Rebecca Taylor Does Swimwear With Giejo

Rebecca Taylor never designed swimwear, but always felt there was something lacking in the market. Until she saw Giejo’s mix-and-match bikini tops and bottoms. Taylor got together with Giejo’s creator, Gabby Sabharwal and the two have collaborated on a swimwear capsule, Rebecca Taylor X Giejo Swim, available in May in Taylor’s stores and rebeccataylor.com. Giejo is known for its figure-flattering silhouettes and fashion-forward prints. Taylor, who has a modern, feminine aesthetic, created ivory and blush paisley patterns, bold leopard prints and fuchsia florals inspired by dresses her mother wore in the Seventies for four of Sabharwal’s bikini styles. Each print is available in two colorways. The collection will retail for $100 to $125 per piece. “I love the idea behind interchangeable and multifunctional swim pieces that you can customize to your body type,” Taylor said. “When designing, my customer is always top of mind and I wanted to offer a capsule collection that she can have fun with while still feeling confident. When I go to the swimwear departments in department stores, there’s definitely room for a more contemporary voice in swimwear.” Sabharwal first met Taylor several years ago when she was working for the public relations company that produces Taylor’s runway shows. “Rebecca

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Chicago’s Hot Neighborhood: Logan Square

CHICAGO — Susan Flaga witnessed her neighborhood’s evolution by looking out the window of her hair salon. Sparrow, a sophisticated yet unassuming salon at 2545 North Milwaukee Avenue, whose clients include everyone from blogger Tavi Gevinson to musicians Tom Krell of How To Dress Well and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to the Creatures of the Wind designers, is steps away from the now-shuttered Milshire Hotel, at 2525 North Milwaukee Avenue. “The foot traffic changed. When we started construction on Sparrow, it was people who lived at the Milshire, which was a vagrant hotel. And now, the crowd is just younger and stylish,” said Flaga, who opened the salon in 2009 with her partner Bathsheba Nemerovski. At that time, Logan Square wasn’t the in-demand locale it is today — Redfin named it the eighth hottest neighborhood in the country in 2013 and the national real estate broker said its appeal shows no signs of slowing. “Sheba and I both lived here and we both didn’t want to commute anymore. I had an intuition that it was going to be a good idea,” Flaga said. Logan Square’s tree-lined boulevards, turn-of-the-century mansions, acclaimed eateries like the gastro pub Longman & Eagle, craft cocktail lounge Billy Sunday and Lula Café

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Eichner’s Eye: My 50th Birthday Bash

WWD photographer Steve Eichner lives to tell the tales from his 50th birthday party and after party. 42 West Club, New York 6:36 p.m.: Latex pants, harness and bullwhip. I’m channeling my inner Peter Marino as I get dressed for my 50th birthday party. The theme? “50 Shades of Steve.” 6:47 p.m.: Whips and chains over there by the photo booth? Check. Guest list? Check. Agency photographers are in place on the red carpet, let’s get some music going, 13 minutes until doors open. I scream, running around frantically making sure everything is set: “Where are the go-go dancers?” 6:49 p.m.: I run down to the dressing room and give the dancers their instructions for the evening. Notice a cool shot of my reflection in the mirror with the dancers preparing. Click, click. 7:00 p.m.: “The doors are open. Let the games begin!” 7:07 p.m.: “Sorry I’m a bit late.” My DJ NappyG arrives. I run him up to the booth. 7:37 p.m.: I do an impromptu photo shoot of my girlfriend Josie on a black shiny wall. A crowd gathers around to watch. Red latex minidress, red wig, red thigh-high boots, all tied together with red rope. “50 shades of red,” I giggle as I snap

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London Fashion Week to Celebrate ‘Minnie Style’

MINNIE MOUSE IN LONDON: Alongside the action at London Fashion Week’s spring shows in September, the British Fashion Council is set to support a celebration of a certain famous cartoon mouse’s style off the runway. “Minnie Style,” a photographic exhibition to be held at London Fashion Week, will chart how the character has served as a style influencer over the years. Justine Finch, director of franchise for Walt Disney Company U.K., pointed to moments such as Madonna shot by Herb Ritts wearing a pair of Minnie Mouse ears, or the character appearing on the cover of Love Magazine’s fall 2013 issue, while models such as Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger wore Minnie Mouse ears created by designers on alternative covers of the same edition. And Jagger will also have a hand in the Minnie Style exhibition, which runs Sept. 18 through 22, with the model curating the exhibition and including some of her own photographic shots in the show. Ahead of the exhibit’s opening, Jagger will invite her Instagram followers to share ideas for the show, using the hashtag minniestyleuk. Jagger noted that the exhibition will “[show] how pop culture can influence fashion in a way that encourages excitement

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Peninsula Hotels and Net-a-porter Partner for City Guides

TRAVEL DUO: The Peninsula Hotels has partnered with Net-a-porter.com to create a series of mini guides to the world’s gateway cities, beginning this month with The Peninsula Paris. The guides will live permanently on the respective hotels’ section of The Peninsula Web site, peninsula.com, and will be featured in the travel section of Net-a-porter’s weekly online magazine The Edit during the week of the launch. Each guide offers shopping, style and dining suggestions for that particular city. Published online in English, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Japanese on the Peninsula site, and in English, French, German and Simplified Chinese on Net-a-porter, the 10 mini guides will focus on a one-mile radius around each hotel. Following this month’s launch of the guide in Paris, will come Hong Kong (April 2), Shanghai (April 16), Manila (April 30) and Beverly Hills (May 14). The Peninsula New York guide will be published Sept. 3, to mark New York Fashion Week, and the Chicago guide will be published Sept. 17, followed by Bangkok (Oct. 1), Tokyo, (Oct. 15) and Beijing (Oct. 29).

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Marion Cotillard Designs ‘Green’ Jewels for Chopard

PARIS — Chopard has taken the next step on its road to sustainability by enlisting Marion Cotillard to design its first jewels using ethically sourced colored gemstones. The Geneva-based watch and jewelry firm presented the initiative at a lunch in Paris where Cotillard joined Chopard copresident Caroline Scheufele and Livia Firth, creative director of brand consultancy Eco-Age, who has partnered with Chopard since 2013 in the framework of her Green Carpet Challenge. Cotillard was the first actress to wear items from the Green Carpet Collection on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago. The Oscar winner, who is due to unveil the bracelet and necklace she created at the next edition of the film festival in May, said it was the first time she had turned her hand to jewelry design, a process she enjoyed all the more because she got to use opal stones sourced from a family-owned mine in Australia. “You design while thinking of the people who work on extracting the stones, so it’s a totally different energy,” she told WWD. “Why should the creation of dreams and luxury turn into a nightmare for the people who are providing the raw material?” asked Cotillard, a longtime campaigner for

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Katherine Bahamonde Monasebian Moves to Tourneau

SWITCHING GEARS: C.Wonder’s former executives have begun repopulating the industry in varied capacities, in the wake of the retailer’s bankruptcy earlier this year. Last month, former C.Wonder chief executive officer Harlan Kent was named president of jewelry brand Alex and Ani LLC. Now, C.Wonder’s former executive vice president of e-commerce has found a new post as chief marketing officer and new business development at Tourneau. Katherine Bahamonde Monasebian began at the watch firm in February, tasked with evolving the brand’s digital and marketing strategies, e-commerce channels, and new growth opportunities. Prior to her post at C. Wonder, Monasebian held posts at Juicy Couture, Lululemon, PepsiCo, and Nike. She holds a masters degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

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