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Thursday January 17th, 2013

Karlie Kloss Says She Wants To Go To Harvard: ‘Tyra Did It. I Can Do It Too.’
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Karlie Kloss Says She Wants To Go To Harvard: ‘Tyra Did It. I Can Do It Too.’

Karlie Kloss is at the top of her game: She’s beloved by designers; she’s a Vogue favorite; she holds lucrative deals with consumer giants like Victoria’s Secret; she co-hosts MTV’s House of Style with Joan Smalls; she shills her own vegan Karlie’s Kookies with Momofuku Milk Bar; and her haircut was just christened ‘The Karlie’ by the New York Times.

But there’s still a lot more 20-year-old Kloss hopes to accomplish in her career–and one of those things is going to Harvard.

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Published at 10:00 AM

Tuesday August 28th, 2012

Fashion News Roundup: Nordstrom Taps Paraplegic Model for Campaign, Urban Outfitters Makes Some More Offensive T-Shirts, and Vogue Commissions Designer Tennis Balls
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Nordstrom Taps Paraplegic Model for Campaign, Urban Outfitters Makes Some More Offensive T-Shirts, and Vogue Commissions Designer Tennis Balls

Angela Rockwood, one of the paraplegic stars of the Sundance Channel’s show Push Girls, has landed a Nordstrom campaign. {HuffPo} Is your vagina feeling old? Are you looking to, er, tighten things up down there? This vaginal cream sold in India promises to make you feel “18 Again.” Or as they sing in the commercial, Read more →

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Published at 1:49 PM

Tuesday June 28th, 2011

Brooks Brothers is Designing Branded Clothing for 15 of the Country’s Preppiest Colleges
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Brooks Brothers is Designing Branded Clothing for 15 of the Country’s Preppiest Colleges

Brooks Brothers knows that a good percentage of its customer base attends fancy private colleges, probably on the east coast and most definitely part of one league or another (preferably an ivy one).

The brand is finally embracing this fact with gusto by producing, for the first time in its two hundred-year history, a line of college apparel for 15 universities. Behold, the nation’s preppiest student bodies:

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Published at 5:50 PM

Thursday August 6th, 2009

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Dress Like Harvard

Vanity Fair‘s August issue featured an in depth look at Harvard University’s financial unraveling. I read it on the plane back from LA, wide-eyed that the school’s endowment bled $18 billion (half their total endowment) in four months. So now, when I read that Harvard’s started their own clothing line with Wearwolf Group, I wonder Read more →

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Published at 9:03 AM