District L

What do you get when you cross Halloween, Thanksgiving, the SF Pride Parade, and assign it a springtime façade?

Elaborate Fifth Avenue festivities injected some outrageous fun into Easter – reaching beyond the bunnies and pastel eggs attached to the holiday’s more traditional commercial translation. Chubby flower twins, a top-quality Frank Sinatra imitation, costumed newsboys, and a slew of other decorative individuals traipsed past Saks and up towards Bergdorf’s. Performers passed The Peninsula and danced by Henri Bendel for a Sunday afternoon of ornamental entertainment.

Post by Amanda LaMela

...but Versace isn't the only company experiencing a management overhaul. Several other notable designers and retailers seem to have jumped onto the spring cleaning bandwagon and made big changes.

Barbara Menarguz was named Senior Vice President and CFO of Chanel yesterday.

Ken Downing, Senior Vice President and Fashion Director for Neiman Marcus, is now overseeing their consolidated fashion office.

Roopal Patel will become women's fashion accessory senior market editor at Neiman Marcus Inc. She was formerly senior fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman.

Lisa Montague, who was the chief operating officer at Mulberry, has resigned. Her duties will be absorbed by Godfrey Davis, Mulberry's chief executive and chairman.

Fortunately, the long-term plan at District L dictates that it shall remain under the same management until the apocalypse. Whenever that decides to roll around.