As if you didn’t have enough basics to choose from, Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock from Vena Cava plan to launch a T-shirt line. Arriving at Barneys and Shopbop in the fall, Viva Vena will include t-shirts, tank tops and dresses in organic cotton and jersey with prices under $200. So what sets the line apart from other t-shirts on the market? Prints. Look to Vena Cava’s scribbled and collaged prints for an indication of what’s to come. (Try finding that at American Apparel.)
Zac Posen for Target doesn’t hit stores until April 25, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start pining over the next designer you can actually afford. The mega-store announced Tucker by Gaby Basora would be the latest collection to grace its aisles. With its easy silhouettes and colorful prints, this collection should translate easily to a lower price point. My only request is that she recreates the Henley tunic from Spring 2010 in a print that screams summer.
If you know anything about Karl Lagerfeld, chances are you know he loves Coke. As in the soft drink. (The fashion genius claimed to have lost 90 pounds living on Diet Coke and vegetables, and now has the drink delivered on a silver platter.) The two are getting even closer, as Lagerfeld’s black and white silhouette appears on a collection of limited edition Diet Coke bottles. They cost $5 each, and are available at Galeries Lafayette and Colette in Paris. For those of you not making a trip to the city of lights anytime soon, not to worry. We have the Internet.
To anyone still wearing that little moose logo, you may want to reconsider. Corporate Responsibility magazine just “blacklisted” Abercrombie onto the worst company list (based on transparency of company procedures). Needless to say, Abercrombie hasn’t been very good at hiding anything about itself. Just look to its decision to give CEO Mike Jeffries $4 million to limit his joyrides on the company jet. What’s a man going to do with money if he can’t fly to Tahiti? Hire more attractive, shirtless employees? Oh wait.
