Word: sportswear
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...Fashion is no longer regional, and the notion of American sportswear is no longer valid, nor does it look current," says Robert Burke, a luxury consultant. "I've seen shows this week that could easily have taken place in Paris or Milan." More and more, it is the itinerant lifestyles of multinational designers--many of whom frequently travel around the world to visit factories, stores and suppliers--and the global reach of the Internet that inspire the clothes they send down the runway...
...Like Posen, Francisco Costa, the Brazilian designer who several years ago took over for Calvin Klein when he retired, has mastered a sleek and chic kind of casual style. As far as continuing the sensibility of Klein, it works. To the simple sportswear shapes, Costa brings a refined sense of color and an appreciation for innovative fabrics. He opened the show with a passage of skinny, high-waisted pants in shades of chalk, pale pink and putty and then punctuated a crisp, natural palette with two drop-dead simple organza T-shirt dresses in grass green and - what else...
...children's sweater company out of a spare bedroom in her Lexington, Mass., home and marketing her designs online instead of paying the rent on a bricks-and-mortar boutique. An added perk: she's deep-sixed the 2-hr. daily commute she had when she worked for a sportswear firm in downtown Boston...
...after working for other clothing designers and noticing a gap in the market for time-challenged career moms like herself, Belgian-born Liz Claiborne combined her flair for both and started Liz Claiborne Inc. In the '70s and '80s, her work outfits and sportswear were a revolution--sleek, versatile, affordable and, above all, easy. Asked how she turned her original 35-piece collection into a $5 billion powerhouse--and the first FORTUNE 500 company founded by a woman--Claiborne said, "I listened to the customer...
...Claiborne, the designer who helped invent American sportswear in the 1970s and who dressed legions of American women headed off to work in that decade died yesterday of cancer at age 78. Claiborne, who founded Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976, introduced the concept of clean cut career clothing to what is known as the bridge market in department stores, that is the fashion lines between designer and mass markets...