del.icio.us fashion links for September 15, 2008

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Halston Alters Its Approach to Design - WSJ.com
As it prepares to unveil its Spring 2009 collection on Tuesday, Halston is a long way from being the fashion powerhouse envisioned when film producer Harvey Weinstein and private-equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital bought the iconic brand for about $25 million last year. - Tags: none
A Designer Aims to Mend His Ways and Earn Respect - NYTimes.com
A YEAR ago, Kai Kühne could not have interested a serious fashion editor in hearing about his umpteenth comeback even if he walked up and slapped her in the face, attempted to set her on fire or pounded down a door. - Tags: none
Most Powerful U.S. Fashion Magazine Editors - Forbes.com
Anna Wintour, for two decades the editrix behind Vogue, is known for helping fledgling talent become fashion stars.
By nominating them for scholarships like the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund, Wintour has helped designers fund runway shows and grow their businesses. Phillip Lim, Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders and Gap's (nyse: GPS - news - people ) Patrick Robinson have credited Wintour with boosting their careers. - Tags: none
Why the Editor of Russian Vogue Is Getting So Much Attention - NYTimes.com
Fishing in her outsize tote, Aliona Doletskaya pulled out her iPhone. “Yes darling, fine darling, everything will go as planned,” she told her caller with the steely authority of a woman long accustomed to having her edicts followed. - Tags: none
The Business of Fashion: Breaking News | 6267 is no more
It is sad when fashion lives up to its cliched stereotype as a world without loyalty and common sense. News is breaking that Tomasso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi, the celebrated duo behind the upstart Italian label 6267, have ditched their manufacturing partner, Castor srl, to start up a new label, rumoured to be backed by ITC, a division of IT Holdings. - Tags: none
Lanvin looking for Eastern investor (Vogue.com UK)
COULD Lanvin be looking to the East for investment?
That's the word in the marketplace according to WWD, which reports that Lanvin owner Shaw-Lan Wang is in talks to sell a stake in the French fashion house to an investment vehicle linked to Qatar's ruling family. - Tags: none
Teen Spending Going Cheap
As parents and employers feel the pinch of the recession, the squeeze is trickling down to teens—who are reinventing their tastes. - Tags: none
Fashion Review - A Gorgeous Facade but Where’s the Awe? - Review - NYTimes.com
At times the spring collections seem unusually murky, like fishing through the hamper for something to wear when you have a hangover. The stone- and wheat-colored linens fade into the crinkled chiffons and abstract plaids: it all becomes a blur and a bore. Missing from the collections, if you rub your eyes and think about it, is a sense of refinement, a choosiness in the details and fabrics, something truly remarkable and not merely expensive. - Tags: none
Fashion Week: S'not Apple - Fashion Blog - Fashion Inc. - Portfolio.com
The runway debut of a new collaboration between HP and Vivienne Tam went largely unnoticed last night–and that could be a good thing.
At the end of Tam's Spring 2009 show, some journalists were left wondering whether the much-touted "digital clutch" had been dropped from the program. Turns out, the lightweight laptops, clad in peony-print lacquer, were so portable and blended so well with the fashions that they were almost invisible on the catwalk. - Tags: none
Lululemon Profits Soar in Q2
NEW YORK — Yoga-inspired sportswear firm Lululemon Athletica Inc. had another cause for inner calm and serenity Thursday as its second-quarter results remained unaffected by current retail woes.
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based retail-vendor hybrid reported Thursday that profits for the quarter ended Aug. 3 were up 117.6 percent to $11.1 million, or 16 cents a diluted share, from 5.1 million, or 7 cents a share, a year ago. Sales in the period rose 47.6 percent to $85.5 million from $57.9 million last year. Same-store sales were up 13 percent on a constant-dollar basis but 18 percent including the impact of currency fluctuation - Tags: none
Fashion fakers meet their match
International fashion houses such as Armani could gain the upper hand over counterfeiters with promising technology developed in New Zealand.
AgResearch yesterday unveiled its textile tracing system, Verifi TT, which can distinguish two identical garments of the same fabric, colour and pattern - Tags: none