BRAND NEW: Sisley is launching a new brand — this time, for hair.
“It’s a rather emotional moment for us to introduce a new brand,” said Philippe d’Ornano, president of Sisley, during a party held in Paris on Monday evening. “The last brand we launched was by my mother and father — Sisley.” That was in 1976.
Cut to today, and the luxury beauty company will shortly roll out Hair Rituel by Sisley, whose product collection includes a revitalizing volumizing shampoo, a revitalizing smoothing shampoo, a restructuring conditioner, a regenerating hair mask and a hair-care oil.
A Hair Rituel product
Jennifer Weil
“We are really treatment specialists,” said Isabelle d’Ornano, Philippe’s mother, after the screening of a brief film to present the brand. Hair care, after all, is considered the new skin care today.
At the Hair Rituel by Sisley party.
Jennifer Weil
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PARIS — Move over, Gigi — there’s a new “It” girl in town.
Only three months after her stellar debut catwalk season, Kaia Gerber has inked her first big design collaboration, with Karl Lagerfeld, no less. The 16-year-old daughter of Cindy Crawford has worked on a capsule collection that will hit stores in September, WWD has learned exclusively.
Consisting of ready-to-wear and accessories, including footwear, sunglasses and jewelry, the line is described as blending Lagerfeld’s Parisian chic aesthetic and Gerber’s signature West Coast casual style, which has garnered her 2.7 million followers on Instagram.
The Karl Lagerfeld x Kaia collection will launch globally in Karl Lagerfeld stores, online at Karl.com and with select wholesale partners.
Lagerfeld singled out Gerber as a rising talent months before her breakout season in September, which saw her walk the catwalk for 18 brands, including Calvin Klein, Prada, Saint Laurent and Versace.
She ended it with an honor most seasoned models would die for: Opening the Chanel show for Lagerfeld, who in addition to heading his own label is creative director of Chanel and Italian fur specialist Fendi.
“When Karl first told us his idea to collaborate with Kaia, we were all excited by the incredible potential and power of bringing their
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The Bangladesh Government has formed a new wage board that will recommend a minimum salary for workers in the country’s garment industry following recent labour unrest and calls for the implementation of a more transparent and regular wage review mechanism.
Bogart Lingerie, one of the world’s largest intimate apparel exporters, is taking the next step in its commitment to manufacturing in Myanmar with the opening of a new training centre in the country at the end of this month.
Canada has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the US, highlighting a slew of measures relating to anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties it says are inconsistent with America’s WTO obligations.
Indian garment suppliers for large brands including Hugo Boss, Mothercare, Debenhams and Primark have been enforcing slave labour by holding female workers captive, an investigation has found.
A rise in sales at US clothing clothing retailers helped overall holiday season sales to the largest year-on-year increase since 2010, new figures show.
Maverick Fountain Valley City Councilman Mark McCurdy shocked the city and colleagues Monday, Jan. 15, when he announced his resignation from the city governing body in a tersely worded letter to Rob Houston, city manager.
Fountain Valley City Councilman Mark McCurdy announced his resignation.
In part, the letter read, “At this time, I find it necessary to secure employment outside the area, and having no other option, to effective immediately, step down from my position serving on the City Council.
“It has been an honor to serve the citizens of Fountain Valley and, for that I will always be grateful.”
Houston said he was surprised to receive the letter Monday morning as he had not talked to McCurdy about the possibility beforehand.
Houston said he and members of the council would discuss the matter at their regular Tuesday meeting before deciding on a course of action.
McCurdy was not immediately available for comment, but his rocky relationship with fellow council members has been well-documented.
This year, for the second straight year, McCurdy was passed over in the city’s standard mayoral rotation, in part because of his refusal to participate in the the city’s strategic planning sessions, which he felt violated the state’s open meetings law. He was also often the lone dissenting vote in matters such as tax increases and spending.
McCurdy was popular with voters, receiving the most votes in the Nov. 2014 election for City Council.
When McCurdy was bypassed for a second time for mayor in December, a number of residents spoke to support him.
Resident Leston Trueblood called the action an “unprecedented personal vendetta and collective mission to publicly bully, shame and deny Mr. McCurdy his rotation right to be mayor of our city.”
McCurdy had one stint as mayor and believed he deserved another.
“I did an outstanding job in 2013 and I want an opportunity to do that again without being passed over,” he said. “I believe this happened because I have a difference of opinion.”
