Archive for February 2009

Just In: Macy’s has cut 7,000 jobs, and their stock dropped 13% within ten minutes of the announcement on Bloomberg.

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Slideshows

Lauren Hutton Fronts J.Crew

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Magazines

Lucky Outgrows its Pages

Over the weekend, you may have read about Lucky magazine’s new iPhone application, Lucky at Your Service, a shopping feature that allows readers to locate the exact location of any item featured in the March Lucky, complete with a customer service center that will text you with notifications like, “Your Chloe dress is now set [...]

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Fall 2009 New York

Ali Skips the Season, Too

The next Fashion Week rumor will be a good one, we swear, Because we just got word that Ali Michael’s sitting this one out, too and next to Marc‘s cutbacks and Abbey‘s knees and Alex‘s lack of parties, well, this is just depressing. Lucky for Ali there’s no surgery on the horizon. In fact, if [...]

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Adventures in Copyright

Adventures in Copyright: Buckle Down

The worst rip-offs are the ones that hit particularly close to home. Take, for example, these buckled Marc by Marc Jacobs boots. Our good friend developed a not-harmless crush on them after she watched Tanya D and Abbey Lee storm the Fall 08 runway. But then they cost almost $1000 until she stumbled upon what [...]

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Magazines

LOVE Gets an Ad, Sets the Date

To: Tips@Fashionista.com From: Page@Flipper.com Just a quick photo to show you the new LOVE advert in UK Vogue, March 2009. Don’t know if you got it already but it’s looking promising – I was so confused by the advert I had to take a few looks at Agyness Queen’s picture before I realized what was [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Bill Cunningham Gets a Shirt

For the past couple years, former art student Dana Veraldi, of Deer Dana, has been making shirts featuring the faces of well-known fashion people, and it’s sort of become a game to guess who’s next. So far, she’s caricatured Vogue‘s Andre Leon Talley and Hamish Bowles, “social” Genevieve Jones, Olivier (both Theyskens and Zahm), Agyness [...]

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Fall 2009 New York

Marc Jacobs Show Downsized

Because so many publications are cutting back on sending editors overseas to Fashion Week, plenty of people thought attendance at the shows would still be great because people who just couldn’t make the list last time would get bumped up, and all the seats at the shows would remain filled, but maybe with slightly different [...]

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Fall 2009 New York

Abbey Lee Out of NYFW

Those of you already thinking about seeing your favorite models on the runways later this month can count out Abbey Lee, at least for New York Fashion Week, anyway. The Australian model won’t be able to walk because she’s just had knee surgery and obviously needs to recover before setting foot in any 6-inch platforms. [...]

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