Cyber Monday may soon overtake Black Friday as the #1 day for bargain hunters to shop. This year, according to cloud-based analytics findings from IBM, sales increased by 30.3% from last year, making it the biggest online shopping day in American history. Whoa.
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Brown Thursday–all the sales days associated with Thanksgiving are starting to blend together into one big giant shopping-fest. It feels like the anxiety of getting the best deals has replaced the anxiety of roasting the perfect bird (and having to chat with your drunk uncle).
Don’t worry–we’re here to help.
New York Takes Aim at Miranda Kerr’s Vapidity: Sample quote from Miranda: “I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” Sample quote from New York: “Even if her workout routine, diet, and husband, Orlando Bloom, weren’t the only things reporters ever asked about, Kerr shows a strong reluctance to utter any sentences not purely banal.” Zing! {New York}
Daphne Guinness/FIT Exhibit Sponsor Pressured to Pull Out: Human rights group Adalah-NY is demanding the immediate withdrawal of Leviev Diamonds as a sponsor to the Daphne Guinness exhibit over at FIT. Apparently, Adalah-NY has beef with Lev Leviev (the company’s owner), over his ties to the West Bank. If Guinness holds on to this sponsorship, Adalah-NY has pledged to protest the exhibit. {WWD subscription required}
Cyber Monday Breaks Records: Analysts are estimating that retailers made close to $1.2 billion yesterday off Cyber Monday deals, up 33% from last year. As of 10pm last night, the tally was at $1.03 billion. {WSJ}
