del.icio.us fashion links for November 24, 2008:
- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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. - 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. - Some Clothes and Accessories Shown in Fashion Magazines Don’t Really Exist – NYTimes.com
A FEW weeks ago, the editors of Vogue responded to the unfolding global economic crisis with a gesture that was both practical and, for Vogue, magnanimous: a gift guide for its December issue in which all of the featured goodies cost less than $500.
