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📰 Kate Spade's Next Creative Director Is Jonathan Saunders {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Kate Spade New York has appointed Jonathan Saunders as its new executive creative director, effective Aug. 26. The Central Saint Martins grad was most recently chief creative officer of & Other Stories, and has more than 20 years of experience at companies including Alexander McQueen , Diane von Furstenberg , Calvin Klein , Tiffany & Co. and Pucci . He also oversaw his own namesake line from 2003 to 2015 . Saunders is bringing his take on modern femininity to the Tapestry-owned brand, overseeing product design and visual identity, per a press release . He reports to Kate Spade Brand President and CEO Eva Erdmann, who joined the company in 2024 and spearheaded the splashy Gen Z-focused fall campaign featuring Ice Spice, Charli D’Amelio, Laufey and Reign Judge. Erdmann shared her excitement about Saunders...

📰 The Met's 'Costume Art' Exhibit Puts Every Type of Body on Display {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: "For a long time, fashion has been positioned in the margins of art as decorative, as representational and as supplementary," Andrew Bolton, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute curator in charge, said Monday morning at the press preview for the museum's spring exhibit. "'Costume Art' rejects that position. It affirms fashion as a craft in its own right." The idea that fashion is art (which happens to be the dress code for Monday night's Met Gala ) may not be difficult to accept today, but it's quite ambitious to showcase such a broad concept in a curated environment. The museum tackles this by defining the exhibit as an exploration of the dressed body — examining how it's shaped history, art and identity. View this post on In...