Category Archives: Fashion

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

February 22, 2013 – 2:09 pm

by Nissa Hanna New York Fashion Week came to a close this past Thursday, as the last of the Fall 2013 collections slipped behind the stages and into long production processes, putting eager consumers on hold until the seasonally appropriate in-store versions arrive. Ordinary shoppers still aren’t able to attend the shows, but that doesn’t […]

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H&M puts families in aesthetic harmony

December 18, 2012 – 1:22 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING H&M is playing stylist for the 2012 holiday portrait season with the launch of its Fashion Family Collection. Matching motorcycle jackets for everyone? Not quite. The line offers complementary styles for hip parents and their ultracool kids. Save for some chic mama jackets that are replicated for sophisticated little girls, […]

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Godless! German shoemaker designs footwear for atheists

May 24, 2012 – 9:11 am

by Inga Seidler WHAT’S HAPPENING Atheist Shoes may sound like a peculiar idea, but godless shoe lovers seem willing to spend €120 on Bauhaus-inspired, 1930s-style footwear that proclaims their lack of belief (VentureVillage.eu, April 2012). Atheist Shoes are made from calfskin, with the phrases “Ich bin Atheist” (“I’m an atheist”) or “Darwin Loves” carved into […]

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At Zoora, every apparel item is open to change

May 15, 2012 – 12:55 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING It happens: Every day, style-bleeding hearts are broken by items that are “almost perfect,” their appeal foiled by personal aversions like a too-short hemline or the wrong neckline. Public beta e-marketplace Zoora fights apparel heartbreak by letting customers personalize select elements of each item’s aesthetic details. It features women’s tops, […]

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Bread & Boxers puts underwear in baguette bags

May 1, 2012 – 2:00 pm

by Kate Connolly WHAT’S HAPPENING Bread & Boxers AB, of Sweden, sells underwear that’s fun to wear and fun to buy. The company’s packaging is a paper bag similar to those used to package baguettes. The white paper bags have a transparent, lengthwise window to display the product. After the underwear is packed in the […]

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Closet computer: Stylitics offers wardrobe audits for data-driven clotheshorses

March 27, 2012 – 11:49 am

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Beta site Stylitics is helping consumers track their personal fashion trends and spends with data-driven charts that analyze what she or he owns, wears and buys. A user uploads personal photos or pulls pics from e-retailers to build her virtual closet, and logs her daily looks into an outfit calendar. […]

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Japanese workers warm up to cold-weather ideas

January 17, 2012 – 2:28 pm

by Misako Kitaoka WHAT’S HAPPENING Just as the Japanese government promoted “Super Cool Biz” to encourage offices and individuals to conserve electricity during the hot summer months, it is promoting “Warm Biz” this winter by asking people to bundle up, eat warming foods, and to keep the thermostat at 20°C (68°F) or lower. The result […]

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Germany: Got milk and style?

December 6, 2011 – 2:10 pm

by Kimberly Ochs WHAT’S HAPPENING Mademoiselle Chi Chi is a new clothing line made from powdered milk. Developed by a Hanover microbiologist and fashion designer in partnership with the Bremen Fibre Institute, the cloth, called Qmilch, is reported to have positive effects on the skin. The milk powder is mixed together with other ingredients in […]

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WHAT’S ITALIAN FOR “FASHION FRENZY”?

September 21, 2011 – 8:06 am

  by Nissa Hanna Hours after the Missoni for Target collection debuted in-store last Tuesday, it disappeared. Items were hurled into red carts so fast that by noon one bummed-out Minneapolis Gen Xer sent word that the downtown store’s shoe aisle was a wreckage of empty boxes and dashed dreams. By 9 p.m. we spotted […]

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FURY OVER FAKES

August 23, 2011 – 12:24 pm

by Michael McCune News from China about Da Vinci’s fake Italian furniture and copycat Apple stores has engendered the usual bemusement around the world. But if marketers scratch the surface of these stories, they’ll uncover an evolution in consumer sentiment — one that’s driving changes in intellectual property rights enforcement. China is indeed rife with […]

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A GENIUS BAR FOR FASHION

July 19, 2011 – 2:30 pm

by Charlotte Beal My husband told me he wanted to “refresh” his wardrobe. Cue the shirts cartoonishly flying out of the closet as he parsed what would go to Goodwill and what was classically hip. Now he has embarked on the procurement phase, which involves finding trusted style advice with a minimum of human interaction. […]

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THE END OF FAST FASHION?

June 29, 2011 – 7:37 am

by Gwyneth Holland It seems that the fast-fashion frenzy, fed by European brands such as H&M, Zara and Primark, is now on the wane, as rising fabric costs, ethical concerns, reprioritized values and even tighter belts affect the high street. The past decade saw key trends hit stores at super-low prices, with daily drops of […]

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Wedding-themed café puts event-planning on the menu

June 2, 2011 – 11:56 am

by Kiran Manral WHAT’S HAPPENING The Wedding Café and Lounge, a new entrant in Mumbai’s vibrant café scene, is neither café nor lounge in its ambience, but a first-of-its-kind fine-dining restaurant that offers a guide to wedding-planning services along with its meals. The decor of the wedding-themed wine-and-dine destination is all-white highlighted by pink and gilt. Its USP is […]

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The punch line: Rocky is creating a clothing collection

April 26, 2011 – 12:31 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING And in this corner, weighing in with his fashion point of view… Sylvester Stallone is working on launching a clothing line inspired by, you guessed it, Rocky and Rambo (WWD.com, 24 March 2011). The Boomer actor and his business partner, Michael Henry, are aiming to debut a 2012 collection that […]

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On both sides of the border, Latino men are undergoing makeovers

April 20, 2011 – 5:00 am

by Abelardo de la Pena Jr. WHAT’S HAPPENING As immigrants continue to stream into the U.S. from Latin America, although at slower rates, their cultural influence continues. They’re shaping the cultural and consumer behavior of U.S. Latino men. Machismo is out; good grooming and work/family balance are in. In various parts of Latin America, the […]

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