- Stuart Weitzman is expanding its boot width sizes: Fall styles will be available in sizes 4–12 and in narrow, medium, and wide.
- H&M launched a bra collection for breast cancer survivors.
- Next year’s Costume Institue exhibition and Met Gala will be framed around Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay ‘Notes on ‘Camp’.
- Walmart has announced it will be acquiring plus-size brand Eloquii.
- Everlane is eliminating virgin plastic from its business, starting with a new outerwear collection.
- Here’s Alexander Wang’s intimates collection for Uniqlo.
- Coach is phasing out fur by their fall 2019 collection.
- Former executive creative director and president of J.Crew Jenna Lyons is partnering with Turner for a weekly unscripted television series that will bring together fashion, home, and lifestyle.
- J.Crew meanwhile is running its second annual coat drive (until 25 December). The gently used coats will go to people in need across the U.S. and in seven other countries.
- Gilberto Benetton, co-founder of the eponymous clothing brand, has died at the age of 77.
- The London Victoria & Albert Museum will be staging the UK’s largest ever Christian Dior exhibition.
Fun Fashion Fact
Did you know that sneaker brand Keds, founded in 1916, “was originally supposed to be called Peds, after the Latin word for feet. When they realised that word had already been trademarked, the company decided on the name Keds” instead.
