Virgil Abloh’s Legacy Is About to Get Louder

Many companies, including fashion companies, may be going silent about their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the face of political change. The last round of major designer appointments may not have included a single creative director of color. But at least one group is doubling down on its commitment to broadening the style-talent pipeline.…

Australia’s Watch Fans Are Invited to a Fair

Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip Auto Timepieces, to organize what he called the country’s first watch fair. After all, Mr. Italiano, 37, said, watchmakers there “don’t get an opportunity to have our…

It’s Couture O’Clock at Chanel

The trappings of dressmaking — including thimbles, thread, scissors and measuring tapes — feature in a new 20-piece Couture O’Clock watch collection by Chanel, inspired by the house’s couture workshops on Rue Cambon in Paris. Arnaud Chastaingt, director of Chanel’s Watchmaking Creation Studio, wrote in an email that he had chosen to focus on the…