del.icio.us fashion links for 2007-01-20
Posted by geekigirl on January 19th, 2007
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NEW YORK: It is early January and holiday tourists are storming the steps of the New York Public Library to have their photos taken. Students mill about and there is a scattering of homeless people who have historically made the library’s Bryant Park thei
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Expect the weak finish to the just-completed holiday shopping season to carry through the first half of 2007, as retailers navigate slow economic growth and a lethargic housing market.
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After you’re done outfitting your wardrobe with Coach’s high-end handbags, gloves, hats and scarves, you might also want to consider accessorizing your portfolio with shares of the New York-based company.
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“IT is very easy to go wrong in fashion,” says Howard Davidowitz, a retail consultant. Gap, a fashion retailer that was once one of corporate America’s shining success stories, used to get everything right. Its affordable, trendy clothes epitomised ca
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You didn’t see any celebrity male wearing a silver suit at the Golden Globes? No masculine stars walked the red carpet in a spacesuit? None of them wore yellow fluff as if they were emerging from an egg? There were no Nascar uniform jumpsuits in shiny pla
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You won’t find Second Style or Pixel Pinup at your local newsstand. They are virtual magazines, chronicling the fashion trends of designers in a land that exists online. But where there’s fashion, virtual or no, there’s money to be made. And the cash is v
[...] It’s interesting to speculate on the development as AA becomes more ubiquitous and mainstream – you basically can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting an AA jersey t-shirt, outraged reactionary opinion or genuine brand-love. They are going to be huge in meatspace now. Like Starbucks ubiquitous. Reading about the trials of the Gap these days (via I want – I got) brings the life cycles of fashion companies into focus. But that’s for further reading… [...]