Germany is on its way to one-upping France’s recent ban on airbrushing. To further combat unhealthy and unrealistic standards of beauty in the public media, the country’s most popular glossy, Brigitte, is planning to ban professional models from its pages in favor of “real women.” So, like the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign stars, in challenging [...]

Until now, boutique owners Paul Birardi and Eddy Chai have enjoyed a reputation among the downtown fashion set as a duo with a collectively good eye for trends and an ability to know what their customers want. Odin, their men’s store in Nolita (its women’s equivalent, Pas de Deux, is in the East Village), stocks [...]

It appears as though Comme des Garçons will follow its successful collaborative fragrance venture with Stephen Jones by lending its olfactory expertise to—wait for it—one Daphne Guinness. We reported on the prospect of the heiress’ celebrity-fragrance-to-end-all-celebrity-fragrances a few months back and WWD filled in the details this morning. Made in conjunction with Givaudan perfumer Antoine [...]

This month, Comme des Garçons is dabbling in the existential. Working off the premise that words, like fragrance, convey messages that can be interpreted and experienced in a variety of different ways, the reliably avant-garde perfume division of Rei Kawakubo’s design house has spoken, and its holiday message is clear: Peace, Love, and Freedom. The [...]

At last night’s launch party for the Six Scents Fragrance Initiative: Series One, a brigade of black-boots-wearing scenesters braved the line that quickly formed outside the New Museum on the Bowery. Sure, there were the six different designer-collaboration fragrances on view for looking and testing; free, pink drink specials (vodka with a mélange of different [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With all he buzz surrounding Comme des Garcons soon-to-arrive collection for H&M, it’s definitely possible that another Rei Kawakubo collaboration has gone under your radar. That would be the most recent addition to the Comme des Garcons fragrance family, a new scent produced by the brand’s olfactory brain trust and directed by Stephen Jones. The [...]