C Wonder

Love both Ken and Christian – both share a lot of good information

Ken was always the creative director. It’s considered private label and Christian is busy with his Signature collection and Couture brand. The brand is Christian but the design execution is done by the design team. That’s the way Design by real designers is done. If people think Brinkley,Smith and Fox actually design then the are naive.They are reps of these brandss with their name on the label.The clothes are created by design staff working for manufacturers that are making it happen behind the scenes.

• This reply was modified 1 day, 12 hours ago by  sandi7375.

When I first started watching HSN, maybe around 2017 or 2018, I purchased two wonderful thick cotton t-shirts in the C Wonder line. They were not fancy, solid colored, and plain but such high quality. They have long since worn out due to use and the line has definitely changed. They have creative designs but the fabric often looks thin and cheap. Look at the fit and the backside of the garment on the model.

I like Ken, he talks about how he designed certain garments so I think he is now in charge or just promoting himself.

C Wonder was an affordable stylish clothing line started by Tory Burch’s ex-husband, Christopher. Xcel got it through bankruptcy and hired Christian Siriano as it’s creative director. It’s now basically a stylish affordable private label brand only for HSN. Perhaps, Christian is focusing his creative efforts his designer and couture lines and that is why they hired Ken Dowling as the line’s director and on air representative for C Wonder. Ken is very respected in the industry and I really enjoy his on air styling and restyling of the models in real time. He spruces them up and gives us ideas that the production stylists cannot.

I watch when Christian is on. Sorry love his personality, watch only when he is on.

Thank you to everybody that answered! The difference came on his last few visits, Ken started stated “I” all the time and never ever mentioned Christian. I know Christian did comment early on that he was nervous on air and never reads reviews.

Sometimes , the designers like Christian are not as comfortable doing the on air presentations. Unlike some brands exclusive to hsn, Christian Siriano is available in many other places. I think it works better for them to have Ken to do this aspect of the brand. It doesn’t mean that Christian is not part of his own brand.

I just went out and looked at the XCel website. XCel is in to brand management, sales and marketing, some retail, various brands including: Tower Hill with Christie Brinkley, Halston, Longaberger, and Judith Ripka with Heidi Ripka, etc. They were also responsible for Isaac Mizrahi and $2.+ billion in sales.

It looks like Ken Downing joined the Executive Team. He is listed as the Corporate Chief Creative Director for the overall XCel Corporation. C Wonder falls under that and he is there, as well. I’ll keep digging around to see if I can find anything else.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks ago by  njms.

Why doesn’t HSN tell it’s customers what’s going on? No acknowledgement at all that Ken has taken over as the creative director. I don’t have a problem with Ken. I always enjoy him, his knowledge and personality. I never liked the fact that Christian couldn’t bother to come to HSN in person. He did all of his shows remotely.

I was just watching him on with Suzanne and wondering the same thing. No mention of Christian at all.