Savvy & Co. President and CEO Ann Taylor knows sample sales; as she should. The 13 year fashion industry veteran remembers the start of sample sales in the early eighties. Sample sales, a Manhattan brainchild of an idea, started as a way for the... More »
Ford model and blossoming philanthropist Lane Carlson talks like he’s reading an article about himself out of a magazine. His sentences are planned and descriptions of his meticulous charity work reminiscent of the back of a fundraising... More »
Ann Taylor is the distinguished owner and president of Savvy & Co., an online and in-house sample sale destination. Like other sample sale sites, Savvy works directly with designers to provide discounted apparel and accessories so the average... More »
Lorena Sarbu brings us the ambience of Monaco through her expansive couture line. She continues to create and embrace a feeling of splendor through her use of certain fabrics and textures inspired by the hues of the water, beautiful gardens and... More »
In 2003, Ivy Baer Sherman visited an exhibit on a magazine called Flair that was in publication from 1950-1951 and showcased artists like Salvador Dali and Tennessee Williams in a unique publication compiled in various sizes, papers and formats. The... More »
A close colleague worked for an expensive watch company and complained of their common freebie practice. Give a celebrity a ridiculously expensive timepiece, make sure they wear it around the papa-paparazzi, watch the watch sales climb sky high.... More »
Brooks Ross knows cashmere, as he should. His mother, Ann Ross, founded Madison Avenue’s upscale destination for women’s fashion, Leggiadro, in 1985 and now has boutiques in New York, Americana Manhasset, Melrose Place, Ocean Reef Club,... More »
Rolando Santana knows dresses. He grew up surrounded by fabric (his mother was a dressmaker) and moved to New York City in 1991 to fulfill his fashion industry dream. After twenty years in the fashion capital of the world, Santana still finds... More »
Fashion designer, Yigal Azrouël, didn’t attend design school. “I didn’t know I wanted to do this!” he confessed yesterday afternoon when he stepped out of his studio for a moment to chat on his current sample sale. Inducted... More »
Renee DuMarr has “new found energy.” When I spoke with the womenswear designer early Thursday morning, she was at the hair salon dying her dark locks an easy shade of blonde. “You have to change it up,” she said with... More »
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