Calvin Klein’s first female creative director finds succour in a fictional New York

Veronica Leoni’s first collection mixed hat-tips to the CK archive with the Italian’s own ‘dreams of America’Calvin Klein’s first female creative director, Veronica Leoni, presented her debut collection on Friday, watched on by Kate Moss – the brand’s most famous face during the 1990s, when its billboard ads ruled the zeitgeist – Calvin Klein himself, 82, and Christy Turlington.The brand had a lot riding on Friday’s show, its first catwalk presentation for six and a half years, and the highlight of a New York fashion week schedule that has been light on big names as American fashion struggles to compete with European brands owned by the French conglomerates LVMH and Kering. Continue reading...

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Calvin Klein’s first female creative director finds succour in a fictional New York

Veronica Leoni’s first collection mixed hat-tips to the CK archive with the Italian’s own ‘dreams of America’

Calvin Klein’s first female creative director, Veronica Leoni, presented her debut collection on Friday, watched on by Kate Moss – the brand’s most famous face during the 1990s, when its billboard ads ruled the zeitgeist – Calvin Klein himself, 82, and Christy Turlington.

The brand had a lot riding on Friday’s show, its first catwalk presentation for six and a half years, and the highlight of a New York fashion week schedule that has been light on big names as American fashion struggles to compete with European brands owned by the French conglomerates LVMH and Kering. Continue reading...