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One thing about being a supermodel is that if you keep yourself in shape and your looks don’t fade, you can continue to work. Christy Turlington Burns has done just that.
Athleta’s new fall campaign focuses on togetherness and motherhood as the central themes to their fall 2022 campaign. Christy Turlington Burns is front and center in this campaign which stars the supermodels’ mom, sister, niece, and sister-in-law.
This fall 2022 campaign was photographed on the beach by Cass Bird. Christy Turlington Burns is the founder of Every Mother Counts, will also take part in an exclusive Q+A with Athleta’s platform AthletaWell which will go live on August 1.
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NYFW spring 2023 calendar
The CFDA recently revealed the New York Fashion Week (NYFW) spring 2023 calendar. The six-day fashion event will begin on September 9, ending on September 14, 2022. Tom Ford will close NYFW and Proenza Schouler will open the fashion event.
This season’s calendar includes fashion brands that we are all familiar with—Carolina Herrera, Christian Siriano, Jason Wu, Coach, Michael Kors, Altuzarra, and Prabal Gurung—with the return of Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, and Area. The spring 2023 calendar will include the debuts of AnOnlyChild, Ashlyn, Heron Preston, Foo and Foo, Midnight Studios, One/Of by Patricia Voto, and Tia Adeola, as well as international brands Fendi, Marni and Cos.
“This year marks the 60th anniversary of the CFDA, and as the organizer of the official NYFW schedule, we are incredibly proud to release a lineup that reflects our founding principle: to promote American fashion on a global scale,” said CFDA CEO Steven Kolb. “We celebrate the collective excellence, diversity and resilience of our industry and look forward to a strong American collections season alongside our esteemed international guests,” as reported in fashionnetwork.com.
For this NYFW spring 2023 season, New York State Department of Health protocols are still in place. Some runway shows and presentations will continue to be presented digitally via Runway360, CFDA’s centralized digital hub and business tool to support American fashion brands’ collection releases year-round.
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Benetton’s new direction
Benetton has a new creative director. Andrea Incontri has been named the new creative director of Benetton’s women’s, men’s, and children’s collections.
“We take great pride in the fact that Andrea Incontri is joining the large Benetton ‘family’ because in him we have recognized the will, enthusiasm and research that will enable exceeding the goals that characterized the birth and history of our brand. Benetton is an industrial and creative enterprise that has contributed to increasing sensitivity towards fashion and raising awareness about many of the social issues facing Italy over the last 50 years. Incontri’s arrival will bring new energy to a success story, one of a company and brand that wish to make a generational change and guide Italian industry in these years in which a redefinition of the social role of fashion and clothing appears urgent,” comments Massimo Renon, chief executive officer of Benetton Group, as reported in prnewswire.com.
This month a new fall 2022 advertising campaign under Incontri’s leadership will launch on all of Benetton’s channels. Incontri’s first collection for Benetton will be presented during Milan Fashion Week for the spring/summer 2023 season.
“I am very honored to join Benetton,” says Incontri. “It is a company, a brand, a creative and product philosophy whose story has great meaning both to my personal and professional training and to the history of Italy as a whole, and not just in the fields of industry and fashion. I take great pride in accepting this appointment because it allows me to participate in a project of values that involves not only clothing, but a wide range of cultural issues concerning the variable aspects of modern humanism.”
—William S. Gooch
