Well, it’s all over! Last night a designer on Project Runway All Stars Season 2 was crowned worthy of the title and beyond amazing prize. With little time to rest, the last three remaining designers are challenged to create runway ready looks and compose a runway show in only four days. Each designer got to choose the themes of their [...]

Just a week until the grand finale, our four Project Runway All Star designers compete against one another in the most important challenge of the season. The theme of the week is Haute Couture and Carolyn sends the designers to where better than Paris, France! The designers begin their Parisian journey with a private tour of the House of Valentino [...]

Hermés Goes For Leather Hermés Cuirs Précieux, Hermés International’s tannery division, has bought French calf leather specialist Tannerie d’Annonay. The price was undisclosed but is part of Hermés’s strategy to integrate suppliers into the company. A Hermés house representative states, ““This acquisition is in line with the strategy of the Hermès Group in the preservation and the development of its [...]

At the start of a new year, Project Runway All Stars has dwindled down to the last four designers, Joshua, Anthony Ryan, Emilio, and the only woman standing, Uli. The season has flown by and the competition is getting tougher. This week, PR was feeling philanthropic and took a trip to the Intrepid to ask designers to create looks for [...]

Gucci Goes Manga Get ready for some graphic window displays in Gucci stores around the world! Gucci had teamed up with Japanese manga artist, Hironhiko Araki to create a unique window presentation for the brands cruise collection. For those of us less knowledgable in Japanese culture, manga are Japanese comics that conform to a specific style. The window will be [...]

The Project Runway All Stars Season 2 competition is down to 5 designers as the final runway quickly approaches. This week was the ever important ready-to-wear challenge featuring one of the biggest success stories, Elie Tahari. Designers fought to have their design manufactured and sold in every Tahari store and online, working with a price point of between $500 and [...]

Retailers Rely on Heavy Sales to Lure Customers Due to the economy and the snow, the holiday season has been a disappointment for retailers thus far. The stock market is down for most, if not all retail stores this season. Instead of giving in to a bad season, many retailers are pushing back to capture the bargain-hunters attention with amazingly [...]

Patriarch Partners is relaunching the Jane Cosmetics brand with the new Spring 2013 collection. The collection will be available online in January and sold in drugstores across the country in March. The strategy is to gain a new following of fans while keeping the brand’s devotees happy. The new collection will include highly pigmented shades of long lasting Cream Eye [...]

  Thank goodness for chunky heels for spring 2013. Instead of teetering around on deadly stilettos, our ankles can sit comfortably on a stacked thick heel. The trend was popular in September Fashion Week as designers like Carven, Chanel, and Erdem nodded to a vintage feel and kept ankles safe from harm. Here are a few chunky heels available to [...]

With six contestants remaining, no one is safe this week in Project Runway All Stars. Carolyn Murphy calls for a 1920‘s inspire fashion face-off. This week was a game changer as opponents compete directly against each other in pairs under the themes of “Social Soriee”, “Garden Party”, and “After Hour Speakeasy.” Joshua and Emilio are paired together along with Anthony [...]