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Target to collaborate with Christopher John Rogers, Rixo and Alexis

US retailer Target is to offer dresses by Christopher John Rogers, Rixo and Alexis for less than 60 US dollars as part of its new The Designer Dress Collection. The accessible collection will feature more than 70 dresses from the three designers and will mark Target’s most size-inclusive collection to date, added the retailer, with sizes ranging...

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America's independent fashion designers embraced by incoming administration

America’s fashion industry, particularly its independent designers, look set to be embraced by the incoming Biden Harris administration, with bold fashion choices making headlines. First Lady Dr Jill Biden wore a purple coat along with matching facemask from Jonathan Cohen, a young luxury ready-to-wear label based in New York, at a send-off...

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Christopher John Rogers launches e-commerce

Christopher John Rogers fans can now enjoy the beauty of shopping for the brand on christopherjohnrogers.com. The brand has launched e-commerce for customers to be able to pre-order the spring 2021 collection online. The site was designed in collaboration with Barcelona-based architectural and design studio, Sauras + Garriga, who designed the...

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Vogue launches a limited-edition designer T-shirt collection

Vogue has partnered with Net-a-Porter on a limited-edition T-shirt collection featuring designs by Christopher John Rogers, Gauchere, Ioannes and S.Joon, who are a part of the luxury online retailer’s The Vanguard spring/summer 2020 programme for rising star designers. The collaboration marks the first of its kind between Vogue and the luxury...

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Designer Christopher John Rogers empowers fantasy and diversity

While Black History Month is a time to celebrate visibility, representation, and achievement within the black community, the month-long fashion calendar offers up new emerging designers to be splashed across social media daily, but rarely are they people of color. Christopher John Rogers seems to have come out of nowhere to stage one of the most...

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Weekend highlights from New York Fashion Week

Celebrities, capes and car parts: AFP rounds up the best shows from Saturday and Sunday of New York Fashion Week. Tory Burch Actresses Julianne Moore and Lucy Liu, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour sat front row as Tory Burch showcased floral patterns inspired by Turkish, English and French porcelain on Sunday. The fall-winter 2020...

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Christopher John Rogers wins CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund

Brooklyn-based fashion designer Christopher John Rogers has been crowned the winner of the 2019 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, following in the footsteps of designers including Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Public School’s Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, and last year’s winner, Pyer Moss’ Kerby Jean-Raymond....

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Big gowns were back at New York Fashion Week

Gowns! Beautiful gowns! The now iconic words of Aretha Franklin were also a trend at New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2020. Designer Christopher John Rogers, who is just in his third season at New York Fashion Week, continues to put his whimsical spin on evening wear. While the designer didn't create on his usually oversized tulle gowns like...