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Juicy Couture and Emi Jay are teaming up to create a hair accessories collection for the holidays that blends both brands’ early Aughts aesthetics.
The fashion label and hair accessories brand, respectively, are partnering on a collaboration for the holiday season. The 10-piece hair accessories collection is infused with early Aughts nostalgia, which are hallmarks of both companies.
“In the last year, we’ve really just as a whole embodied a lot of early 2000s trends,” explained Emi Jay founder Julianne Goldmark. “A lot of girls were gravitating toward color coming out of quarantine, funkier hairstyles and brighter and bolder pieces. With a lot of our campaign imagery over the last year, we did pull a lot of early 2000s inspiration and Juicy [Couture] kind of picks up on that. They felt like OG Juicy [Couture] was so true to current day Emi Jay. We felt there was such a tie between the two brands.”
To design the collection, Emi Jay looked to early 2000s romantic comedies and “It” girls of that era, such as Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Hilary Duff. The brand also looked at archival pieces and campaigns from Juicy Couture to reference the fashion brand’s heritage.
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Like last year, Black Friday 2021 is looking different.
Several major retailers are again starting the Black Friday shopping event early, with many sales periods starting at the beginning of November. This move is largely due to the ongoing pandemic, with retailers responding to supply chain blockages and product shortages, and offering customers more time to do their holiday shopping. Many retailers are also continuing last year’s practice of closing its stores on Thanksgiving as a way to thank its associates and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Macy’s and others have already revealed their Black Friday shopping events, with others slated to make their announcements in the next few weeks.
Here, WWD rounds up how several major retailers are doing Black Friday 2021. Read on for more.
This article will be updated as retailers announce their Black Friday initiatives.
Amazon
Amazon is continuing its tradition of offering a longer holiday sales period that started at the beginning of October. The deals are available on Amazon’s “Epic Deals” page and spans across virtually all its categories, including fashion, beauty, home, electronics and more.
Throughout October and November, Amazon will drop deeper deals on select merchandise. It is currently amid its Holiday Beauty
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Nike is reportedly creating a line with LeBron James and Liverpool F.C.
This month, Fenway Sports Group chairman Tom Werner revealed that Nike is collaborating with the Los Angeles Lakers forward and the English Premier League football club to create a number of products.
Fenway Sports Group is the parent company of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and Liverpool. The group has been the sole global marketer of James’ rights since 2011, and within that deal, the basketball player was granted a minority stake in Liverpool.
“We’re doing a product line with LeBron and Liverpool,” Werner said, according to The Boston Globe. “Nike is creating seven or eight products that connect LeBron with soccer. I don’t know specifics yet, but they’re going to create seven or eight products that rival the connection that Michael Jordan has with Nike.”
LeBron’s set for a collab with Liverpool 🤝 @brfootball pic.twitter.com/1J5z3fCXcR
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 24, 2021
In March, James joined FSG as a partner, which made him part-owner of its subsidiaries, including the Red Sox, Roush Fenway Racing, New England Sports Network and Liverpool, which he already owned a 2 percent stake in.
The investment made James and his business partner Maverick Carter the company’s first Black
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Balenciaga is launching its lineup for the coming fall with an accompanying video.
The design house will debut its fall 2022 collection, called “The Lost Tape/The Show That Never Happened,” with a video of the same name. The launch will take place on Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. CET, alongside a look book of the collection.
News of the video’s release comes after the Paris-based Spanish fashion house staged an event in Shanghai, after Chinese clients were unable to travel to Paris for Balenciaga’s return to haute couture in July.
It marked the first time Balenciaga held an event in mainland China, and also the first time the couture collection has been shown outside of Paris, reflecting the strategic importance of the territory. According to its chief executive officer Cédric Charbit, the label has 39 stores in China and a strong following among fashion-conscious consumers there.
“It’s a strong signal,” Charbit told WWD. “The influence of China is everywhere — aesthetically, economically, culturally and in fashion — so it was important for us to be present in this market with the top of the pyramid in terms of Balenciaga’s offer.”
The brand is riding a hot streak after registering a daily record for sales worldwide
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The hype surrounding Taylor Swift’s new “Red (Taylor’s Version)” album isn’t slowing down.
The Grammy-winning musician’s recently released album, which is a rerelease of the original “Red” album that debuted in 2012, has caused a spike in Google searches for specific fashion and beauty items related to it.
According to Google, searches for “Taylor Swift red scarf meaning” spiked by 1,400 percent. This search refers to the red scarf Swift is seen wearing on the “Red (Taylor’s Version)” album art, as well as the scarf the singer mentions in her hit song “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which set a new record for the longest song to appear on and top the hot 100 ranking.
Swift additionally directed a short film for the song starring “Stranger Things” actress Sadie Sink and “Teen Wolf” actor Dylan O’Brien. The short film has more than 45 million views on YouTube. Searches for both stars reached an all-time high this month, according to the search engine.
Swift’s impact extended to beauty, with searches for “what red lipstick does Taylor Swift wear” increasing by 800 percent. Swift, who has long been a fan of red lipstick and has regularly worn the color during her press appearances for the
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The 2021 holiday shopping season is expected to be more robust in comparison to last year’s, with retailers offering longer sales periods and consumers expected to spend at pre-pandemic levels.
Although the 2021 holiday shopping season is being impacted by supply chain and shipping delays, consumer spending is expected to increase. A report by Accenture shows that consumers are budgeting an average of $598 for holiday shopping this season, compared to $539 last year. The report also shows that comfort levels with in-store shopping have risen from last year, with more than half of respondents planning to do their holiday shopping in-store.
While retailers are offering longer sales periods — with many major Black Friday sales having started at the beginning of the month — savings overall are expected to be lower than usual. According to a report from Adobe, consumers should expect smaller discounts on major gifting categories like apparel, electronics, appliances, toys and more, with goods 3 percent more expensive than last year. This price increase can be attributed to supply chain disruptions.
To navigate the changes of this holiday season, WWD spoke with three retail experts on what categories customers can expect the highest — and lowest — savings on
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The moment Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani crosses her heart and swears to “Father, son and House of Gucci,” director Ridley Scott struck a kind of Hollywood gold.
Just from the film trailers alone, the line of dialogue has already entered the pop culture pantheon of camp — like in “Valley of the Dolls”: “I have to get up at five o’clock in the morning and sparkle, Neely, sparkle!” Or from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”: “Dammit, Janet, I love you.”
There are bootleg T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase for sale on the internet and “House of Gucci” doesn’t even open in theaters until Wednesday.
Media reviews of the film were embargoed until today, but reactions on social media have been mixed. Some people who have seen advance screenings have called it an amusing satire. And Scott has said that’s what he was going for — satire. Other viewers have deemed it overstuffed and unfocused, while a few have praised it as a masterpiece, sparking early buzz for Gaga and Driver in the Oscars race.
Jared Leto stars as Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci.”
To me, it was a telenovela but not quite enough of one, with the actors committing to satire
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