Connecting the people, ideas and energy of the menswear business
Elise Diamantini, managing editor, covers the contemporary market for MR Magazine and MRketplace.com. A former MR intern, Elise graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and marketing communications and an associate’s degree in fashion merchandising. Elise resides in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood perfect for people-watching and trend-spotting.
Every season, before I start the tradeshow circuit, I make an appointment with Doneger’s Tim Bess to check out his trend forecast presentation. Tim’s charismatic personality and thorough assessment of the market always gets me pumped to enter the next round of shows. Over the past few seasons menswear has seriously cleaned up and gone [...]
Elise Diamantini: There’s no doubt about it, colored bottoms are at the top of retailers’ fall ’12 hit lists.
Elise Diamantini: We asked Joey Gonzalez of Fred Segal Man, Eric Jennings of Saks and Ryan Eccles of Union what’s new, next and what they hope to find for fall 2012.
Elise Diamantini: Bootcut styles and color are triggering new interest in denim.
These three emerging designers, Marlon Gobel, Ian Velardi and Todd Snyder, started their careers working for big names. Now they’re now showing their own visions.
Elise Diamantini: The Nanshan Group, a huge Chinese manufacturing conglomerate known best to the American market as the maker of Paul Betenly suits, recently celebrated 30 years in business.
Editors, bloggers and fashion-insiders found shelter from the torrential rain storm in NYC Wednesday night at the By Robert James store opening party.
Elise Diamantini talks to a group of guys who started wearing bow ties as a way to thumb their noses at a new dress code, and then found themselves office trendsetters.
Elise Diamantini: Last night, New Balance previewed their made in the USA collection at New York’s Mulberry Project.
Retailer of the Year coverage: Francie Nguyen, SVP of CMRG direct business: “There will always be a need for the catalog—it’s our number one marketing tool—but we’re a multi-channel business and everything we do from print to e-mail to in-store helps drive the total business.”
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