As part of its initiative to reinvigorate products for the fabric category, Procter&Gamble reveals the results of the recent collaboration between Tide Pods and designer Tracy Reese, a member of Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). She has created the machine-washable fashionable garments that will be crowdsourced on Pinterest and later unveiled in her Fall/Winter 2014 collection.

Gucci is extending its fashion-forward philanthropy initiative, Chime for Change, through a competition for technology developers. The fashion giant is launching a hackathon called “Chime Hack” in early December where engineers, product designers and project managers will be developing mobile applications to support girls and women globally.

The brand new, unprecedented collaboration between the cultural icon Coca-Cola and the prominent American vintage fashion re-designer Drx aka Darren Romanelli hit stores in the world’s biggest cities two days ago and was marked by opening parties at 10 fashionable urban hotspots: in NY, LA, Las Vegas, Miami, Toronto, London,  Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab, who made a name for himself more than 30 years ago as an expert in gorgeous embroidered wedding dresses and gowns, has now joined a prestigious cohort of international greats such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Paul Smith, Diane von Furstenberg and others as the next author of the limited-edition design for the French premium water brand Evian.