Tom Ford Becomes Chairman of Council of Fashion Designers of America

CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF FASHION DESIGNERS OF AMERICA DIANE VON FURSTENBERG AND INCOMING CHAIRMAN TOM FORD.

Tom Ford Becomes Chairman of Council of Fashion Designers of America

The award-winning fashion designer, film director, screenwriter, and film producer Tom Ford will succeed current Chairwoman Diane von Furstenberg effective June 2019, writes the CFDA.

The Texas-born designer introduced a heady combination of glamour and sensual desire into American fashion.. Ford eagerly embraced smart women with sex appeal believing that women could be both.

Victoria's Secret To Close 53 Stores in 2019 As Global Auto Sales Also Drop In Major Spending Shifts

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Victoria's Secret To Close 53 Stores in 2019 As Global Auto Sales Also Drop In Major Spending Shifts

American teenagers no longer hang out at the mall like generations past. Their lives are far more complex and demanding; then add in the high priority of digital culture and online shopping in their lives. Their fashion fav brands often aren’t even sold in America’s shopping malls.

Last week was a brutal one for American retailers. L Brands made the decision to close 53 Victoria’s Secret stores in North America. Gap Inc. announced that it will close 230 stores in the next two years. J.C. Penney weighed in with 18 new department store closures. Earlier in February Payless announced the closure of 2,500 in America.

It’s not all bad news. Planet Fitness Chief Executive officer Chris Rondeau said his business is immune to e-commerce’s effects on brick-and-mortar, making it a good mall tenant, writes Business of Fashion.

“Our business can’t be Amazoned. We’re un-Amazonable,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “We do about 5,000 workouts per gym per week, about 8 million workouts a week in the U.S., so look at how much traffic we drive to these centers every day. And the majority of those visits are Monday through Wednesday; most retailers are busy on the weekends, so we’re a great co-tenant for these retailers to drive that traffic.”

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Tanzania's Southern Selous Game Reserve Is An Unexplored Safari Adventure Waiting For Us

Tanzania's Southern Selous Game Reserve Is An Unexplored Safari Adventure Waiting For Us

The Serengeti's wildlife sanctuary is a vast expanse over 5,700 square miles and its otherworldly animal migration is one of the New Wonders of the World, writes Vogue.com. According to the Tanzania Tourist Board, nearly 1.3 million people visit the country annually, with about two-thirds of visitors heading for the Serengeti. The others stick close to the north—the Ngorongoro Crater, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Lake Manyara—and also the island of Zanzibar.

This reality leaves the southern half of Tanzania perhaps the best-kept Safari secret with untouched terrain and the Selous Game Reserve, twice the size of the Serengeti. 

Comparing the two, Ruaha houses 10 percent of the planet’s lion population, as well as one of the largest elephant populations on our planet. Selous is home to the world’s largest population of wild dogs, is nicknamed Giraffe Park because of the density of these long-necks animals, and is home to some of Tanzania's last remaining black rhinos. Not only is nature's extraordinary wildlife abundant, but seeing it is an almost solo experience. 

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Fanny Latour-Lambert Flashes Masha Skokova For Vogue Russia November 2017

Fanny Latour-Lambert Flashes Masha Skokova For Vogue Russia November 2017

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Richard Leakey Plans Libeskind-Designed 'Cathedra' Honoring Human Evolution In Lake Turkana

Richard Leakey Plans Libeskind-Designed 'Cathedra' Honoring Human Evolution In Lake Turkana

Renowned Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey has commissioned a new museum in the desert near Lake Turkana. Designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, 'the cathedra' will be constructed at 400 miles north of Kenya's capital in Nairobi,  near the border with Ethiopia. 

It's in this region that the Leakey family and their decades old teams have uncovered many of the best-preserved fossils of humanity's ancient ancestors, some dated to 4 million years ago.

Lake Turkana is home to all the inspirations behind Anne of Carversville's Jewelry & Gift Collection, including Ethiopia's Omo Valley people, who live at the northern tip of the lake. It's the world's largest permanent desert lake and by volume the world's fourth-largest salt lake. 

We have many connections to LakeTurkana and Africa's Rift Valley both psychically and in our commitment to elephant conservation and the use of woolly mammoth bones in our jewelry. It's believed that woolly mammoths migrated out of the Rift Valley towards cooler climates and reliable water sources. 

Richard Leakey, the 72-year-old Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) chairman took Polish-American designer Daniel Libeskind to Lake Turkana to explore the project, now that financing has been secured for the design phase of the project. "Can we do something here that will absolutely stand-alone and wow?" Leakey asked the master planner of New York's post-September 11 World Trade Center redevelopment.

His vision is for a museum that is a "very creative" experience and not a fancy house for fossils. A museum pedigree is reason for eliminating people, not recruiting them for the project. The Kenyan powerhouse wants people from Silicon Valley or creative advertising professionals. "Why don't we have a room you come in to wearing a 3D headset and sit quietly in the middle of a band of Homo erectus moving all around you? That's much more interesting than a skeleton of Turkana Boy behind glass."

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Cora Emmanuel Is Eclectic Beauty In Eric Josjo Images For Elle Sweden May 2016

Cora Emmanuel Is Eclectic Beauty In Eric Josjo Images For Elle Sweden May 2016

Gisele Bundchen By Patrick Demarchelier For Vogue Australia January 2015

Gisele Bundchen By Patrick Demarchelier For Vogue Australia January 2015

Supermodel, supermom, superwife Gisele Bundchen makes a casual but glittering appearance in the January issue of Vogue Australia, snapped in studio by Patrick Demarchelier.

Gisele appears with Baz Luhrmann, who was totally besotted with the superwoman as a guest in her first interview with the designer of Barney’s New York Holiday 2014 windows. Baz Luhrmann has a ‘Bedazzled’ holiday shop at Barney’s. Take a look.

Flowers, Foliage & Fabulous Finds Inspired By Arved Colvin-Smith For London's Sunday Times

Flowers, Foliage & Fabulous Finds Inspired By Arved Colvin-Smith For London’s Sunday Times

Foodies Melissa & Jasmine Hemsley Ace 'The Art of Eating Well'

Vogue’s Anna Wintour and Sally SingerVogue.com lavishes compliments on London-based sisters Melissa Hemsley and Jasmine Hemsley, authors of celebrated food consultants and food activists, authors of   ‘The Art of Eating Well’.

Vogue’s Sally Singer was so intrigued with The Art of Eating Well, that she decided to eat in a Hemsley and Hemsley manner during Fashion Week’s Spring 2015 collections.

Check out Melissa’s and Jasmine’s regular food blog at Vogue UK.

Their food philosophy—which has already received acclaim in such publications as British Vogue, The Sunday Telegraph, Glamour, The Sunday Times, and Stylist—is simple: changing the way you eat doesn’t have to involve deprivation, but can be enjoyed every day, at home, at work, with family and friends, or eating out. The Art of Eating Well is chock full of the Hemsleys’ recipes, knowledge, and advice on making the switch to a delicious, healthy, and satisfying diet. The Art of Eating Well is a cookbook with exciting and inventive recipes that are so delicious you forget that the premise is health and nourishment.

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Porter Magazine Carves Out New Territory For Luxury Magazine Readers

Porter Magazine Carves Out New Territory For Luxury Magazine Readers

Net-a-Porter chairman Natalie Massenet and colleague, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK Lucy Yeomans have launched Porter as a content rich, thinking woman’s magazine. Emotion counts too, with Porter’s intention to not only address how to wear a given dress, but also how you feel wearing it.

The Telegraph writes that 50 top-tier fashion and luxury advertisers appear in the first issue, with more promised in the next. Many wonder why a successful online business in a high-tech world would turn to a glossy print magazine.

Net-A-Porter’s magic 6 million, says (publishing director Tess) Macleod Smith at this point, tend to be avid consumers of the famous old fashion magazines. “Print is me-time,” she says. And Porter, resumes Massenet, is seen as “the cherry on the icing on the cake” of the Net-A-Porter model. “Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is. Just because we are disrupting print, changing it, doesn’t mean we don’t love it.”

With a features, rather than fashion background, Yeomans likes articles about travel, international relations, war and business. The debut issue features an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario, who found herself kidnapped in Libya in 2011.

Adddario is a recipient of the US MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Genius’ grant for her work documenting conflict and how it impacts women in particular. The photojournalist was also kidnapped in Iraq in 2004.

Porter will be distributed in 60 countries and published in American English.

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GlamTribale Now Open At Stainton’s 810 Asbury Avenue In Ocean City, NJ

Eye: Dover Street Market NYC | Beyoncé At Walmart | Natalie Massenett Of Net-A-Porter

Eye: Dover Street Market NYC | Beyoncé At Walmart | Natalie Massenett Of Net-A-Porter

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