Archive for January 2010

Events

2010/01/04 – 01/21 NYC Sale: Jill Stuart

30% to 60% off women’s and select jewelry!

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Can Duty Free Save Dubai?

Dubai’s economy might’ve plummeted last month, but their Duty Free industry sure boomed. The year brought record sales – $1.14 billion dollars to be exact. Perfume was the number one money maker and women’s fashion sales rose by 36% over 2008, with cosmetics, liquor and cigarettes sandwiched in between. On average, the airport rang up [...]

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Adventures in Copyright

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People We Like

Dress it Like Beckham

Rumors are swirling overseas this afternoon that Victoria Beckham is looking to add menswear to her DVB line. And who would be designing the alleged collection? Well, David, of course. She played coy to Grazia earlier this year telling them, “David has a line he works on with a designer in America – that’s for [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

I Want Your Barbie

Lady Gaga had quite the year — the fashion, music and entertainment worlds just could not get enough of her in ’09. Her popularity certainly hasn’t dwindled with the start of a new year. In fact, it’s gone to the dolls! (And it was only a matter of time, really.) The good people at Refinery29 [...]

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Magazines

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Pepe-d: Alexa Chung’s the new face of Pepe jeans. We always imagine her taking a more Burberry-like route, but she did land a Burberry co-star, Tom Guinness, and manages to look plenty Alexa-ish in rumpled shorts and a leather jacket. {Grazia} Bien Sur: French Vogue names their Forty Women of the Decade. Marion Cotillard, Garance [...]

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Magazines

Here Comes the Sun?

According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, there may just be a bright spot on the horizon for magazines after all. Apparently advertisers went on a bit of a spending spree in the last quarter of 2009 and it’s happily carrying over into 2010, even in the newspaper sector which was suffering even more terribly [...]

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Buy, Buy, Baby

The Winter Pinks

Last month, Sarah Jessica Parker ran around New York City promoting Did You Hear About the Morgans. Whether she was wearing jeans and a blazer, a sequined mini dress or sweatpants and Uggs, she clung tight to a hot pink patent leather bowler bag that’s more Carrie than SJP. Ninety-nine percent of product related press [...]

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People We Like

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The Queen Softens Luella’s Blow

A new year mean’s a new Queen’s Honors List. This week, Queen Elizabeth announced a handful of fashion favorites including Stephen Jones – the man behind hats for Marc, Galliano, Giles and Commes des Gar√ßons to name a few, and Mark Jones, the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum (which launched a Stephen Jones [...]

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Fashion Week

Altuzarra & Gurung Win Ecco Domani

The end of the holidays signals the start of Fashion Week, or at least a slow descent into its proper mindset. To kick it off, Ecco Domani’s announced their Fall 2010 awards. Their winners, including Prabal Gurung, The Blonds and Joseph Altuzarra in the womenswear category, John Patrick of Organic for sustainable design, and Irina [...]

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