To mark the fifth year of its collaborations with up-and-coming designers,
Target has tapped 17 past participants in the Go International program to design a series of dresses available from March 13 until April 10, 2011, reports
WWD.
Dubbed the "
Designer Collective," this collection will feature 34 new dresses by Go International alumni such as Luella Bartley (who has since closed down her fashion label), Tara Jarmon, Paul & Joe, Behnaz Sarafpour, Proenza Schouler, Libertine, Alice Temperley, Erin Fetherston, Jovovich-Hawk (another label that folded), Rogan, Richard Chai, Jonathan Saunders, Thakoon, Tracy Feith (who is facing huge financial troubles), Rodarte, Zac Posen (who made a recent cameo on
ANTM), and Tucker by Gaby Basora. Gap's Patrick Robinson was the only designer to decline.
Frankly, all I have to do is open my closet to see a Target Go International "retrospective"! LOL. I think this is a clever idea…but does it signal the end of the Go International series? If so, what's next?
