Sarah Jessica Parker launching shoe collection with Blahnik exec
Sarah Jessica Parker, who brought the shoe-loving Carrie Bradshaw to life on “Sex and the City,” is reverting to type: She is launching a shoe collection in collaboration with George Malkemus, longtime head of Manolo Blahnik. “In a silly way, I think it’s what people have expected of me,” Parker, who also recently traveled to the Philippines for a Shoe Mart opening, told Vogue. Parker’s new line is to go on sale, exclusively at Nordstrom, early next year. [Vogue]
Hollywood legend Esther Williams, who died Thursday, was a swimming star, but also a style icon, reports fashion critic Booth Moore, and she had a lot to do with popularizing the swimsuits made by Cole of California. [Los Angeles Times]
There will be no bathing beauties strutting about in bikinis at the next Miss World competition, to be held in Indonesia. Instead the contestants are to wear sarongs in the swimsuit portion of the competition, after pressure from conservative Muslim groups, the contest’s local organizer said. The contest is to take place in locations in Bali and Jakarta. [ABC News]
Hot boy band One Direction plans to launch its first fragrance this fall. The women’s scent, called Our Time, is described as a blend of pink grapefruit, berries, jasmine petals and musk. [The Cut]
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) told the U.S. retail industry to “get its act together” on Thursday at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing on worker safety and labor issues in Bangladesh. For the most part, the American retail industry has been reluctant to sign a European agreement to improve safety and worker compensation in the country, which has been the scene of a number of tragic plant accidents, including the collapse of a garment factory in Rana Plaza in April. [WWD] (Subscription required.)
Fashion designer James Daugherty, who got his start sketching for famed costume designer Edith Head and went on to become one of the first African Americans to show on Seventh Avenue, has died at age 85. [WWD] (Subscription required.)
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