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Alice + Olivia is a contemporary women's clothing brand designed by founder Stacey Bendet. Launched at Barneys in 2002, it grew to include a men's line and a children's line, sold in stores around the globe including Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Scoop and Harrods, with free standing stores in New York City, Los Angeles, Greenwich and Southampton.
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alice + olivia has grown into 50 million dollar brand including a mens line and a childrens line since its launch at Barneys in 2002. The collection is sold in over 800 stores around the globe such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Scoop, and Harrods. Alice + Olivia has five free standing stores located in New York City, Los Angeles, Greenwich, and Southampton. Two more stores will open in 2009 in Beverly Hills and Malibu.
The collection is worn by many celebrities, such asKristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Angelina Jolie,Diane Kruger, and Mena Suvari.
Designer Stacey Bendet, designs the alice + olivia womens and kids collections in addition to a shoe collection for Payless. She was also on the 2008 Vanity Fair Best Dressed list. That same year, she was married to Eric Eisner, and the couple had their first child, Eloise Breckenridge Eisner, on November 24th, 2008.
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Alice + Olivia operates in the contemporary segment of women's fashion: designer-influenced clothing priced below luxury labels and sold through department stores, boutiques and the brand's own shops. The segment lives on fit and immediacy — clothes that pick up the current silhouette quickly and wear easily — and this brand's founding story is the segment in miniature. Bendet launched with trousers, a single category done distinctively: slim, sharply cut pants that became the label's calling card before the line widened into full collections.
From that base the brand expanded the way contemporary labels typically do: women's collections first, then adjacent lines — a men's line, a children's line, and a shoe collection designed for Payless that carried the name to a value retailer. Distribution mixed wholesale accounts in stores such as Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus with free standing stores in fashion retail centres. Celebrity wearers, from Sarah Jessica Parker to Angelina Jolie, supplied the visibility that contemporary brands depend on, since their marketing budgets are a fraction of the luxury houses'. The press record of the launch years — Women's Wear Daily, the New York Daily News and Crain's New York Business all covered the young label — shows the trade attention a new contemporary brand needs to win store buyers.
Alice + Olivia is designed by its founder, Stacey Bendet, who designs the women's and kids collections. Bendet appeared on the 2008 Vanity Fair Best Dressed list and also designed a shoe collection for Payless.
Alice + Olivia launched at Barneys in 2002. The brand became known early for its trousers — coverage of the launch centred on Bendet's fitted pants, including the New York Sun's 2002 description of her as the designer of the season's It pants.
The collection has been sold in over 800 stores around the globe, including Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Scoop and Harrods, alongside free standing Alice + Olivia stores in New York City, Los Angeles, Greenwich and Southampton.