It was a double whammy for Adidas on Friday when Thom Browne won two more battles in his fight with the sports brand over the use of stripes on his garments. First, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said it would not overturn the jury verdict reached in January of 2023 … Read more
With the commencement gowns and university gala season nearing, The New School is gearing up to honor three pivotal figures in the fashion industry at its annual Parsons Benefit in New York City. Designer Thom Browne, advocate and luxury brand consultant Bethann Hardison and the J.Crew Group’s chief executive officer Libby Wadle will be the … Read more
MILAN — It isn’t every day that one sees a Jacques Adnet bed decked out in Thom Browne sheets and blankets by Frette in the middle of Milan’s Via Gesù. The exclusive WWD preview shoot caught the attention of tourists and Milanese alike, creating clusters of onlookers as they walked through the luxury street a few … Read more
MILAN — Closing what he considers “a stellar and milestone year,” Gildo Zegna, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group, is looking ahead to 2024 with confidence. The group, which comprises the Zegna, Thom Browne and Tom Ford brands, last year more than doubled its net profit, which reached 135.7 million euros, … Read more
Everyone has a so-L.A. moment, probably more than one. For Thom Browne, it was some time in the early 1990s while he was living here, a model/actor inching toward fashion design, when he spotted one of his idols in the bakery aisle of the Sunset Boulevard grocery store Chalet Gourmet. “It was Liza Minnelli,” he … Read more
The CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, established by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue to help emerging American design talent find continued success, on Thursday opens the application process for the 2024 program. The Fashion Fund will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. “Little did we know that when we launched the CFDA/Vogue … Read more
America might be divided into a lot of different camps, but if there was voting for the most salable and popular New York Fashion Week collection for fall 2024, Khaite‘s Catherine Holstein would win hands down. Assessing the scores of shows and takeaway trends from the week, retail executives repeatedly referenced Khaite at the top … Read more
Thom Browne is in a class by himself in American fashion. The master runway storyteller hosted a story hour to close out New York Fashion Week, with a staging of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” that was a phantasmagoria of poetry and craft, but commercial at its core. The set centered around a ginormous black … Read more
The Council of Fashion Designers of America has released the preliminary Official New York Fashion Week Schedule for the upcoming fall 2024 runway season. The New York shows take place Feb. 9 through 14. Marking Peter Do’s second show as creative director, Helmut Lang formally kicks off the American Collections Feb. 9 at noon, and … Read more
Thom Browne has been acquiring some iconic American real estate as of late, and it’s helping him build heritage into his brand. After fixing up and moving into Anne Vanderbilt’s 1920s Sutton Place home in New York City, he and partner Andrew Bolton bought a Colonial-era home in the Hudson River Valley with an equally … Read more
