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- Innovation In Unattended Retail, Apparel Resale - pymnts.com
- Coronavirus anxiety fades a bit in apparel sector - Seeking Alpha
- From athlete to designer: Adidas senior apparel designer speaks to IU students - Indiana Daily Student
- Lincoln Center Theater's Intimate Apparel Opera Adds Dianne McIntyre as Choreographer - Broadway.com
- Ensemble Theatre offers a deft ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Lynn Nottage’s poignant tale of an African American seamst - cleveland.com
| Innovation In Unattended Retail, Apparel Resale - pymnts.com Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:01 AM PST Consumers are interested in unattended commerce – and not only soda and candy from vending machines. They are looking to purchase all sorts of products and services via unattended retail channels like kiosks, vending machines and automated stores. However, only a smaller segment of that population has actually purchased anything through those channels over the past three months. And in apparel retail, the resale market is reinventing itself for 2020, with Nordstrom taking a multichannel approach. All this, Today in Data.
2009: The year that secondhand clothing platform thredUP was founded. 78.1 percent: Share of digital wallet users who want to make non-traditional unattended purchases. 56M: Number of women who bought secondhand items in 2018. 49.4 percent: Portion of unattended retail shoppers who use those channels because they are fast. 48.6M: Number of U.S. consumers who would like to buy non-traditional items via unattended channels.   |
| Coronavirus anxiety fades a bit in apparel sector - Seeking Alpha Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:00 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]Coronavirus anxiety fades a bit in apparel sector Seeking Alpha  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2020 12:05 PM PST  IU alumnus, designer and artist Cedric J. Hudson talks to students Feb. 11 in the Indiana Memorial Union's Whittenberger Auditorium. Hudson discussed his success as an Adidas designer. Gracie Farrall IU alumnus and Adidas senior apparel designer Cedric Hudson gave a free lecture to around 50 students at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union Hudson graduated from IU in May 2012 with a bachelor's degree in fashion design. He has worked for four different Adidas apparel teams such as Yeezy and Basketball. "It's all about style," Hudson said. "How we can make the coolest yet functional products. How we can be creative in the industry." Hudson said sustainability is key, especially with the high amount of plastic usage in the fashion industry. "It's important for the future," Hudson said. He said they are trying to be creative and are open to ideas regarding the issue, such as using recycled polyester materials to make their apparel. Hudson said that it's important to talk to fashion and apparel students about what it is like to work in the industry. "If I can be the person who can shed the light on it, I would like to be that," Hudson said. "To see somebody that is a designer and a person of color is really important." The event featured a Q&A panel in which students asked Hudson questions. He advised cutting down time on social media and listening to your surroundings. He said it's important to take time to see what's in front of you. "You need that to see through answers that might not be seen," Hudson said. Deb Christiansen, Hudson's former fashion design professor, invited him to lecture because she said she wanted him to share how he became a designer and talk about the ability to predict trends that people are interested in. "He's a natural," Christiansen said. "He's just a great role model." Senior Sariah Borom, who is minoring in fashion design, said she came to the event because of her interest in fashion. She said she thought the lecture was inspiring and that she found the advice useful for her future endeavors. "It really inspires me," Borom said. Like what you're reading? Support independent, award-winning college journalism on this site. Donate here.  Professor Glenn Gass will retire at the end of the school year after almost 40 years of teaching.  To enter, contestants will submit videos of original songs.  The show will feature surprise guests, costume changes and dancing.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2020 11:38 AM PST Emmy nominee Dianne McIntyre has taken over as choreographer on the upcoming opera adaptation of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. McIntyre replaces the previously announced Tony nominee Camille A. Brown, who has exited the production due to scheduling conflicts. McIntyre is a legendary veteran choreographer whose career has included theater and film work. Her stage credits include Broadway's Mule Bone, Paul Robeson and King Hedley II and off-Broadway's The Great Macdaddy and Spell #7. She earned an Emmy nomination for her choreography of the 1997 TV movie Miss Evers' Boys. Featuring a book by Nottage and music by Ricky Ian Gordon, Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther, a lonely, single African-American woman in 1905 New York City who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies' undergarments. Seeking love and romance, Esther embarks on a letter-writing relationship with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal and realizes that only her self-reliance and certainty of her own worth will see her through life's challenges. The opera's principal cast will include Kearstin Piper Brown as Esther, Adrienne Danrich as Mrs. Dickson, Justin Austin as George Armstrong, Naomi Louisa O'Connell as Mrs. Van Buren, Arnold Livingston Geis as Mr. Marks and Krysty Swann as Mayme. Chabrelle Williams will play the role of Esther at Wednesday and Saturday matinee performances. Tony winner Bartlett Sher will direct the off-Broadway production, slated to begin previews on February 27 and open on March 23 at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:00 AM PST  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Playwright Lynn Nottage has a laundry basketful of accolades — she is the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama ("Ruined" [2009] and "Sweat" [2017]). She is a recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant fellowship, has published 10 plays, and was one of Time magazine's 2019 Top 100 people (along with Nancy Pelosi, Pope Francis, Michelle Obama, and LeBron James). She's also been a very busy writer lately: In 2019, she premiered her newest play, "Floyd's," at the Guthrie, and wrote the book for the world premiere of the musical "The Secret Life of Bees." She wrote the libretto for the upcoming world premiere of the musical "MJ," featuring the music of Michael Jackson, which is scheduled to open this year at the Neil Simon Theater in New York. There's even an upcoming 2020 opera version of her play "Intimate Apparel," commissioned by The Met/Lincoln Center Theater, for which she wrote the libretto. "Intimate Apparel" is her most popular play. It is the story of Esther Mills, an African American seamstress in 1905 New York, and her relationships with two women for whom she crafts elaborate undergarments, her boarding house landlady, a Jewish fabric merchant from whom she buys her material and a pen pal/would-be-suitor from Barbados named George Armstrong. Never mind that Esther can't read and asks for help reading Armstrong's letters and writing her replies from her wealthy white client Mrs. Van Buren and her friend Mayme, who works as a prostitute in the Tenderloin. Mrs. Van Buren, trying to entice her husband to her boudoir in their childless marriage, hires Esther to create luxurious replicas of French corsets. Mayme, trying to entice men of a different sort, buys the very same corsets from Esther for her working-gal uniform. Nottage is known as a writer who deftly delves into issues of gender, class and race without making any of the three a play's central plot line. In "Intimate Apparel," she is exploring these issues through the lives of socially isolated women dreaming of a better future and being caught short by day-to-day reality. The hope and pain of this dichotomy is evident in this Ensemble Theatre production. Director Sarah May uses a steady, easy pacing to tell this tale, and as the world of the play reveals itself, the events reach out to audience members and gathers them in like a comforting quilt. It is cast with a winning ensemble of actors, most notably Kimberly L. Brown as Esther. Her Esther has a quiet, determined and modest nobility. A spinster at 35, she has no illusions about her prospects or her lack of physical beauty. She dreams of opening a beauty parlor for "colored ladies," and she has been stitching money into her crazy quilt for 18 years toward that end. Zyrece Montgomery as Mayme is a mercurial delight; at times brazen, nonchalant, funny and pointed. The two have a particularly touching scene when they share their dreams of the future: Esther's beauty parlor "somewhere east of Amsterdam" and Mayme's dream of being a concert pianist on the world stage. But Mayme is a realist, and she tells Esther that her pen pal George is a fantasy, admonishing her, "You'd rather a man all the way across the ocean than down Broadway. Are you expecting him to arrive in the mail like some tonic from a catalogue?" She urges Esther to find a real man in the here and now. That here-and-now man could be Mr. Marks (Craig Joseph), the fabric merchant from whom Esther buys her cloth, and with whom she shares a common love of beautiful fabric. It is clear that sparks are flying between them, but he is white and Jewish, and these obstacles seem insurmountable. The scenes between Esther and Mr. Marks are tender and affecting, leaving us hoping that the two will somehow find love in a world where race and religion don't matter. The best scenes are between Esther and her two clients. There is a "sisterhood" born of girl talk while Esther is fitting corsets upon her clients in their intimate spaces, and the conversation feels easy and familial as the two help Esther in her epistolary courtship with Armstrong. Events shatter this camaraderie when Mrs. Van Buren's white privilege causes her to overstep social mores and Mayme's self-interest destroys their friendship. When these friendships unravel, the audience feels the burden of Esther's hard life of piece work and her deep loneliness. She is beleaguered by turn-of-the-20th-century race and class expectations and has no place in which she can truly belong. As Ensemble Theatre often does, the scenic choices are smart projections, this time of New York in the early 20th century. Ian Hinz's set, light and projection design indicates the rooms in which the scenes are played: Esther's boarding house sewing room, Mrs. Van Buren's dressing room, Mayme's flophouse and Mr. Marks' fabric shop. The set is a series of platforms dressed with furniture, and the play moves quickly from each scene with the help of transitional ragtime music composed/played by Edward Ridley Jr. Cleveland is a theater town, and its theatergoers are not only generous but smart. We know that smaller theaters such as Ensemble do not have extensive budgets for sets and costumes, or entire casts of Equity actors. We're willing to forgive instances of actors that are only adequate to their tasks, furniture and props that aren't all period-specific, and an ill-fitting costume or two. It was, however, impossible to overlook the costume design by Katie Atkinson and Jill Kenderas. "Intimate Apparel" is a play about a gifted seamstress who loves beautiful fabric. During the course of the play, she designs three corsets, a smoking jacket, a man's suit and a wedding dress. The corsets were lovely, and their accompanying lingerie were appropriate. But the smoking jacket, the wedding dress and the man's suit were unattractive, badly constructed and not adequately fitted to the actors' bodies. Two of the production's costumes were so unattractive that they took my attention away, reminding me of the famous Carol Burnett sketch with Scarlett O'Hara's dress made of curtains, curtain rod and rings included. Something simpler and plainer would have sufficed. It would have been better to ask the audience to use their imaginations to create finery, rather than taking them out of the world of the play with unflattering costumes. That said, "Intimate Apparel" is a poignant and thought-provoking play filled with many plot surprises, given a solid production by Ensemble Theatre. McGee is a professor of theater at Case Western Reserve University. REVIEW Intimate Apparel What: An Ensemble Theatre production of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning play. Directed by Sara May. When: Through Sunday, Feb. 16. Where: 2843 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Heights. Tickets: $12-$29. Go to ensemble-theatre.org or call 216-321-2930. Approximate running time: 2 hours and 15 minutes, with a 10-minute intermission.  |
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