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Mizrahi Giving
Liz Claiborne
a Makeover

Struggling brand hopes savvy designer will revive slumping sales

Aug 21, 08 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Designer Isaac Mizrahi recently previewed his Liz Claiborne line of women's wear, an extreme makeover that could make or break the company, the Wall Street Journal reports. The brand, which generated almost half of the company's $3.1 billion in sales and more than half of its profits in 2000,... More »

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Liz Claiborne • clothes • fashion designer • Isaac Mizrahi

 Gossip Girl a Fashion Force 

Despite modest ratings, CW show great at selling garments

Jul 8, 08 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - CW’s Gossip Girl has enjoyed only so-so ratings in its first year, but it's become a major trend-setter in fashion for young women, the New York Times reports. Retailers say the show, which features rich and preppy teens, has a huge influence on sales, sort of like a Sex ... More »

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television • fashion • clothing • fashion designer • network television • Gossip Girl • trend • fashion industry

GLOSSIES

 Fashion, Politics Unlikely Mix 

Carla Bruni's outfits something of an obsession, though there's a flip side

Jul 8, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, Hollywood—these days, fashion designers are dying to get their wares on a new kind of celebrity: politicians. The last time Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy visited London, Dior issued no fewer than five press releases on their outfits, and Louis Vuitton has even hired Mikhail Gorbachev as... More »

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Hillary Clinton • fashion • Louis Vuitton • Angela Merkel • Nicolas Sarkozy • Mikhail Gorbachev • Christian Dior • female politicians • Carla Bruni • fashion designer • fashion industry

Appreciation

The Man Who Put Women
in Pants

Saint Laurent made Marc Jacobs and Hillary Clinton possible

Jun 2, 08 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yves Saint Laurent wasn’t just another designer. The man who died last night at 71 was an icon who forever changed the way women dress, Robin Givhan writes in the Washington Post. Start with this: Saint Laurent put women in pants. His elegant designs let women swagger like men,... More »

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fashion • Yves Saint Laurent • fashion designer

This Season's Hot Accessory: The Movie Tie-In

Sex and the City cottage industries look more like penthouses

May 27, 08 10:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - For the innumerable entities cashing in on Sex and the City, the movie due out Friday is the tip of the multimillion-dollar iceberg, reports Forbes. New Line Cinema, which has tie-in deals with eight companies, compares the likely blockbuster to “the Super Bowl for women.” Other high-end... More »

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television • tourism • HBO • Sex and the City • New Line Cinema • Sarah Jessica Parker • Kim Cattrall • fashion designer • product placement • Manolo Blahnik • movie tie-ins

Fashionistas Chase Fleeting Bargains Online

Sites court shoppers with flash sales on designer brands

May 1, 08 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - New online shops are hooking up high-end customers with discount flash sales on luxury goods such as designer bags and shoes. Alerting members via text message, the members-only sites sell items in private sales that often begin immediately and can last just hours. The created frenzy works: Customers of one... More »

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luxury goods • online shopping • fashion designer • Internet sales

 Jenna Picks de la Renta Design 

First daughter makes traditional choice for May 10 Texas nuptials

Apr 15, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jenna Bush will walk down the aisle in a “casual” Oscar de la Renta gown that suits her "organic and low key" May 10 wedding. Think organza, embroidery, matte beading, and a small train, but don’t expect pictures. Her intended, Henry Hager, doesn’t want to see... More »

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Texas • Jenna Bush • wedding • Oscar de la Renta • Henry Hager • brides • wedding dresses • fashion designer • George W. Bush

Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

Designer Westwood collaborates with 7-year-olds for Paris show

Feb 28, 08 3:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Children proved the future indeed for Vivienne Westwood at this year's Paris Fashion Week, with the British designer enlisting three dozen 7-year-olds to help with her latest collection. The British schoolkids painted bugs, plants, and snakes on Westwood’s eco-minded show "Chaos Point," which took to the runway... More »

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climate change • fashion • Paris • runway • Fashion Week • fashion designer • Vivienne Westwood • Sex Pistols

10 Tips for the Stylish Gent

Designer Paul Smith dishes on T-shirts and tailor-made suits

Feb 24, 08 11:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Natty British designer Paul Smith outlines his do's and don'ts for the 21st-century gentlemen in a cagey Details interview. Cologne lovers, beware:
  1. T-shirts seem easy, but they're a big no-no; go with a collar.
  2. A good, bland haircut is better than a failed stylish one.
... More »

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fashion • London • men • list • clothing • manners • grooming • fashion designer • Daniel Day-Lewis • etiquette • Paul Smith • cologne • tailor-made suits

Polyester Sticking to the Runway

Once-disdained fabric makes synthetic splash in spring fashion shows

Feb 20, 08 7:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Once shunned as tacky, scratchy and smelly, polyester was front and center on spring runways this year. "In fashion when something's so hideous, it's great," Marc Jacobs tells W about his use of the synthetic in Louis Vuitton cardigans and skirts. Japanese designers Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake... More »

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fashion • Louis Vuitton • runway • fashion designer • Lanvin • Marc Jacobs • polyester • Rei Kawakubo • Issey Miyake • Commes des Garçons • Alber Elbaz

Fashion Lovers Grow Weary
of Waif Look

Internet, reality TV
spark use of real
people as models

Jan 27, 08 7:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Fashion blogs, "Ugly Betty", and other pop staples are nudging the fashion industry to use more real people as models, Newsweek reports. So are YouTube, reality TV, and a slew of designers who make affordable lines for Target and H&M. "People would like to see somebody up... More »

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fashion • weight • model • blog • Fashion Week • Target • fashion designer

Valentino Bids Fashion Farewell

Designer's swan song marks end of an era

Jan 24, 08 8:52 AM CST
(Newser) - With one last parade of models in languid, lipstick-red gowns, the Italian couturier Valentino Garavani unveiled his final collection last night. “It’s a happy collection,” Valentino told the crowd. “It’s not a collection with tears in between.” But the departure of Valentino, who dressed... More »

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fashion • fashion designer • Valentino • Valentino Garavani • fashion label

Futuristic Geek Chic Hits Catwalk

Catwalk king Raf Simons captivates fashion world

Jan 20, 08 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Futuristic Belgian designer Raf Simons' otherworldly, vividly colored designs had the audience transfixed at Jil Sander's spring/summer 2008 runway show in Milan. "It's something I hear more and more," the confident Simons told the Observer. People tell me that at the shows you can hear a needle drop.... More »

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fashion • fashion designer • Raf Simons • Jil Sander

Canceled Awards Shows Could Cost Fashion Biz

Designers will lose millions in visibility

Jan 9, 08 5:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The writers' strike-canceled Golden Globes will hit designers and the fashion industry hard, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing design houses that rely on red carpet-strutters for priceless exposure that can reverberate for months and years. If a big star wears your dress, that's big money. "It's a crapshoot,... More »

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fashion • Academy Awards • red carpet • Reese Witherspoon • Hollywood writers' strike • Golden Globes • fashion designer • Nina Ricci

Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

Copycat clothes would be blocked for 3 years

Aug 10, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Capitol HIll is considering a bill that would place fashion designs in the same league as a work of art that can be copyrighted, protecting designers from cheap knockoffs for three years. Currently, designers can copyright logos and names, but manufacturers can legally replicate their creations stitch for stitch—and... More »

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fashion • design • copyright • Narciso Rodriguez • clothes • knockoff • fashion designer

Liz Claiborne Dead at 78

Designer was first woman to found Fortune 500  company

Jun 28, 07 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles aimed at career women revolutionized everyday fashion sense in America and brought feminine new looks to the workplace, is dead at 78. She was the first woman founder of a Fortune 500 company. Claiborne died Tuesday in New York, after a lengthy battle with bone... More »

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fashion • women • bone cancer • design • obituary • Liz Claiborne • Ellen Tracy • Dana Buchman • Juicy • Fortune 500 • clothes • fashion designer

Fashionista Ferre Dies at 62

Italian was known as the "architect of fashion"

Jun 18, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre died in Milan yesterday of a brain hemorrhage, at age 62. Ferre became the top designer for Parisian fashion powerhouse Christian Dior, an honor almost exclusively reserved for French designers, in 1989. He left Dior in 1996 to build his own lines, which became some of... More »

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fashion • design • obituary • Donatella Versace • Gianfranco Ferre • clothes • Christian Dior • Milan • fashion designer

Small Labels
Are the New Fashion Stars

Trendy, casual designers are edging out the stalwarts

May 18, 07 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women of all ages are springing for trendier clothes from newer labels, and the fashion industry is scrambling to keep up, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fastest growing segment of the industry is small risk-taking labels that have elevated casual pieces like jeans, t-shirts and  cotton dresses to edgy... More »

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retail • fashion • shopping • consumer • women • marketing • celebrity • clothes • fashion designer

Designer's Pals Rally to Keep Label Alive

Narciso Rodriguez averts bankruptcy
with Claiborne deal

May 7, 07 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Narciso Rodriguez, the designer of sexy minimalist frocks like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's wedding dress, is one of the darlings of the close-knit fashion community. And it's a good thing: When Rodriguez faced bankruptcy last fall, instead of shuttering his studio he called Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Anna Wintour and Jessica... More »

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fashion • Liz Claiborne • acquisition • Narciso Rodriguez • clothes • Bill McComb • fashion designer

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