Phyllis Pressman, who was part of the family that revolutionized retail by making Barneys New York as much a happening as a place of commerce, died on April 16 at the age of 95. Pressman was under hospice care at her home in Palm Beach, Fla., at the time of her death, according to her … Read more
Price increases on high-end handbags have become public fodder that rivals the latest celebrity divorce scandal. PurseBop, an online forum for luxury collectors, has been publishing like-for-like data on bag prices for 11 years, but those articles have seen a “huge surge in readership lately,” said founder Monika Arora. “Everyone wants to know what they’re … Read more
HIGHER LOVE: Fashion and retail maverick Rei Kawakubo — whose mindset for her latest Comme des Garçons fashion show was “anger against everything in the world, especially against myself” — is not the sort to talk about luxury, brand elevation or leather goods merchandising. And yet, later this week, the Comme des Garçons flagship store … Read more
