del.icio.us fashion linksfor October 13, 2008 through October 14, 2008

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Design Observer: The Inventor of the Cowboy Shirt
A few years ago, I found myself lost inside a shopping mall with the man who, in 1946, invented the snap-buttoned cowboy shirt. Jack A. Weil, better known as Jack A, was one hundred and one years old and he was not happy. He was, in fact, highly annoyed. We had wandered into the shirt section of Foley’s Department store in Denver. He was holding up a red-and-blue-striped Tommy Hilfiger. He couldn’t get over the fact that clothes were made anywhere else but in the good 'ol USA. "Call me an isolationist, call me small-minded but why do people buy shirts made in…" — Jack A looked at the label — "Sri Lanka!" - Tags: none
LVMH Profits Up Thanks to Louis Vuitton Monogram Bags — The Cut: New York Magazine's Fashion Blog
Yesterday the stock market lost more points in a single day than it has in 21 years. Some negative thinkers are calling it a crash. But the fashion industry has proved there is a light at the end of this pitch-black tunnel, and it shines thanks to handbags. LVMH announced yesterday revenues actually increased in the third quarter, thanks to "remarkable" sales at Louis Vuitto - Tags: none
Fashion Diary - Where a Naked Body Goes Largely Unnoticed - NYTimes.com
I SEE naked people. This is not because I have the uncanny powers of Haley Joel Osment or because I own X-Ray Specs. It is because looking at naked people is part of my job. Twice a year for a month or so I find myself spending a great deal of time backstage at fashion shows. And few other settings come to mind in which observing or standing alongside or quizzing people who are wearing next to nothing is an occupational … well, hazard is not the word. - Tags: none
Designer Dolls - dispatch - news - fashion week daily
(PARIS) From November 18–23, the Petit Palais, which just played host to a Patrick Demarchelier exhibition last week, will host dozens of "sweet face" dolls created by the world's top designers to benefit UNICEF's vaccination program - Tags: none