del.icio.us fashion links for 2007-01-20

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

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.

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.

“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

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

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