FASHION Magazine
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Anthropologie introduces “Made in Kind” designer collaborations featuring Karen Walker, Samantha Pleet and more!
Anthropologie is the latest to join the designer collab trend with its own assembly of partnerships, only this time bringing established, lesser known, and first-time designers together in a curatorial series to be showcased online as well as in-store, similar to a gallery presentation.
The rolling collaborations, presented under the name “Made in Kind,” will launch this Thursday, and will feature a hodgepodge of designers: Karen Walker, Gregory Parkinson, John Patrick, Samantha Pleet, Charlotte Linton, Pipit , Rachel Rose and Place Nationale. While some designers will be available at Canadian stores such as Pipit (Ontario), Charlotte Linton (Vancouver) and Samantha Pleet (Toronto), all the collections can be scooped up online.
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Fashion news: McQueen’s maple leaf scarf, Alexander Wang show to stream in Times Square and SJP in TO
A limited edition scarf by Alexander McQueen has been selling quickly at Holt Renfrew. The $450 scarf featured McQueen’s signature skulls adorned in red maple leaves—a tribute to the 2010 Olympics. In a ghoulish bit of profiteering, someone is selling one of the scarves–purchased just yesterday–for $2,000 on Kijiji. [The Globe and Mail]
Sarah Jessica Parker is heading to Toronto in her official capacity as Halston president and chief creative officer, here for a party at The Room, the high-end section of the Bay’s Queen Street location. [Toronto Life]
Alexander Wang will be live streaming his Fall 2010 show to a billboard in Times Square. If you’re not in New York or don’t want to stand in the cold, you can also watch the stream on SHOWstudio.com tomorrow at 5 p.m. [WWD]