Archive for February 2010

Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Kellan Does Calvin, The Tents Are Up at Bryant Park & Jason Wu Gets An Upgrade

Vintage CK: Kellan Lutz’s Calvin Klein ads broke this morning. Apparently, they’re focusing their campaign on the internet. Hopefully, that means the picture at left will pop up more often than not. {WWD} The Tents Are Up: Fashion Week is seconds away and Bryant Park has pitched the Tents…for the last time ever. It’s the [...]

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Fashion Week

The Jersey Shore Invades Fashion Week

There’s yet another group of pseudo-celebs that you’ve got to compete with for fashion week tickets. Jersey Shore cast members have been requesting seats for next week’s shows, according to Page Six. In general, we kind of enjoy those Jersey Shore crazies. Although we’d see rather them on TV, not at work. We’re making unofficial [...]

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The Business

New Look Wants To Pummel Its High Street Rivals

New Look, the British high street shop that’s done collaborations in the past with everyone from Luella to Giles to Tatty Devine, plans on hopping back on the London Stock Exchange. The second-largest women’s retailer in the U.K. wants to raise money–about $1 billion–in order to spruce up its existing stores and also build new [...]

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Fashion Week

Stockholm Fashion Week Aims to Please

Yet another mini-fashion week has caught my eye: Fashion Week by Berns in Stockholm, which wraps up today. Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz and Max Factor, many of the designers that showed Monday and Tuesday are personal favorites, including Fillipa K, Cheap Monday and Whyred. This afternoon, Acne hits the runway. (I’d say that 25% of my [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Pre-Fashion Week Mad-Libs: Shipley & Halmos (Minus the Shipley)

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Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week Facts (& Gossip) – So Far

Technically, New York Fashion Week starts next Wednesday. Not so technically, there’s tomorrow night’s launch of Olsenboye, Thursday’s Chanel Iman-hosted Sonia Rykiel for H&M knitwear party, Tuesday means Cartier’s fragrance launch and Sundance’s Full Frontal Fashion party poolside at The Standard – well basically, it feels like it’s already started. So what do we know [...]

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Shopping

Rent the Runway Stocks Halston, And Soon, Prabal Gurung. But Will You Succumb?

Rent the Runway, the clothing version of Bag, Borrow or Steal, is now stocking pieces from Halston’s Heritage line. Coming up next: fashion darling Prabal Gurung. I have to admit, I’m a bit skeptical about Rent the Runway. As a person who believes in investing in a few nice pieces and wearing them repeatedly, Rent [...]

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Beauty

The Road to My Signature Scent Leads to Histoires de Parfums 1969

For years, I searched apothecaries, departments stores and Sephoras the world over in hopes of finding my signature scent. It started with CK One in middle school. (Which I’ve been secretly considering returning to, if only in jest.) High school belonged to Prescriptives Flirt, which–along with the entire Prescriptives brand–was eventually discontinued. My college and [...]

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Adventures in Copyright

Adventures in Copyright: Tiffany & Co. vs Marc Jacobs

The key chain on the left is Tiffany & Co. and the one on the right is Marc by Marc Jacobs. Thanks to the reader who sent this in; the similarity between the two designs is uncanny, to say the least! The most obvious difference is the medium–Tiffany’s is made with sterling silver, while Marc’s [...]

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Fashion Week

Fashion Week Etiquette, PR Edition: Tantrums Will Get You Nowhere

Two weeks ago, we broke down a few Fashion Week myths. This time around, we asked a handful of publicists what they’d like to tell the world about how to act during fashion week. RULE #1: BE NICE Bonnie Morrison, who went from Publicity Director at KCD to Special Projects Editor at Men’s Vogue and [...]

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Quote of the Day

Eniko Mihalik’s New Life

“I can’t work out too much because after two weeks I look like I’ve been training for a year…Life is very different for me now; I meet celebrities all the time, I get to go to great events, people constantly tell me that I’m beautiful.” –Eniko Mihalik talks tough times in The Independent.

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People Are Talking

Fashion 2.0′s Social Media Awards: Who Will Win and Who We Think Should Win

If you work in fashion, it’s likely you received an invitation on January 12 to nominate your favorite brands for the Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards. Sponsored by sample sale site ideeli and industry group Style Coalition, the awards aim to recognize fashion designers and marketing firms that have upped their social media ante over [...]

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