del.icio.us fashion links for November 2, 2009:
- ‘Gucci’ biopic doesn’t suit the family – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety
Ridley Scott’s "Gucci" biopic, now fast-tracked by Fox 2000, is not looking like a good fit with the Gucci family in Italy.The Guccis, who sold their fashion house in the 1990s when fierce clan infighting segued into murder, are up in arms about plans for cameras to start rolling in 2010 on what is being billed as a decadent fashion-family murder drama with Angelina Jolie in talks to play purported dark lady Patrizia Reggiani, who is serving a 26-year sentence for plotting the murder of her husband, Maurizio Gucci.
- Robin Givhan on Fashion: Christian Louboutin’s fans are hot on his heels – washingtonpost.com
The French shoe designer Christian Louboutin recently made his first trip to Washington to greet his fans at Neiman Marcus in Tysons Galleria, where he signed the distinctive red soles of his famously artful slingbacks and sandals. Louboutin's heels are favorites among fashion's usual suspects: starlets, editors, stylists. - La Senza sharpens its focus – The Globe and Mail
La Senza parent Limited Brands is returning the chain to its bra-and-panty roots and defining its three banners more clearly - The Rebirth Of The Sample Sale
Sample sales are an amazing resource for marked down goods for both mainstream and luxury brands. Online private sample sales are picking up serious speed. Here is how they work: big designers, such as Marc Jacobs or Versace, place excess inventory on a sale site at 50 to 70 percent discounts over a several day period.
