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del.icio.us fashion links for December 1, 2008

del.icio.us fashion links for December 1, 2008: Lagerfeld's Silent Film Homage to Coco Chanel - Fashion News - WWD.com glamorous, big-budget short film of the silent variety will premiere in Paris this week, and it’s all due to Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, who donned a director’s hat and let rip his encyclopedic knowledge of Gabrielle Chanel’s [...]

Links for 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]

• Are these the Ugg-liest boots in the world? - Telegraph
  Hilary Alexander comments on Ugg's famous boots and the celebrity-clad groups that have been spotted out in them...
• Will the Economic Slump Alter February Fashion Week?
  As retail sales continue to decline, speculation comes that the traditional runway shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in February may be nixed in favor of cheaper, smaller-scale presentations. IMG Fashion, the organizer of the shows that take place in the tents at Bryant Park, only recently started taking bookings for February, but is prepping for this different style of show.
• Luella Bartley in profile - Telegraph
  Hilary Alexander brings us a special profile piece on the extremely well established British designer, Luella Bartley
• CEO Talk | Camilla Skovgaard, Shoe designer and entrepreneur
  Camilla Skovgaard is one of those rare aberrations of the current economic malaise.
• Has Abercrombie Lost Its Shirt?
  "Skimpy" has always been Abercrombie & Fitch's (NYSE: ANF) theme. Apparently, it's not limited to the company's apparel and models. Stripping down to just $896.3 million in sales, or 8% lower than last year's showing, Abercrombie's third-quarter top line felt the brunt of the consumer slowdown. Overall comps dropped 14%, and extra markdowns shed 20 basis points from the gross margin
• The Business of Fashion: CEO Talk | Natalie Massenet, Chairman and Founder of Net-a-Porter
  When Natalie Massenet talks, people listen. It wasn't always that way. When Massenet first proposed the idea of selling luxury products online in 1999, she faced more than a few doubters. Nobody doubts her now.
• Heard on the Runway - WSJ.com : Lunchtime Snap: The Continuing Decline of Makeup Sales
  Makeup sales are sagging, along with the economy. U.S. sales of makeup decreased 3% to reach $2.6 billion from January through Oct. 31 2008, compared with the same time period a year earlier, according to the latest numbers released today by market-research firm NPD Group. The numbers reflected a worsening of the sales decline that the industry had seen earlier in the year — U.S. makeup sales were down 2% from January through Sept. 30, NPD says.
• Harem pants: Better left on the runway
  Whatever happened to normal pants? Droopy, drop-crotch pants have been on the fashion radar since last year (thanks, Hedi, Balmain and Balenciaga). Variously called Thai fisherman's trousers, dhoti, sarouel or kurta pants depending on the culture and the silhouette, these baggy wonders, which I first thought were a fad (like ultra-skinny jeans and high-waisted flares), are, according to magazine fashion reports, a lasting look.
• Pierre Cardin praises Putin’s style - Pravda.Ru
  Fashion designer Pierre Cardin has become an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts at the ceremony which took place in Moscow Thursday. The legendary designer made a special visit to Moscow to attend the event. It became Cardin’s 32nd visit to Russia.
• Lagerfeld's Silent Film Homage to Coco Chanel - Fashion News - WWD.com
  glamorous, big-budget short film of the silent variety will premiere in Paris this week, and it’s all due to Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, who donned a director’s hat and let rip his encyclopedic knowledge of Gabrielle Chanel’s early years.

Rescheduled - Richard Martin Clothing Sample Sale Fall 2008

THIS SALE IS RESCHEDULED!!!!! Richard Martin Clothing Sample Sale Fall 2008 2 Days only! Saturday & Sunday 11AM - 5PM December 6 & 7, 2008 703 Queen Street East @Broadview Ave. (google it) Soma Lounge 416-778-7662 Great Deals on Silver Jeans & 1921 Denim Cult Brand (Australia) English Laundry (UK) Loyal Army (California) Amika Jeans (Montreal) Yarn Craft Denim Masi Quick Reflex and more… Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, [...]

Sparkle Frosty DIY Decorating Party & Holiday Sale

Sparkle Frosty DIY Decorating Party & Holiday Sale It’s time to get festive, and you’re invited! This Thursday December 4th please join us for a night of pen, ink, paint, glue, and glitter as we turn blank toys into Christmas Miracles! For one special night, the Magic Pony Gallery will be transformed into our own Elfin DIY decorating [...]

Fashion Trends Fall Winter 2009 - 2010

F/W 2009-10, International Trend Forecasting Report For Fashion Business Premiere Vision Color Trends Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 Theatrical Colors Give Glamour to Stahl’s Fashion Color Forecast for Autumn/Winter 2009/10 Stahl’s Color Forecast for Autumn / Winter 2009 - 2010 TFL Fashion & Color Inspirations Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Color Forecast Guide 2008-2010 CIFF Trends 2009/2010 Copyright © 2008 This feed is [...]

Vanguard Apparel Sample Sale

Vanguard Apparel Sample Sale Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: be46a58d62e58135a68436a838c1de0a (66.150.96.121) )

The New Boys Club of Canadian Fashion

I got this little gem by email today. It features some of my favourite Canadian designers. Dean Davidson Mikhael Kale Philip Sparks Lucian Matis - Autoplays music, watch your speakers Greta Constantine Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in [...]

Buy Local Week 2008

During BUY LOCAL WEEK December 1-7, think LOCAL FIRST! Ten Reasons to Buy Local 1. Money spent at locally-owned businesses goes around longer in the local economy as local business people pay for all kinds of local services, spend their profits and pay taxes locally. Purchasing locally helps grow other businesses and the Toronto tax base. 2. Local [...]

del.icio.us fashion links for December 1, 2008

del.icio.us fashion links for December 1, 2008: Tiffany Profit Drops, Cuts Forecast as Sales Fall (Update3) Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Tiffany & Co., the world’s second- largest luxury-jewelry retailer, said profit fell and cut its forecast as sales dropped for the first time in almost seven years amid the global financial crisis. Tiffany predicted full-year earnings of [...]

charlie boutique Customer Appreciation Night!

charlie boutique Customer Appreciation Night! Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: be46a58d62e58135a68436a838c1de0a (66.150.96.121) )

Links for 2008-11-29 [del.icio.us]

• H&M to launch homeware collection in February 09
  It’s time to inject fashion into the home. Early 2009 will see H&M revolutionizing the way style-savvy consumers shop for home textiles and accessories. Exclusively available online and through a directional mail order catalogue, this is H&M’s first foray into the interiors arena and will offer shoppers the opportunity to stylishly transform every room of the home. The first collection will be available from February 2009 in the markets where distance selling is already established: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

geekiviews: Vera Wang Look

I went to the launch of Vera Wang’s new perfume, Look. It was sponsored by Fashion Magazine and held at Panorama. It was a fun event and I spent time with friends and enjoyed the view. That’s me in the picture at the bar. Yup, the mustard tights. Love them! [...]

Links for 2008-11-27 [del.icio.us]

• Sarah Jessica Parker Looking for New Home for Bitten
  Mega-chain Steve & Barry’s has been having financial woes for the past few months, including multiple bankruptcy filings, which has led us to wonder what is happening to their star lines? Remember, Amanda Bynes, Stephon Marbury and Sarah Jessica Parker have all designed affordable fashion lines for the stores. NYMag.com caught up with SJP last night, who revealed she is looking for a new home for her Bitten line. “We have a lot of home offers,”
• Owner of Fashion Bug, Lane Bryant plans more store closings
  Charming Shoppes Inc., the Pennsylvania-based parent company of the Fashion Bug, Catherines, and Lane Bryant retail chains, plans to close more stores across the country after posting mounting losses for the third quarter and year-to-date periods. In a quarterly financial filing dated Nov. 25, company officials announced the closing of as many as 100 additional stores during fiscal year 2010. The company also posted a net loss in the third quarter of $92.9 million, or 81 cents per share. That was far worse then the same period a year ago when the company had net losses of $3.5 million, or 3 cents per share.

Links for 2008-11-26 [del.icio.us]

• U.S. retailers accused of mislabelling furs
  WASHINGTON–The Humane Society of the United States has filed a lawsuit against six major retailers and fashion designers alleging they falsely advertise and label fur garments. The suit claims that Dillard's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and designer Andrew Marc misrepresent fur products by labelling and marketing them as "faux fur," when they are not; or by advertising and labelling products as common raccoon, fox or rabbit fur, when they are really made from raccoon

Links for 2008-11-25 [del.icio.us]

• MATTHEW WILLIAMSON BRINGS SUN TO H&M THIS SUMMER
  H&M is proud to announce that the next guest designer will be Matthew Williamson, the British designer whose colour-drenched collections always carry the promise of the sun. Starting with an exclusive women’s fashion range at selected stores April 23, then continuing with the perfect men’s and women’s pieces for Summer available from mid-May in all H&M stores world wide. In an exclusive for H&M, Williamson will debut his first ever menswear pieces.
• Avant-Garde Fashion Might Be on Hiatus, But That Doesn’t Mean Consumers Don't Want It -- The Cut: New York Magazine's Fashion Blog
  Has the economy killed avant-garde fashion? According to a lengthy article in WWD, avant-garde designs, save those by a select few like Gareth Pugh and Bernard Willhelm, have fallen by the wayside. Fashion designers want to sell clothes consumers want to buy, and avant-garde does not fall under that umbrella anymore. Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele says, “Most people want very familiar, nonthreatening-looking clothes.”

Links for 2008-11-24 [del.icio.us]

• Lucien Lelong: the man who saved Paris - Telegraph
  Where would French fashion be without Lucien Lelong? Probably in Berlin, that's where. Linda Grant on the dressmaker who stood up to Nazis – and won.
• Madonna's fashion faux pas - Telegraph
  Having trawled through several thousand images of Madonna taken over the last 12 or 15 years, I have come to the conclusion, reluctantly, perhaps, that Madonna simply has no style. Either that or she really hates clothes.
• Alexander Wang scoops CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award - Telegraph
  An A-list fashion pack turned out to watch young American designer Alexander Wang steal the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award, worth US $200,000
• The Olsen Twins: America's Perpetual Pint-Size Ingenues - washingtonpost.com
  The Olsen twins, who have written a new book called "Influence," occupy a curious place in popular culture. They have one foot in adult society and one foot in childhood. When those two worlds collide, the result creeps us out. And it makes the Olsens strangely compelling viewing.
• Deeper Meaning Below A Glossy Surface - washingtonpost.com
  The fashion industry has always struggled to burnish its image as something more than a vessel for insecurities, pretentiousness and superficiality. At times this struggle must seem particularly Sisyphean for editors of fashion magazines -- with their wrinkle creams, in-and-out lists and miracle diets -- who are trying to make a case for their social awareness and desire to do more good than harm.
• Steve & Barry's to liquidate remaining 173 stores | Markets | Bonds News | Reuters
  NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Three months after purchasing apparel chain Steve & Barry's out of bankruptcy, the new owners will liquidate the remaining 173 stores after plans to operate the chain fell victim to slumping retail sales and difficulty in getting financing.
• American Apparel CEO Charney Profile
  The government is after him because he crusades for illegal-immigrant workers. The lawyers are after him because of the three (so far) sexual-harassment lawsuits. This might be enough to bring down the C.E.O of most publicly traded companies but for American Apparel founder Dov Charney it's just another day at the office.
• Who's the Most Adaptable Retailer?
  The holiday season of 2008 may go down in history as one of the biggest nail-bitters in the last few decades. Motley Fool analysts have assessed the state of retail going into this critical season -- the stocks, sales strategies, consumer trends -- and identified the winners and losers at the mall and in investors' portfolios. Click here for the complete report