Armani will this month launch his latest sunglass venture, a series of eyewear for A/X Armani Exchange, in the latest example of his ambitions for this line.
The launch tightens the links between Armani and Gruppo Safilo, the Italian eyewear giant that produces eye glasses for Emporio Armani and the designer’s signature collection.
The A/X collection comes three years after Armani switched licensors in this sector. Until then, Armani eyewear had been manufactured by Safilo’s major rival Luxottica. However, determined to impose a strict distribution of his eyewear, Armani discontinued his agreement with Luxottica, after that company began retailing his shades and glasses in Sunglass Hut, the large US chain that it owns.
Marc Jacobs' Ex a Label Whore?
Marc Jacobs' (ex?) bf Jason Preston has a tattoo on his arm of the Marc Jacobs logo. Heartwarming or labelwhorey? Well, considering that Preston has a history of being a regular, non-label whore, maybe the latter.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. Logan Pearsall Smith
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp
Fashion is made to become unfashionable. Coco Chanel
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Montaigne
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. Henry David Thoreau
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. John Locke
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. David Bailey
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. David Mamet
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. Elsa Schiaparelli
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli
