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
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
MILAN — Marcolin is reaping the rewards of the strategy set in motion over the past few years, according to chief executive officer and general manager Fabrizio Curci. Commenting on the Italian eyewear company’s growth in sales and profits, Curci said “we faced these years of great complexity with a clear vision and well-defined objectives, … 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
For fall, Alessandro Sartori brought a corner of Oasi Zegna to Milan. Guests filed into the giant dark space at the former city fairgrounds where cashmere flakes in Zegna’s signature vicuna hue gently dropped from the ceiling to form a high pile in the center of the zigzagging catwalk, the sound of mountain wind blowing … Read more
