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Chris Benz named Head of Women’s Design at J.Crew

Chris Benz has been appointed Head of Women’s Design at J.Crew, effective immediately. He’s joining the company from Bill Blass, where he had been serving as Creative Director since 2015. This is not the first time Benz works for J.Crew: he worked there as womenswear designer for a year after graduating from Parsons School of Design, leaving the...

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eBay launches the Holiday Collective

eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, has collaborated with seven designers for Christmas 2012 to launch the ‘Holiday Collective’. The limit-edition gift collection features more than forty pieces designed by fashion designers Chris Benz, Billy Reid, Ruffian, and Tibi, as well as statement jewellery from Fallon, home décor from Jonathan...

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NYFW: Chris Benz satchels

Fashion designer Chris Benz has become the first US designer to collaborate with the British start-up Cambridge Satchel Company. The range of limited edition satchels were presented during New York Fashion Week and were an integral part of Chris Benz’s spring/summer 2013 collection. The new shape satchel was presented in nine colours ranging...

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Barbie for president

Barbie has unveiled its latest ‘I Can Be’ doll and for 2012 Mattel’s famous doll is running for President and she has drafted in the help of CFDA fashion designer Chris Benz to dress her ‘Glam-paign’. For Barbie’s ‘I Can Be...President’ doll, Benz has delved into his archives and brought out a print that Michelle Obama wore in green and made it...