Antonia Boutique in Milan (video)

FashionTV heads to Antonia Boutique in Milan. Fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni tells us, "It's really beautiful, a dream. I remember the first time I went to Antonia, when I entered the shop, in the old boutique, and I was really amazed by all these beautiful things, by all these shoes, bags, etc."

Appearances: Eleonora Carisi, Chiara Ferragni, Antonia Giacinti, Marco Braga, Giuliano Federico,

Music: Radkey "Out Here in My Head"

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Duvetica Fall/Winter 2013-14 Photo Shoot Behind-the-Scenes video

FashionTV presents this behind-the-scenes video of the making of the Duvetica Fall/Winter 2013-14 ad campaign. Duvetica is an Italian down jacket brand founded by Giampiero Vagliano and Stefano Rovoletto. They launched Duvetica in the Japanese market in 2005. The collections are designed by a Japanese-Italian duo, where the Italian designer also acts as a colour forecasting consultant in the yarn industry. In other words, she is one of the select few who sit and decide which colours will dominate two years ahead in time. Duvetica jackets have a tailored feel with clearly defined fits, which is uncommon in the down jacket market.

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Fashion Trends Spring/Summer 2014 video

Fashion Trends Spring/Summer 2014
FashionTV leaves the runways to check out the fashion trends happening on the streets during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York. Paris and Nicky Hilton show us what urban chic looks like, with Paris' little black dress with leather sleeves and Nicky's leather shorts paired with an "I Love Nueva York" shirt and bright red pointy-toed pumps.

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Portugal Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 video

Portugal Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 in Lisbon | FashionTV heads to Lisbon to check out the shows at Portugal Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014. We bring you collections from Luis Buchinho, Daniela Barros, Katty Xiomara, Luis Onofre, Alves/Goncalves, Susana Bettencourt, Fatima Lopes, Joao Melo Costa, Diogo Miranda, and Felipe Oliveira Baptista.

Victoria Beckham Is the Most-Searched Fashion Designer of 2013
Mashable-6 hours agoShare
Much like the fashion industry itself, this year's search trends for top designers were ever-evolving. In the U.S., fashion icon and designer ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.: Sears to spin off Lands' End business - Business Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com: "Still, Sears continues to face losses. In November it reported a wider third quarter loss as revenue declined 7 percent to $8.27 as the company marked down goods heavily to move merchandise.
Lands' End, which sells clothing and home goods on the Internet and through catalogs, began in 1963 as a sailboat hardware and equipment catalog, but morphed into a clothing company by 1977. Sears bought the company in 2002."

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Rave on the Beach: Salon De La Lingerie Spring/Summer 2014 video

PARIS - Rave on the Beach: Salon De La Lingerie Spring/Summer 2014 video

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FashionTV Party at Life Club in Monaco video

FashionTV Party at Life Club in Monaco video

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York Spring/Summer 2014 video

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York Spring/Summer 2014 video

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Fashion Trends for Winter 2014: Part 2 | Sao Paulo Fashion Week video

Fashion Trends for Winter 2014: Part 2, Sao Paulo Fashion Week video - SAO PAULO - FashionTV stepped away from the catwalk to check out the local fashion scene of all the guests at Sao Paulo Fashion Week

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Fashion Trends for Winter 2014 | Sao Paulo Fashion Week video

SAO PAULO - FashionTV stepped away from the catwalk and onto the streets to check out the local fashion scene during Sao Paulo Fashion Week -- lots of black leather, from the shoes, pants, leggings and jackets...

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Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Miami Beach 2013, Fashion

At Art Basel Miami Beach, Squeezing Art Out of the Picture - NYTimes.com: "Let’s play a game: Are the following parties taking place during New York Fashion Week or Art Basel Miami Beach?A brunch to toast a T-shirt designed by Visionaire and Gap. A cocktail party to celebrate a new fashion fair. A dinner hosted by Louis Vuitton for a modernist beachfront house. A Dom Pérignon party hosted by the playboys Alex Dellal, Stavros Niarchos and Vito Schnabel?..."

Fashion Brands Get on the Basel Bandwagon - Ocean Drive: ".....designers have been inspired particularly by the excitement of Art Basel Miami Beach, invigorating Miami once again this December. For Kris Van Assche, creative director of Dior Homme (161 NE 40th St., Miami), the energy of the city informed his men’s ready-to-wear Spring 2014 collection. Building on the classic slim-fit black Dior Homme suit, the collection gets an infusion of Miami-minded fun, color, and energy.... “"

NADA X American Apparel for NADA Miami Beach 2013 | Complex: "A limited edition line of artist-designed clothing hits the shelves during the NADA Miami Beach art fair, a satellite event to Art Basel Miami Beach. Featuring the work of four contemporary artists—Anya Kielar (of Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York), Andrew Kuo (of Marlborough Chelsea, New York), Cary Leibowitz (of Invisible-Exports, New York), and Scott Reeder (housed at Lisa Cooley, New York)—a new piece of clothing will be released each day of the fair, December 5 – 8. Read more at:
http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/11/nada-american-apparel-nada-miami-beach-2013

Shopping & Fashion Events Art Basel 2013 | miami.com: "You're go-to guide for public shopping and fashion events during Art Basel Miami Beach 2013."--go to link above

What to Wear to Miami Art Basel: The Webster’s Laure Hériard Dubreuil on Art Fair Fashion - Vogue Daily - Fashion and Beauty News and Features: "The number of creative happenings crammed onto the social calendar at Art Basel in Miami seems to grow exponentially each year...."

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Falguni and Shane Peacock, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 video

Falguni and Shane Peacock, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 video

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Edun, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 video

Edun - New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

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Venexiana, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 (video)

Venexiana - New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

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CZAR by Cesar Galindo - New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 (video)

CZAR by Cesar Galindo - New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

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Reem Acra, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

Reem Acra, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

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Theyskens' Theory, New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

Theyskens' Theory - New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

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Anya Hindmarch video, Building a Bag Brand

Anya Hindmarch: Building a Bag Brand - Suzy Menkes sits down with the accessories designer to discuss the evolution of her brand and her design inspiration.

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Fall Style in Boston (video)

Fall Style in Boston video: in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, residents are inspired by the change of seasons, old relationships and the Beastie Boys.

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Neo-Goth Makeup (video)

Follow these easy steps to create the neo-goth look at home.

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Amazon, Fashion, Brooklyn studio opening

Amazon woos fashion industry as studio opens - Times Leader: " . . . Fashion is one of those emerging businesses at Amazon that has Bezos’ attention. While Amazon has sold apparel, shoes and accessories for years, the company has intensified its focus on the category in the past few years. In addition to the apparel site on Amazon.com, the company owns the flash-sale site MyHabit.com, shoe-seller Zappos.com and the fashionista site ShopBop.com. Already, Amazon has 35 million active customers shopping for clothes, making the profitable, multibillion-dollar-a-year business the company’s fastest-growing category, said Amazon Fashion president Cathy Beaudoin. And Amazon’s ambitions for the apparel business are as vast as the inside of the new photo studio. “We want to be a great department store, like Bloomingdales, Nordstrom and Saks,” Beaudoin said. “But what we have that they don’t have is unlimited shelf space.”. . . "

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Miami Design District Lures Luxury Stores

Many high-end brands have left behind Bal Harbour Shops, for years a magnet to the wealthy, for more breathing room in Miami’s Design District.--

Upstart in Miami Lures Luxury Stores From a Chic Citadel - NYTimes.com: " . . . a string of big-name tenants — Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Cartier and others — has been abandoning Bal Harbour’s rarefied confines for a scruffy city neighborhood 10 miles away. More than a dozen other Bal Harbour tenants, including Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Fendi and Harry Winston, have signed leases in the area and are expected to follow. Their destination is the Miami Design District . . . . While New York and Los Angeles have long been magnets for high-end shoppers, Miami’s popularity as an attraction for moneyed foreigners, particularly from Latin America and Russia, has created an increasingly vibrant luxury market. More than 70 percent of Bal Harbour’s sales these days are to foreign customers. Brazilians, in particular, have become so important that many of the stores in Bal Harbour employ Portuguese speakers. . . ." (read more at link above)

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Art, Fashion, BFFs

How art and fashion became BFFs | Fashion | The Guardian: "Chanel at Frieze, Prada's street vibe, Burberry's latest Hockney look – designers are in an arty frame of mind. . . ."

Louis Vuitton names designer Nicolas Ghesquiere to replace Marc Jacobs at ...
Washington Post
PARIS — Louis Vuitton has named Nicolas Ghesquiere as its new artistic director, replacing the outgoing Marc Jacobs with the designer best known for his ties to the Balenciaga fashion house. Louis Vuitton announced the appointment on its official ...

British Fashion House Prints In-house with manroland
What They Think
One of the UK's most prestigious fashion houses has ordered a Manroland press to print its own high-quality literature. David Nieper, a designer and manufacturer of women's knitwear, nightwear and clothing, will take delivery of the ROLAND 704LV ...

10 Essential Fashion Lessons from 90s Movies
Cosmopolitan
There's more to take away from killer fashion moments in 90s movies than just the amazing outfits. Amidst all the makeover montages and slow motion walks down staircases are lessons to be learned like how to express one's self through crop tops, the ...

Vicuna, Subway Fashion Show and Marilyn Monroe
Bloomberg
More on this another top trending stories, i'm joined by former harper's bazaar fashion director who is also now using her expertise as the founder of a nonprofit glam for good. This is a new material. It is not a new material. You used to be arrested ...

Miami Fashion Network to launch online platform of trade resources on Thursday
MiamiHerald.com
Miami Fashion Network said that on Thursday it is launching its first online platform of fashion trade resources, built to better service the needs of business owners and emerging and established designers in South Florida. The website, founded by ... more info: http://miamifashionnetwork.com/

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Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2014 Show video

Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2014 Show (short version)
NEW YORK - FashionTV snags a seat in the front row at the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2014 show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York. Starting off the show were strong, black and white prints and color-blocks coming in mod silhouettes, on tennis sweaters, on mini-skirts, and on striped jackets. For evening, there were fragile silk evening dresses, in acid-green, deep blue, and orange, which cater to the woman who likes to stand out a party. A few of the most memorable pieces include a deep red dress with a low-v neck and one with a long dramatic cape, which caught the wind as the model graced the runway.

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Twenty Jeans (video)

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) –- Twenty Jeans President Mark Lynn and Twenty Jeans Founder and CEO Corey Epstein discuss providing quality denim at a low price and how Twenty Jeans uses big data. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg) http://bloom.bg/165P7D3

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Roberto Cavalli video

Roberto Cavalli: Power Lies With My Children: Video - Bloomberg: "Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) –- Roberto Cavalli’s style is still unmistakable after over 40 years in the fashion business. But as he looks to the future of the industry and of his company he says the real power lies with his children. (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Fashion Week, Social Media, Lessons Learned

Fashion Week Social Media Lessons Learned
Women's Wear Daily
Buyers, chief executives, editors, stylists, bloggers and pretty much anyone even vaguely associated with the fashion weeks sent out tweets and photos about anything and everything to do with them. Which is why, experts contend, all that effort might ...(read more at link above)

Los Angeles Fashion Week Kicks Off With 'Designer and the Muse'
Women's Wear Daily
L.A.'S TURN: The weeks-long series of fashion proceedings that is Los AngelesFashion Week made a glamorous debut Thursday night with “Designer and the Muse,” an event put on by á LA Mode Productions at the Sofitel Los Angeles. Among the ...

Fashion's True Leading Economic Indicator - Forbes
Dark nail polish would qualify as a leading indicator—telling people things were headed into the porcelain plumbing before it was otherwise evident.
www.forbes.com/sites/.../fashions-leading-economic-indicator/

Top 10 Fashions and Flubs for Spring 2014 - WSJ.com
Here's a cheat sheet to the highs, lows, and top trends seen on the runways from New York to Paris.
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052702303722604579111303...

Women's Fashion Turns to Menswear for Tips - WSJ.com
Women with an eye for timeless tailoring have long sought out clothes in the men's department. Now high-end stores are making it easier to cross the aisle.
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052702303342104579101660...

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Fashion photographer Viviane Sassen

Fashion photographer Viviane Sassen: a different take | Fashion | The Observer: "Like a handful of mavericks before her – Guy Bourdin and Juergen Teller spring to mind – Sassen has reinvented the form by following her instincts. What is striking about her images is that the clothes and the models are mere props for her imagination: a pair of legs stick through holes in a wall; a girl with a bright red face leans over on a pavement as if defying gravity. She uses mirrors, scissors, paint and Photoshop to mess with the viewer's preconceptions about what a fashion photograph is. It is a long way from the glossiness of Vogue, closer to a post-digital photographic surrealism, though Sassen often still shoots on film and applies Photoshop "in the most amateur and unfinished way". She is, she says, "always impatient and eager to finish" and finds the constraints of "all the hair and make-up stuff" too frustrating. . . " (read more at link above)

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The Armani Experience

The Armani Experience - NYTimes.com: " . . . For one thing, Mr. Armani is vastly more wealthy, worth an estimated $8.5 billion, much of that acquired since the recession. He has 9 homes and a 213-foot yacht. In the late ’80s, . . . In those days, he entertained three or four nights during the collections, taking advantage of his Peter Marino-designed palazzo. The shows were held in the basement theater, which seated 200 and was crammed. “He did go to great pains to be social,” an executive said. But the biggest difference is that Mr. Armani is now 79. He survived a severe case of hepatitis two years ago. Why should he listen to anybody? On top of that, he is the sole owner of a nearly $3 billion business. “Maybe in our world we feel he’s a little passé, but he owns every store and factory,” said a former executive, adding with a chortle: “He’s a big industrialist. He doesn’t care! He probably had to be talked into meeting at home, but wasn’t going to sit down for lunch. . . .” (read more at link above)

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Bricks and Mortar, the Internet, Retail Fashion

When the high street meets the internet | Lauren Laverne | Fashion | The Observer: " . . . So I applaud Asos's record rise in sales (up 47% to £208m in its final quarter to the end of August). Its customers are right, too: online retailers are part of the high street. The bricks-and-mortar version must offer experiences, products and services that online retailers can't, whether that's advice, a bra that fits or a place to socialise. . . ." (read more at link above)

Fashion Industry Veteran Launches Online Library of Design Video Tutorials
Fashionista
As anyone with cable TV knows, there are so many online colleges these days that you can learn just about any trade whilst sitting on your couch in your pajamas. Now, you can add fashion design to that list of trades thanks to newly-launched University ...

Fashion Design the Focus of New Online Education Portal
Women's Wear Daily
HOME SCHOOL: It doesn't have a football team or even a physical campus, but the University of Fashion can teach users how to design from the comfort of their own homes. Universityoffashion.com is the brainchild of Francesca Sterlacci, former chairman...

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Celebrity-Inspired Fashion, the Bronx (video)

Celebrity-Inspired Fashion in the Bronx: "Celebrity-Inspired Fashion in the Bronx - By Natalia V. Osipova and Joanna Nikas - Chaveli Gil, who grew up in the Bronx, says her style is inspired by Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, and sometimes Kim Kardashian."

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Paris Fashion Week, Textures (video)

Paris Fashion Week Elements | Texture: Explore the notion of texture in the first of thematic visual diaries from Paris Fashion Week.

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Paris Fashion Week, Silhouettes (video)

Paris Fashion Week Elements | Silhouette: Explore the many silhouettes at Paris Fashion Week.

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Dutch bike culture, Fashion, Style (video)

Intersection: Style on Dutch Wheels: In De 9 Straatjes section of Amsterdam, Roxy Frey’s comfortable style is inspired by Dutch bike culture.

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Paris Fashion Week, Many Characters (video)

Paris Fashion Week: Elements | Character: Explore the many characters of Paris Fashion Week.

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ELIE SAAB Fashion Show Spring Summer 2014 Paris Fashion video

ELIE SAAB Fashion Show Spring Summer 2014 Paris Fashion video

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Burberry Prorsum Womenswear S/S14 shot entirely with iPhone 5s

Full Show - Burberry Prorsum Womenswear S/S14 - shot entirely with iPhone 5s
English Rose - The Burberry Prorsum Womenswear Spring/Summer 2014 show, shot entirely with the iPhone 5s and edited in-house at Burberry. Celebrating rich British fabrics and expert craftsmanship, the Spring/Summer 2014 runway features intricate English lace and Scottish knitted cashmere in vibrant pastels and soft powdery hues. Filmed in London on Monday 16 September 2013

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Video - Model Behavior Storms Social Media

Video - Model Behavior Storms Social Media - WSJ.com: "Model Behavior Storms Social Media
Runway models, long cast as expressionless figures showcasing Fashion Week's finest wears, are finding their own voice on social media. Sometimes that can land them big endorsement deals. Or, it can backfire. Leslie Yazel explains. Photo: facebook.com/officialKateUpton."

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Ballet, Fashion, Spring 2014 Runway Photos

At the New York City Ballet, a new season brings three new ballets and a new collaboration with three fashion designers: Prabal Gurung, Iris van Herpen and Olivier Theyskens.

Spring 2014 Runway Photos - NYTimes.com Fashion

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Latest Trends From Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (Video)

The Latest Trends From Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: Video - Bloomberg: "Deborah Curtis, VP of entertainment marketing at American Express, and Kathy Brady, CEO of Vente-Privee USA, discuss Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Most Stylish New Yorkers on StyleCaster (video)

See the 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers on StyleCaster: Video - Bloomberg: "Stylecaster Media Group Founder and CEO Ari Goldberg discusses fashion week highlights with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves." (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Fashion Week, Ralph Lauren, Spring 2014 (video)

Fashion Week Ralph Lauren Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014 57133
Fashion Week Ralph Lauren Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014 - As a label used to showcasing its latest collection on the last day of fashion week, Ralph Lauren surprises with a summer wardrobe dominated mostly by black and white. The grand final concludes with a high point filled with colours that make the eye explode, worked closely to produce long dresses that lightly float around the body in nuances of Klein blue, mandarin orange, green apple, canary yellow and poppy red...The silhouette of the day is super short, with an abundance of mini-skirts, outrageous jackets and shirts accessorized with flowery ties. This boyish look of high-waisted trousers, a buttoned-up shirt and a high neck pays homage to the designer's wife...who, as usual, he remembers to kiss as he slips onto the runway at the end. 

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Fashion Week, Nanette Lepore, Spring 2014 (video)

Fashion Week Nanette Lepore Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014
Fashion Week Nanette Lepore Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014

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Fashion Week, Michael Kors, Spring 2014 (video)

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Fashion Week Michael Kors Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014
Fashion Week Michael Kors Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Spring 2014

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Kenneth Cole, Embracing Change

Kenneth Cole Embraces Change, Quietly - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Cole is obsessed with social network platforms (“The way people consume fashion is so profoundly different,” he said earlier). There is a physical presentation, which will be viewed by the fashion industry, and another for the virtual audience. Capsule collections are generally curated for each platform: Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and now Vine. One of the last looks was a black sheer sweater with a wide neckline that revealed the model’s shoulders and tank top strap evoking “Flashdance.” The back dipped down, showing the model’s back." (read more at link above)

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Fashion Models, Quirk Is In

Models who don’t fit the image of pristine perfection are suddenly in demand --

For Fashion Models, Quirk Is In - NYTimes.com: "The New Quirk might be an adjustment of sorts to an Instagram world, where amateur images of beauty fly fast, and editors and advertisers are looking for something to make the viewer linger longer than a nanosecond. “When you first meet a girl, something like a gap tooth catches your attention,” said Kwok Kan Chan, 45, director of the American operations at The Society Model Management, based in the Flatiron district and part of Elite World/Elite Group. “You might look at her and think ‘She’s not a conventional beauty.’ ”"

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Total Pleasure, Vintage Online Boutique

Total Pleasure, a new secondhand e-commerce destination that went live last month, caters to a very niche market with vintage finds like velvet bustiers and pants covered in flames or Mountain Dew logos.

Site to Be Seen | A New Vintage Online Boutique Caters to the Downtown Set - NYTimes.com: The e-shop could be seen as a response to the craftiness of Etsy or the fast-fashion aesthetic of Nasty Gal. Erickson, who works for the artists Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney, and Kim, a producer at Vice, curate their inventory based on what they would wear in Williamsburg or downtown Manhattan. After years of thrift shopping together, the duo started taking buying trips around Long Island and the Northeast, and eventually to Florida and California. They see Total Pleasure less like a shop than an opportunity to build a community around a store, not unlike Opening Ceremony...

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Big Data, Fashion Forecasting

Data crunching starts to make inroads into the traditional method of design forecasting: trend analysis with a big dollop of intuition. --

How to Tell the Fashion Future? - NYTimes.com: "Not surprisingly, some traditional forecasters are suspicious of a data-driven approach. “Right now data is the buzzword,” said Isham Sardouk, chief creative officer at Stylesight in New York and once a design director at Victoria’s Secret. “But for me, data is not everything. It’s just a portion of the information that’s out there. I think that intuition is underrated, and when people think of a trend forecaster they imagine a crazy guy in a room experiencing visions of salmon pink. But it’s a group decision. I have a team of 200 industry experts feeding information from all around the world.”" (read more at link above)

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Countdown to Fashion Week video

Countdown to Fashion Week: Final Fitting: "In the third installment of Countdown to Fashion Week, the designer Sally LaPointe makes final fittings and adjustments to her spring 2014 collection."

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Louis Vuitton Pop-up Store, America's Cup, San Francisco (video)

Louis Vuitton Pop-up Store: "AC UNCUT's Genny Tulloch takes a special tour of the Louis Vuitton pop-up store at AC Park in San Francisco."

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Veronica Beard, Sketching, Swatching video

Veronica Beard, Sketching and Swatching: "In the second installment of Countdown to Fashion Week, Veronica Miele Beard and Veronica Swanson Beard share their process for sketching and swatching a new collection."

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Kate Upton, Selling September (video)

Power of Suggestion: Can Kate Upton Sell September?: Video - Bloomberg: "As the magazine industry prepares for its biggest month of the year, the spotlight falls on Elle and Hearst Magazines, who are relying on all-American model Kate Upton to drive newsstand sales of the biggest issue of the print publication ever."

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Fashion, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark (video)

In this TED Education video, media maven Johanna Blakeley looks at the effects of intellectual protection on various industries and shows how less protection encourages creativity, innovation, and dollars.

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Viktor and Rolf, Conceptual Couture (video)

Viktor and Rolf, Conceptual Couture

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren celebrate 20 years of introducing their conceptual ideas to the fashion world.

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Men, summer style (video)

This summer, young men have created a language of style using familiar items.

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Prada 1H Sales Climb 12%, Asian Growth (video)

Prada 1H Sales Climb 12% Boosted by Asian Growth: Video - Bloomberg: "Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Prada reported a 12 percent increase in first-half sales, boosted by demand in Asia. Angie Lau reports on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Summer Leather Skirts, autumn trend (video)

Leather skirts can declare victory as the big surprise of summer (and a major fall trend).

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Bicycle Style, Pearl District (video)

Intersection: Bicycle Style in the Pearl: "In Portland, Oregon’s Pearl District, Dave Trausneck said he draws inspiration from the many states he has called home."

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Beach Style, Rockaways (video)

Beach Style in the Rockaways: Sully Romero, who grew up in the Rockaways, describes herself as a “'90s, Salvation Army, thrifter babe, tomboy, New Yorker.”

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Keeping Cool on Wall Street (video)

Intersection: Keeping Cool on Wall St.: "Jose De Haro skips the suit on most days, but pays special attention to fit and tailoring when dressing for his broadcast job on Wall Street."

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Heat Wave, White Crisp Looks (video)

Bill Cunningham | Crisper:  Looking great during the heat wave were white tops of all sorts, from classic shirts and shells to floaty trapeze shapes and roomy dolman sleeves.

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Fashion Week Inspiration (video)

Countdown to Fashion Week: Inspiration: "In the first installment of Countdown to Fashion Week, designer Jonathan Simkhai describes the inspiration for his upcoming collection."

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New Style, Old Beijing (video)

Intersection: New Style in Old Beijing: "In Beijing’s Gulou neighborhood, we met Li Xuan, who cites the local architecture as his main source of style inspiration."

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Union Square Greenmarket (video)

Bill Cunningham | Farming: "In the Union Square Greenmarket, where many just pull on shorts and a T-shirt, some still make an effort."

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Inked in Greenpoint (video)

Intersection: Inked in Greenpoint: "In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, we met Justin Fulton, who is not afraid to experiment with gender-bending silhouettes."

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Red, white and blue (video)

Bill Cunningham | Full Salute: "From parties to fireworks over the Hudson, New York is red, white and blue."

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