Just weeks after partnering with Playboy Enterprises to redesign the legendary bunny costume, Roberto Cavalli is launching into the spirits business, starting with his first brand of premium vodka this September. Roberto Cavalli Vodka will be made with the finest Italian ingredients — from wheat grains cultivated in the valleys on the Po River near the southwestern Alps and water from springs on the peak of Monte Rosa in the Piedmont region. Before being bottled, it will be filtered through layers of crushed Italian marble for purity…. Cavalli also designed the bottle, which features an image of a snake coiling around it. A 750-ml. bottle will retail for $60. (wwd)
* Seventh on Sale, the sample sale benefiting the fight against HIV and AIDS, is coming back after a 10-year break. But in a tell-tale sign of just how much things can change in a decade, it will take place as an online auction on eBay Nov. 10–Dec. 7. EBay will partner with designers to manage the logistics of selling merchandise on the site and there will be a merchandising committee of key fashion executives to help designers pick suitable pieces for the sale. The sale will be kicked off with a black-tie gala on Nov. 10 at Skylight Studios. ….In addition, eBay terminals will be scattered throughout the venue that night for gala guests to start bidding. In addition to the designer pieces, shoppers can go on eBay a week before the gala and bid on "Ultimate Fashion Adventures" made available&nbs
