Friends and family came out Tuesday night to celebrate Kenneth Cole New York’s new women’s apparel collection and advertising campaign featuring Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose. “She has truly brought the collection to life and captured the essence and the values of our brand in every possible way with her beauty, her values and her … Read more
Kenneth Cole is looking to recapture a piece of the women’s sportswear market. The brand exited the women’s sportswear business in 2020 and entered a strategic partnership last year with The Kasper Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Brands Group Holdings, to manufacture and distribute a new line of modern women’s apparel. Over the … Read more
Emily Cole has been named executive vice president, women’s creative director and product strategy, at Kenneth Cole Productions, a new role. She will direct product development for all current women’s categories. In addition, she will lead the launch of the new women’s apparel collection that will be introduced this fall under a licensing agreement with … Read more
Norma Kamali, Kenneth Cole and LoveShackFancy’s Rebecca Hessel Cohen were honored by the Fashion Institute of Technology at its annual awards gala Wednesday night. Guests at The Glasshouse event in New York City also caught the Future of Fashion runway show, which featured leading looks from the Fashion Design BFA class of 2024. Model and activist Carolyn Murphy served … Read more
Kenneth Cole is partnering with illustrator and designer Sophia Chang on a capsule to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day. As a working mom striving to find balance in her life, Chang is, literally, drawing attention to the importance of maternal mental health and aims to remind every mother to reduce their self-judgment … Read more
The Fashion Institute of Technology will honor FIT alumna Norma Kamali, Kenneth Cole and Rebecca Hessel Cohen at their Annual Awards Gala, which will take place at The Glasshouse in New York on May 8. The event begins with FIT’s Future of Fashion Runway Show, presented by Macy’s, featuring looks from the fashion design BFA … Read more
Kenneth Cole and Lingua Franca’s Rachelle Hruska MacPherson have joined forces to design a limited-edition capsule collection of cashmere sweaters that give back to the Mental Health Coalition. Both brands have championed mental health, an important cause to both Cole and MacPherson. Lingua Franca began in 2016 as a result of postpartum anxiety MacPherson was … Read more
