The new year has barely begun and the Halls buying team is already gearing up for fall and winter of 2012. The next two months will be filled with trips to markets and showrooms around the globe (as well as Fashion Week) for our buyers in almost every department to make their selections for the last two quarters of this year. (Buying for Christmas goods? Happening this month…believe it or not!)
There will be trips to several different countries in Europe including Italy and France as well as our annual domestic buying jaunts. We’ve asked a few of the buyers to send us photos and reports of all the fun items they see at market.
You may have seen news of several pre-fall fashion shows that occurred last month, including Oscar de la Renta (gorgeous!). Our buying team is on top of it – in fact, Jennifer Myers, Halls buyer for designer ready-to-wear and handbags, spent several days in Florence, Italy last month buying pre-fall and fall collection shoes and handbags at Gucci.
Unfortunately for us, Gucci doesn’t allow photos inside of their Florence showroom – so, you’ll just have to wait until next August and September to see what Jennifer chose! Jen did send us some beautiful photos of Florence at Christmastime though – we continue to live vicariously through Jen’s global buying trips!
