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Tuesday December 21st, 2010

Breaking Biz News: LVMH Takes Another Bite Out of Hermes, VF Buys Rock & Republic
The Business

Breaking Biz News: LVMH Takes Another Bite Out of Hermes, VF Buys Rock & Republic

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Big brands love using the holiday season as a time to make major acquisitions. Usually, they wait until a day or two after Christmas, when everyone’s still climbing out of that Honey-Baked Ham hole.

However, this year, the big guns are coming out long before A Christmas Story will even appear on TNT.

To start the morning off right, VF announced their plans to acquire bankrupt denim label Rock & Republic for $57 million.

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Published at 2:45 PM

Thursday June 10th, 2010

Racked Dealfeed: Acne, Geren Ford, Opening Ceremony, & Tons of Denim
Sales

Racked Dealfeed: Acne, Geren Ford, Opening Ceremony, & Tons of Denim

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Opening Ceremony
Deal:30% to 50% off names like Band of Outsiders, Jeremy Scott, Alexander Wang, Patrik Ervell, and Pendleton, plus of course the Opening Cermony in-house line
When/Where: Ongoing. Soho: Mon—Sat 11am—8pm, Sun noon—7pm, 35 Howard St between Broadway and Crosby St (212-219-2688.) Ace Hotel: Sun—Tues 10am—9pm, Weds 11am—7pm, Thurs—Sat 11am—10pm. 1190-1192 Broadway between 28th and 29th Sts, New York. (646-695-5680.)

Acne
Deal: 40% off select spring/summer ’10 stock
When/Where: Ongoing. Mon—Sat 11am—7pm, Sun noon—7pm. 10 Greene St between Grand and Canal Sts (212-625-2828)

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Published at 5:30 PM

Monday April 26th, 2010

Introducing Racked Dealfeed!
Sales

Introducing Racked Dealfeed!

We love to shop, and we love to write about shopping. But how do we keep updated on all those sales and promotions? By reading the shopping coverage on Racked NY, Racked National and Racked LA. So we’ve teamed up with the site to give Fashionista readers a sampling of its top sales in New Read more →

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Published at 6:03 PM

Friday April 2nd, 2010

Rock & Republic Files For Chapter 11
The Business

Rock & Republic Files For Chapter 11

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Rock & Republic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. For those of you who live and die by the brand’s embellished jeans, shoes and handbags, don’t shed a tear just yet: Chapter 11 doesn’t always mean the company is going to shutter. In Rock & Republic‘s case, filing for bankruptcy protection gives it Read more →

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Published at 9:45 AM

Thursday March 25th, 2010

Next Fall’s Denim: Hudson, JBrand, & More
Market Week

Next Fall’s Denim: Hudson, JBrand, & More

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This week’s been packed with market appointments, specifically, denim previews. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve seen, and what you’ll see next fall. Hudson: The brand’s based out of LA, designed by Ben Taverniti, who’s French, and features UK flags everywhere, but they showed their collection in midtown New York on Monday. Skinny still reigned, Read more →

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Published at 4:33 PM

Wednesday March 25th, 2009

Would You Wear

Would You Wear Faux-Denim Leggings?

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Would you wear faux-denim legging jean things? To clarify, those would be leggings screen printed to look like jeans with pockets, buttons, seams and sometimes even different washes and wrinkles for an authentic touch. But seriously, we were at the Rock & Republic showroom this morning, which you already know, and one of the mannequins Read more →

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Published at 3:08 PM
Fashion Is Fun

Rock & Republic’s New Wrap

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Published at 12:57 PM

Thursday February 5th, 2009

First Look: Roitfelds Do Mango

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Word broke awhile back that Julia Roitfeld would be the Spring 09 face of Mango following campaigns with Gap, Tom Ford and Rock & Republic. She’s joined by her brother and Lily Donaldson beau Vladimir (chosen for their position in “the new generation of European high society”) as well as Dakota Griffith – Melanie and Read more →

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Published at 3:42 PM

Thursday June 12th, 2008

People We Like

Carine’s Kids, Rock & Republic

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There’s a juicy piece of information tucked into a WWD article this morning – Julia Restoin-Roitfeld just shot her baby brother, Vladimir, for Rock & Republic’s new ad campaign. We’ll ignore for a second that Carine’s spawn should be posing for the likes of Alaia or even Earnest Sewn, something a bit edgier than Victoria Read more →

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Published at 10:30 AM

Sunday February 3rd, 2008

Fashion Week

Rock & Republic Crowd

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“Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?” Some pretty (one handsome) faces from Rock & Republic… –PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST For more, check out RoidRage.

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Published at 12:19 PM