Timo Weiland Relaunching With Tailored Clothing Focus

Timo Weiland is back. After nearly two years on hiatus, the label created by Timo Weiland, Alan Eckstein and Donna Kang, is relaunching during New York Fashion Week: Men’s. The spring collection, which will be focused exclusively on a colorful array of men’s suits, is being brought back by Groupe, a retail concept created by James and Gwendolyn Jurney of Seize sur Vingt fame, which bankrolls independent and emerging designers. The collection will be shown on June 3 during Agentry PR’s New York Men’s Day at Daylight Studios & Location 05, next to Hudson Yards. In a preview at Groupe, Weiland said that while each of the brand’s founders has moved on to create other businesses, they were eager to work together again on the Timo Weiland line. Weiland is working with Noah Gellman on The Lead, a consulting/networking company that connects fashion firms with technology providers. Eckstein next month will launch Everybody Wins, a business that creates sustainable apparel by redesigning overstock, and Kang is working with Megan Wall to create Maer, a direct-to-consumer, inclusively-sized evening wear line for women that also launches in mid-June. “But we’re still a trio,” Weiland said — at least when it comes to the Timo Weiland collection. The business

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