Christina Binkley

1 month ago | voguebusiness.com | Christina Binkley

Versace’s fit with Capri Holdings, the much-hyped American luxury conglomerate, always felt to me like a square peg in a round hole — a flamboyant maker of Italian ready-to-wear and haute couture operated by a US company known for its ubiquitous sporty accessories. So rumours that Capri has put Versace up for sale after only six years feel inevitable. I hear it’s Prada Group’s acquisition, if Prada wants it, which could make sense. A return to the Milanese fold.

1 month ago | voguebusiness.com | Christina Binkley

Late in 2020, Jean-Marc Bellaiche, chief executive of France’s Printemps department stores, found himself being led by an investor towards a once-grand Art Deco building in New York City’s then-forlorn financial district. Printemps’s owner, the Qatari-backed investment fund Divine Investments SA, hoped Bellaiche would open a store in the building, which it was redeveloping with 560 luxury residences. “I’m thinking, it’s a tough market. The likelihood of doing it is low,” Bellaiche recalls.

2 months ago | vogue.co.kr | Christina Binkley

이런 패턴이 자주 반복되는 나머지 다음과 같은 의문이 들 수 있다. 왜 우리는 남성 디자이너보다 여성 디자이너를 더 가혹하게 평가할까? 지난여름 샤넬은 수석 디자이너 버지니 비아르 없이 완성한 것으로 알려진 감동 없는 꾸뛰르 컬렉션을 선보이며 비아르와의 이별을 마무리했다. 그간 비아르의 결과물은 그다지 찬사를 받지 못했다. 30년 동안 칼 라거펠트의 오른팔이었던 그녀는 6년 전 샤넬의 크리에이티브 디렉터를 맡았고, 2023년에는 16%의 매출 성장을 달성했다. 하지만 가장 완곡한 어조의 비평가들마저 비아르의 작품은 독창적이지 않다고 평가한다. 이들의 말이 맞을 수 있다. 하지만 그녀가 샤넬을 떠날 때 왜 그렇게까지 잔인한 밈, 비꼬는 논평, 야유 섞인 축하 등의 혹평이 난무했는지 궁금하지 않을 수 없다.

2 months ago | voguebusiness.com | Christina Binkley

Welcome to The American Thread, a recurring column on the fate and future of fashion in the US, written by Vogue Business editor-at-large Christina Binkley. This Autumn/Winter 2025 New York Fashion Week was a reminder of one of the ways that we believed, a decade ago, that fashion was going to change and then did not. I had a chance to ponder that while laid up on crutches after surgery for a bone spur on my right ankle. No worries, I thought.

2 months ago | voguebusiness.com | Christina Binkley

Now that the National Football League (NFL) has its own in-house fashion editor and on Sunday aired the first-ever Super Bowl red carpet arrivals show, someone should get started coordinating next year’s schedules. Super Bowl LIX happened smack dab in the middle of New York Fashion Week, which wouldn’t seem like a conflict, but these days, football and fashion are locked in a love fest aimed at boosting both industries’ audiences.