Germany

Magazines

Germany Gets Its Own Grazia

For those of you who live in Germany, fashionable Americans are really jealous. Why? Because you’re getting your very own Grazia. It’s not like print publications are currently booming in Europe either, but Grazia–the weekly fashion/gossip rag published everywhere from France to the U.K.–is exceptionally successful. Or at least that’s what it looks like judging [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Like Grown Up Lula: Ellen Von Unwerth shot Milla Jovovich and Sasha Pivovarova for July’s Italian Vogue. As if that’s not enough Fall clothes give us butterflies. {IMG} On the Otherside: Catherine McNeil’s in the new Vogue Germany doing black and white for Patrick Demarchelier. She’s also kind of nakey. {Models} We Are Not Alone: [...]

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Fashion Week

Too Skinny in Berlin?

There’s an industry joke that it’s always Fashion Week somewhere, and last week was Berlin’s turn. The German city known for its emerging art scene (and apparently its emerging cover of American Vogue starring Keira Knightley) played host to over 20 runways, including Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood, Boss by Hugo Boss, Joop, and Kai K√ºhne. [...]

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Beauty

Big Beauty Companies, Price-Gouging?

LVMH may have just won a landmark case against eBay, but now their beauty division’s in hot water in Germany – According to WWD, there was something of a beauty cartel in Germany up until recently, called “Schlossrunde,” which means “elite circle.” It consisted of quarterly meetings since 1995 between the German subsidiaries of LVMH [...]

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