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Topshop for Charity

Topshop’s torn a sheet from Margherita and Lauren Bush’s playbook with their latest design effort – A collaboration with Humankind and AfriKids to produce a six-piece line to benefit communities in northern Ghana. Each summer piece is inspired by West African design, handcrafted according to Fairtrade, and the money itself will go towards setting up [...]

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Kate Moss

Kate Saves Kids

If you’re looking for a good excuse to buy your millionth t-shirt, here’s one: The newest batch of Kate Moss’ High Summer collection for Topshop will include a shirt that benefits the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, a charity that benefits seriously ill children. Kate’s modeling her design at left, which we hope you like. She’s [...]

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Buy, Buy, Baby

Rubber Ducky, You’re the One

I’ve been trying to avoid the OAK store for a week now. It’s been hard, real hard. But that hasn’t stopped me from clicking through the pages of new things they’re stocking online. Among my favorites are the new styles of Rubber Duck espadrilles. Reasons why I think everyone should have at least one pair: [...]

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Beauty

Makeup Artists Make Flip Flops?

Back when I was a beauty intern, I noticed something curious: the number one gifts to send to beauty editors are always the same – Picnic baskets, fluffy robes and flip-flops. So we knew it was only a matter of time before somebody came up with this newest designer (makeup, that is) collaboration. Trish McEvoy, [...]

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Louis Vuitton Sues Charity

We totally support Louis Vuitton in its quest to stop all fake-making “inspired” by their designs, but their most recent lawsuit is a little hard to swallow – LV has sued a student artist, Nadia Plesner, over her “Simple Living” campaign, a fundraiser that benefits the Divest for Darfur organization. Plesner drew an image of [...]

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Margherita and Damon – Design Duo

Rebecca from Stylehive just clued us into the best collaboration we’ve heard of since Proenza for Target – Margherita Missoni and Damon Dash are working together to create a new line of sneakers for ProKeds to benefit Orphanaid Africa. The line will consist of six pairs of sneaks covered in collages of Africa-inspired prints (we’d [...]

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Barneys and Loomstate Recycle Together

If you were planning on using some old t-shirts as rags or just bottom-of-the-dresser-drawer fluff, you might want to hang on a couple more weeks. Starting April 13, all Barneys stores will accept all those “vintage” tees from Urban you bought when you first started school, and hand them over to Loomstate so Rogan Gregory [...]

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Christian Finds a Job

We think we just hit (in Faran’s words), reality TV meta overload – We just got a glimpse of Christian Siriano’s first dress post Project Runway win. And where did it appear? On television, of course! American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke wore it during her performance last night. We’re guessing this is just like a [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Stockings For Charity

What you could get if you bid on one of WWD‘s six designer stockings on eBay tonight: 1. From Stella McCartney: A boat load of her Adidas yoga gear, products from her Care organic skincare line. 2. From Badgley Mischka: Their very own Barbie, a certificate for a portrait session with photographer Gilles Bensimon (bikini [...]

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People Are Talking

Barneys Gets Fed?

Lauren Bush’s clever FEED Bag will soon hit Harrod’s, where thousands of luxe London shoppers can help fund the World Food Programme. Now we hear the FEED Bag might also retail in our favorite American wunderstore, Barneys. “Lauren Bush has been trying to match the FEED Bag with the right upscale retailer, and it will [...]

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