Posts Tagged: clothing

Crowd-Sourcing Fashion Solutions

Finally an answer to the question “But how will it look on me?” The e-commerce site Rent the Runway is offering a striking solution: replacing models with regular women, and allowing visitors to search for women of a certain age, height, weight

Crowd-Sourcing Fashion Solutions

Finally an answer to the question “But how will it look on me?” The e-commerce site Rent the Runway is offering a striking solution: replacing models with regular women, and allowing visitors to search for women of a certain age, height, weight

Creative Commerce Debate Rages On

I can’t wait to read this – I’m debating whether to muddle through in French or wait for the translation. Perhaps Mauvais Garcon could become my spring challenge. Art v fashion, is precisely how the journalist and writer Marie-Dominique Lelièvre

Creative Commerce Debate Rages On

I can’t wait to read this – I’m debating whether to muddle through in French or wait for the translation. Perhaps Mauvais Garcon could become my spring challenge. Art v fashion, is precisely how the journalist and writer Marie-Dominique Lelièvre

Boys and Body Image

Further evidence of men’s increasing sensitivity to their physical appearance. So the question is – with whom will these be the biggest hit, boomers hoping to impress the young’ins or already fabulous gay boys? Spanx for Men are finally here.

Boys and Body Image

Further evidence of men’s increasing sensitivity to their physical appearance. So the question is – with whom will these be the biggest hit, boomers hoping to impress the young’ins or already fabulous gay boys? Spanx for Men are finally here.

Mid-Price Luxury Thrives in Tough Times

I’m looking for bright spots to post this week and this article on fashion brands doing well caught my eye. I am particularly heartened to see the booming Isabel Marant numbers. Like every other wannabe honorary French femme, I love

Mid-Price Luxury Thrives in Tough Times

I’m looking for bright spots to post this week and this article on fashion brands doing well caught my eye. I am particularly heartened to see the booming Isabel Marant numbers. Like every other wannabe honorary French femme, I love

Fashion Props: Move Over Who What Wear

I love this unexpected yet so perfectly authentic celebrity endorsement. Spark any thoughts of perfect odd-pairings for your brand? Full article here at the Wall Street Journal. Scroll down (in that link) and watch the video of Mr. Buffett singing

Fashion Props: Move Over Who What Wear

I love this unexpected yet so perfectly authentic celebrity endorsement. Spark any thoughts of perfect odd-pairings for your brand? Full article here at the Wall Street Journal. Scroll down (in that link) and watch the video of Mr. Buffett singing

Parents Spending Less on Back to School Supplies

From Promo Magazine… The average family with students in grades kindergarten through 12 is expected to spend $548.72 on school merchandise, a decline of 7.7% from $594.24 in 2008. Total spending on back to school is expected to reach $17.42

Parents Spending Less on Back to School Supplies

From Promo Magazine… The average family with students in grades kindergarten through 12 is expected to spend $548.72 on school merchandise, a decline of 7.7% from $594.24 in 2008. Total spending on back to school is expected to reach $17.42

Luxury Going Green

From today’s Wall Street Journal: The bad economy and a fundamental shift in the market for luxury goods are forcing an industry that reveres names like Chanel and Versace to embrace a different icon: Mother Nature. Over the past year,

Luxury Going Green

From today’s Wall Street Journal: The bad economy and a fundamental shift in the market for luxury goods are forcing an industry that reveres names like Chanel and Versace to embrace a different icon: Mother Nature. Over the past year,

A Different Kind of Poster Girl

I love the mouth on this girl. Below is a snippet from a recent gush-piece in the Times Online (UK.) Can’t wait to hear the new songs too. Now she’s a hit with the fashion pack, labels such as Dolce

A Different Kind of Poster Girl

I love the mouth on this girl. Below is a snippet from a recent gush-piece in the Times Online (UK.) Can’t wait to hear the new songs too. Now she’s a hit with the fashion pack, labels such as Dolce

The New Frugality

Some great numbers I gathered from NPD, Mintel and Iconoculture on the new frugality. Consumers are following new budgeting habits The need to follow a budget more closely is increasingly a concern for all, with 60% of all respondents (and

The New Frugality

Some great numbers I gathered from NPD, Mintel and Iconoculture on the new frugality. Consumers are following new budgeting habits The need to follow a budget more closely is increasingly a concern for all, with 60% of all respondents (and

More Retail Data – and What It Says About Consumer Attitudes Today

While perusing WWD this afternoon I learned: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. continues to leave everyone else in its wake. Wal-Mart’s flat profits stood in direct contrast to the other stores reporting results Thursday, all of which saw profits declines. Nordstrom Inc.,

More Retail Data – and What It Says About Consumer Attitudes Today

While perusing WWD this afternoon I learned: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. continues to leave everyone else in its wake. Wal-Mart’s flat profits stood in direct contrast to the other stores reporting results Thursday, all of which saw profits declines. Nordstrom Inc.,