 percent as revenues retreat 0.7 percent.

The designer has made a multimillion-dollar donation to Royal Marsden Hospital, the biggest and most comprehensive cancer center in Europe.

There’s nothing subtle about the latest fur coats as designers take a bolder-is-better approach with graphic patterns and vivid colors.

While traffic got off to a slow start, retailers were busy writing orders.

Thepfw.com will be populated entirely with original content, from editorials to musings on women in business, fashion and, of course, men.

The May 22 benefit will stage a red-themed fashion show of gowns created for the occasion.

The factory will launch with a team of around 50 trained leather makers and will be led by Paloma Vega-Perez, formerly of Louis Vuitton.

The 13-year veteran of Yankee Candle began at C. Wonder this month.

The Chambre Syndicale elected the labels guest members of the couture calendar at a meeting of its supervisory board on May 6.

The new Z Zegna lines will be designed by a creative team headed by former Z Zegna creative director Paul Surridge and Murray Scallon.

In April, the indie beauty boutique and salon closed a Los Angeles outpost due to its lease ending.

Presented by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, the ceremony was followed by a dinner in the Great Hall on Ellis Island.

Vanity Fair is returning to the festival after sitting out last year’s edition, which coincided with the launch of the French edition of the title.

The group’s ceo and cofounder Andrea Tessitore received an award from the president of the magazine’s scientific committee, politician Romano Prodi, on Sunday.