SWIM/SURF
Quiksilver Women's x Club98 Capsule Celebrates Female Surf Community
By Dorothy Crouch | January 21, 2022
Celebrating the female surf community, the QQuiksilver Women's x Club98 Capsule was recently released as a collaboration between the Huntington Beach, Calif., brand and the global organization of ocean lovers.
Chicago--Meet Malibu
Bananabeat product at Sofia Bananabeat pop-up shop. Photo courtesy of Sofia Bananabeat.Some things just go together naturally. Like Chicago and Malibu! Umm, let’s try that again. Some things have not been tried before-- like mixing Chicago and Malibu.But waves and...
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Fetish fashion takes over the Berlin underground (Reuters)Rihanna Has More To Say About Her Butt Loss in the new Harper’s Bazaar (New York Magazine)Katie...
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Christian Louboutin Creates Cinderella’s Glass Slipper (The Telegraph)Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Hit Paris Fashion Week (E!)Wimbledon’s fashion police made...
The Assignment: 6 Words + 1 T-shirt
Lots of tees on the blog this week... New denim line Not Without Joy has launched a fun Hemingway-inspired contest on its website.According to the possibly apocryphal anecdote, Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a complete story in six words. He responded with...
Nike SB and Levi's Debut High-Performance Skate Jeans
Photo courtesy of thepremierstore.com.Skaters had even more reason to celebrate this Fourth of July, as the long-awaited Nike SBx Levi's 511 Skateboarding Team Edition Jeans...
Happy 4th of July, People
I was preparing several upcoming textile trend stories and came across a few prints that fairly scream: “Happy 4th of July, people!” Above is Pine Crest Fabrics’ “Super Star Patriotic” foil print (#BTH547C1). Here’s another from Pine Crest,...
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Haute couture on display in Paris (The Washington Post)Just One Look: Bouchra Jarrar (The New York Times)To Discuss: Cape Dresses on the couture runways (The...
Little-Known Facts About Protecting Fashion Collections
The Dolce Gabbana gown donated recently to Woodbury UniversityHaving a collection of vintage fashion pieces has its headaches. You can't just hang them in the closet.There is a very...
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Versace Back at the Ritz for Haute Couture Week (Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog)Raf Simons Shows Triumphantly at Dior (The New York Times)Sofia Coppola...
Tommy Bahama Takes The Grove
Party at Tommy Bahama Summer Pop-Up Lounge.Tommy Bahama is all about good times. On June 27, the island-inspired lifestyle collection let the good times roll under its Summer Pop-Up Lounge, an open tent, at The Grove retail center where it served mai-tais and martinis...
Cool (Hashtag) Tee, Dude
Exercise your freedom of tweet—you could land a grand. Ever dream of having your genius immortalized on a T-shirt? Karmaloop hears you. Or, more accurately, the Boston-based streetwear e-tailer is reading your tweets. The company just launched #tees, a contest to find the best tweet—and...
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Elle out at ’Fashion Star (New York Daily News)Banana Republic to release the Anna Karenina – inspired line in October (The Cut)According to British Vogue,...
Topshop: Taking It Slow
Topshop Creative Director Kate Phelan,left and Gordon Richardson, design director for Topman at Soho House June 26.New York, Chicago, even Las Vegas, got UK retailer Topshop locations before Los Angeles. It doesn’t mean that the much vaunted Topshop was not thinking about L.A. Topshop creative...
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Lady Gaga Bids a Record-Breaking $133,000 for an Alexander McQueen Gown at Daphne Guinness’s Auction (Fashionista)Jennifer Hudson: I Love Fashion Like I Love Music...
Surfing Your Style With Calavera
For many shoppers, the hassle of finding a suit that fits – let alone one made for shredding waves in rough waters – can be enough to put them off swimsuit shopping all together, but Calvera Swimwear has taken an innovative approach to...
