Top fashion designers go down-market
Vera Wang has hooked up with Kohl’s; Lela Rose is stepping out with Payless. Premium jeans kings Chip Pepper and Ralph Lauren are doing JCPenney; Cynthia Rowley is holding hands with Avon. Sarah Jessica Parker, Amanda Bynes and Venus Williams are going steady with Steve Barry’s. Todd Oldham will team up with Old Navy. And Alice Temperley is flying in from London to air-kiss Target, the leader in what some in the industry call, without irony, the democratization of fashion.