Five women did a photo shoot on their block wearing wedding dresses - Insider - INSIDER

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• Five women did a photo shoot on their block wearing wedding dresses - Insider - INSIDER
• Clare Waight Keller, Designer of Meghan Markle’s Wedding Dress, Out at Givenchy - The New York Times
• Coronavirus Crashes Prices for Hotels, Rental Cars, and Women’s Dresses - Breitbart
• Texas women stage 'wedding dress Wednesday' photo shoot while social distancing - FOX 10 News Phoenix

Five women did a photo shoot on their block wearing wedding dresses - Insider - INSIDER Posted: 10 Apr 2020 02:06 PM PDT After one of her friends decided to try on her wedding dress for fun, photographer Elyssa Seibel had an idea. She convinced five of her friends and neighbors to do a photo shoot on their block in their wedding dresses, all while practicing social distancing. The results were hilarious — the women used scooters on their block and even channeled the infamous "Bridesmaids" scene. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Elyssa Seibel, of A Joy Story Photography, shared a unique photo shoot last week — her five neighbors donned their wedding dresses before riding scooters, popping champagne, and lounging in lawn chairs ... all while social distancing. Seibel's neighbors in Georgetown, Texas, are close-knit, and they have not been able to hang out as usual, due to the pandemic. So Seibel thought: What better way to bring a smile to everyone's faces than do something totally ridiculous? It worked — their neighbors gave them a round of applause, and the photos have been a hit on the internet. Keep scrolling to learn more about Seibel, her neighbors, and this one-of-a-kind photo shoot.

Clare Waight Keller, Designer of Meghan Markle’s Wedding Dress, Out at Givenchy - The New York Times Posted: 10 Apr 2020 10:09 AM PDT The fashion world's endless game of musical chairs doesn't stop even for a pandemic. On Friday, Givenchy announced that Clare Waight Keller, the brand's first female artistic director and a designer who rose to global fame as the creator of Meghan Markle's wedding dress, was leaving the house after only three years. A successor has not yet been named. "As the first woman to be the artistic director of this legendary maison, I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to cherish its legacy and bring it new life," Ms. Waight Keller said in a statement, paying tribute to "the unsung heroes and heroines behind the scenes, for their contribution from product to communications and retail, and every global team member, partner and supplier in between." The news completes a shift in the executive suite at Givenchy, which is owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury goods company by sales. On March 6, Renaud de Lesquen was named chief executive, replacing Philippe Fortunato. Mr. de Lesquen started his tenure April 1. The fall 2020 collection that was shown at Paris Fashion Week in March will be Ms. Waight Keller's final one for the house, the company statement said. Despite all of the discussion about how the coronavirus pandemic could cause a readjustment in the fashion world, changing the pace of the industry and its values, it has apparently not yet affected the ever faster turnover of names at the top. Ms. Waight Keller's appointment in March 2017 was heralded as a new direction for the brand that Audrey Hepburn helped build. A highly organized Brit, who had spent six years at Chloé before joining Givenchy, she was seen as a calming presence after 12 years under the former creative director Riccardo Tisci. He had brought new energy and attention to the brand but was a volatile figure, given his provocative embrace of the Kardashian clan and his combination of gothic romanticism and street style. At Givenchy, Ms. Waight Keller united the men's and women's collections, reintroduced couture and courted a celebrity clientele that included Gal Gadot and Chadwick Boseman, both of whom wore her clothes to the Oscars (in 2020 and 2019 respectively). When the Duchess of Sussex chose Ms. Waight Keller to create her wedding dress for her marriage to Prince Harry in May 2018 — a simple design with a wide boat neck, long sleeves and a sweeping train that was almost universally praised — it seemed the ultimate confirmation that her star was in the ascent. She won British designer of the year for women's wear in 2018 at the Fashion Awards in London (a pregnant Duchess of Sussex bestowed the honor in, of course, one-shouldered black Givenchy) and named to the Time 100 list the following year (Julianne Moore wrote the entry). In the statement, Sidney Toledano, chief executive of the LVMH Fashion Group, said that under Ms. Waight Keller's "creative leadership, and in great collaboration with its ateliers and teams, the Maison reconnected with the founding values of Hubert de Givenchy and his innate sense of elegance." Great commercial ambition powered her creative endeavors. When Ms. Waight Keller joined Givenchy in 2017, the brand had revenues believed to be approaching 600 million euros ($715 million) annually. But Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH, saw bigger potential in a pairing of Givenchy's heritage with Ms. Waight Keller's appointment. At the time, he said, "I think it will grow very fast in the next two years." He also said that he thought the house had the potential to reach the size of Dior, which is a member of the billion-euro club. That did not come to pass. LVMH's annual reports do not break out the performance of brands in the Fashion Group (a collection of its smaller fashion names), so the results of Ms. Waight Keller's tenure have not been made publicly available. But her vision of Givenchy never appeared to gain the mainstream popularity that Mr. Tisci achieved, or reach the sales momentum desired by LVMH executives. Her collections could also seem erratic. Though her couture telegraphed a rigorous elegance that bridged heritage and modernity, combining latex and lace, sequins and tailoring, she struggled to give her ready-to-wear a signature, veering from upcycled denim to floaty boho-deluxe dresses to, most recently, graphic '90s looks with power shoulders. Critical brand introductions for the house in the accessibly priced category — sneakers and sweatshirts — were met with lukewarm reception when compared to rival houses like Dior or Gucci, owned by Kering, despite expensive celebrity partnerships with the likes of Ariana Grande. And Ms. Waight Keller never created that most crucial weapon in any brand's arsenal, the It bag. She also avoided the spotlight, eschewing the fashion party circuit and commuting from Paris to London, where her family remained. "She is a very talented designer and a lovely person who I thought brought a lot to Givenchy, but this is a time when everyone is rethinking and re-examining what is best," said Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast and editor of Vogue. "I am sure she will rebound." The departure had been rumored since earlier this year and was characterized as "mutual" by someone with knowledge of the discussions who was not authorized to apeak about them publicly. Still, it is a strange time to make a change in leadership, given that the fashion world is essentially shuttered and luxury a complicated proposition in a world where unemployment is soaring and the global economy is teetering. Rather than pushing products, brands have been turning their attention to creating communities online, with Olivier Rousteing of Balmain starting the #BalmainEnsemble with a tour through some of the brand's archives, and Prada hosting Possible Conversations between well-known industry figures. The absence of an identifiable designer personality will create a vacuum at the top of Givenchy at a time when consumers are looking for connection. As for who will take Ms. Waight Keller's place, the company said her successor would be announced "at a later date."

Coronavirus Crashes Prices for Hotels, Rental Cars, and Women’s Dresses - Breitbart Posted: 10 Apr 2020 08:07 AM PDT The coronavirus may have caused some shortages—famously for toilet paper—but the larger effect has been to depress demand and send consumer prices lower. The consumer price index dropped 0.4 percent in March, the biggest decline in five years, the Labor Department said Friday. Compared with a year ago, prices are up just 1.5 percent, a rapid turnaround from the 2.3 percent annual gain recorded a month earlier. Much of the decline was from the familiar sources of food and energy, often volatile categories that economists often exclude to look at so-called "core inflation." Gasoline prices plunged 10.5 percent in March. Core inflation was down in March, the first decline in ten years. That raises the prospect that the economy could be entering a deflationary cycle, which puts pressure on employment, income, and production. Travel related goods and services saw some of the sharpest monthly declines. Airline ticket prices fell 12.6 percent in March. Car rental prices dropped 6.9 percent. Hotel and motel prices fell 7.7 percent. Prices for women's dresses, which are tracked separately from other apparel items in the CPI data, fell 5.7 percent and are down 10 percent from a year ago. Women's apparel more broadly was off by 3.1 percent. Men's apparel was flat for the month. Infant clothing prices were also off sharply, a 4.3 percent decline in March. Infant furniture prices fell 6.6 percent. People do not appear to have taken to making their own clothing. Sewing machine and sewing supply prices fell 7.1 percent for the month and are down 11.2 percent from a year ago.

Texas women stage 'wedding dress Wednesday' photo shoot while social distancing - FOX 10 News Phoenix Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:26 AM PDT article ( Elyssa Seibel/A Joy Story Photography ) GEORGETOWN, Texas - And they all quarantined happily ever after. A group of women in Texas recently rocked their wedding dresses once again for a socially-distanced photoshoot to lift spirits in their tight-knit neighborhood during the coronavirus pandemic. DOWNLOAD THE FOX 7 AUSTIN NEWS APP FOR YOUR MOBILE DEVICE Last week, professional photographer Elyssa Seibel gathered five friends in her Georgetown neighborhood for a lighthearted "wedding dress Wednesday" portrait session. Seibel, who owns and runs A Joy Story Photography, told Fox News that she and her pals miss spending time together during the ongoing quarantine, and wanted to get together in a safe way. "I convinced five of them to put on wedding dresses and come outside for a social distancing photoshoot! We were hoping to make ourselves and our neighbors laugh – but we are really glad that we have brought smiles to so many people this week!" Seibel told Fox News on Tuesday of the unique photo op, which has since made waves on Facebook. Advertisement CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST INFO ON THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Positioned at least six feet apart in the series of photos, friends Jamie Egloff, Bryce Ellerbroek, Jaime Sladek, Shannon Thomas and Nina Wagner were all smiles in their bridal gowns as they posed in front of their houses, popped champagne and even rode scooters down the street, Good Morning America reports. Moving forward, Seibel said she hopes that the pictures also bring joy to others and she hopes to see "lots of other wedding dress Wednesday photos tomorrow!" "I have seen so many industries destroyed by this pandemic, including my own," the photographer said. "But I have been really inspired by all the photographers who have been finding ways to use their talent to make some happiness for their communities – and that's exactly what I wanted to do." MORE FROM FOX NEWS __ FOX 7 Austin is working to keep you up to date with coronavirus, with both local and national developments. Every weekday we're live at 12 p.m. with a special show reporting the latest news, prevention tips and treatment information. You can watch live in your FOX 7 Austin app or on the FOX 7 Austin Facebook page. You can also get the latest COVID-19 news from around the country at coronavirusnow.com.

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