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Thursday October 20th, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Urban Pulls All Its “Navajo” Items, Tattoo Barbie Freaks Everyone Out, And It’s a Girl for Carla Bruni
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Urban Pulls All Its “Navajo” Items, Tattoo Barbie Freaks Everyone Out, And It’s a Girl for Carla Bruni

Urban Outfitters Removes All It’s “Navajo” Products: The retailer was distastefully selling items labeled “Navajo,” and received a cease-and-desist letter in June from the Navajo Nation, who has a trademark on the name since, you know, it’s their name and all. After some controversy, all UO’s “Navajo” products have either disappeared or been renamed. {Jezebel}

Katie Grand Awarded Fashion Innovator of the Year: On October 27, The Wall Street Journal is hosting its first-ever awards show to honor “Innovators of the Year,” where Grand will receive the fashion award. Congrats Katie! {WWD}

Tattoo Barbie Makes Moms Everywhere To Freak Out: Tokidoki made a $50 collectible Barbie with pink hair and chest and arm tattoos, so naturally everyone went apeshit and fears their children will turn into hard-partying burnouts like Quinn from Glee. {Jezebel}

Ashley Greene Is The New Face of DKNY: One of our fav Tweters, DKNY PR Girl, announced yesterday that the Twilight star will be the new band ambassadress for DKNY and DKNY Jeans. {DKNY}

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Tuesday May 31st, 2011

Fashion News Roundup: Buy Marylin’s White Dress, Alex Wang Does Swimwear, DvF Does Gap
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Buy Marylin’s White Dress, Alex Wang Does Swimwear, DvF Does Gap

Alex Wang Does Swimwear: Um, yes, please. The king of downtown amazeness is working on a line of women’s swimwear, which he’ll debut this month. And men’s ready-to-wear debuts next month. Boy never stops, does he? {ElleUK}

DvF Falls into the (Baby) Gap: Does your baby need a tiny wrap dress? Diane von Furstenberg thinks so–she’s teaming up with Gap on a children’s collection to prove it. Hat tip to Racked for calling this months ago. {WWD}

Marylin Monroe’s White Dress is For Sale: Actress Debbie Reynolds has apparently been collecting film memorabilia for decades, and will sell the infamous subway grate dress from The Seven Year Itch, along with 3,500 other collectible items. The price for the floating frock? Oh, just a paltry $2 million. {Daily Mail}

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