Genghis Karl
JOSIE NATORI: 30 YEARS IN INNERWEAR/10 WWDWomen’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’MONDAY Daily Newspaper • October 22, 2007 • $2.00 Accessories/Innerwear/Legwear Genghis Karl By Miles Socha BEIJING — Taking luxury — and event marketing — to an audacious new summit, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld on Friday staged a sunset fashion show atop the Great Wall of China, capped off with giant double-F logos projected onto neighboring mountains. “I think it’s the first fashion show visible from the moon,” Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, joked a few hours before 500 guests climbed steep stone steps to witness Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini- Fendi stroll down the 2,000-year-old structure to a rousing ovation. “It’s a big sign that China is the place where things are happening today.” See Fendi, Page 6 PHOTO BY STEPHANE FEUGERE PHOTO BY 2 WWD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007 WWD.COM New Artistic Directors at Cacharel By Robert Murphy WWDMONDAY Accessories/Innerwear/Legwear PARIS — Cacharel, known for its spirited contem- porary sportswear, has replaced one London de- signer couple with another. GENERAL After a seven-year collaboration with Suzanne Taking luxury and event marketing to a new summit, Fendi on Friday Clements and Inacio Ribeiro, which ended in 1 staged a sunset fashion show atop the Great Wall of China. June, the house has hired Mark Eley and Wakako Cacharel has hired Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto as artistic direc- Kishimoto as its new artistic directors. tors, replacing Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro. The couple, who design the Eley Kishimoto 2 line, will begin at the house immediately, with a EYE: The biannual, fashion-meets-music extravaganza in aid of The fi rst collection scheduled for fall 2008.
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