Patagonia Launches New Line...of Fish

Just when you thought Patagonia couldn’t become more eco-friendly, the label known for environmental activism launched a new line of salmon – as in jerky.The company decided to tackle unsustainable...

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Conservatives Protest Another JC Penney Ad (Styleite)Vogue Makes International Pact To Use Healthy Models (The Cut)Will Men Shop for Underwear Like Women Do? (The...

Color Trend Goes Wild in Peru

So you think there's a lot of color and animal prints in this season's trends?In Peru, they have been using color and animal prints as long as people have been wearing clothes.I recently was in Peru attending PeruModa and...

April Sales Decline

An early Easter holiday put a damper on April sales. U.S. chain-store sales increased a wan 0.6 percent, according to an index of American chain stores charted by the International Council of...

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I Like What You're Wearing. It's A Fashion Revolution (Forbes)In Cell Era, Timepieces Are Fashion Trend To Watch (NPR)A Seamless Transition From Fashion to Art (New York...

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Lady Gaga in Hong Kong (Tom Lorenzo)Let’s Talk about Ann Romney’s Fish shirt(New York Magazine)Choosing a Hat for the Kentucky Derby (Wall Street Journal)Why YKK? The...

Do Fries Go With That Stussy?

Ernesto Uchimura wearing Plan Check Kitchen + Bar's Stussy shirt.There’s Roberto Cavalli Vodka, Tommy Bahama restaurants, now pioneering streetwear brand Stussy debuted a collaboration with Plan Check Kitchen + Bar, a hipster burger joint in Los Angeles’...

L.A. Market Dates Shift in August

Managers and owners of Los Angeles’ central showroom buildings moved the dates for the August run of Los Angeles Fashion Market to avoid overlap with the Intermezzo show in New York. The August mark...

Atwood Goes All Medieval With HSN

Colleen Atwood was won well-deserved accolades for the costumes she created for “Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Not to mention some of the inspired costumes she has created for gems such as “Married to the Mob” (I’m not kidding. I freakin' love that movie.)Her latest work will hit...

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Gap Creates Gap Utopia at the Grove (The Cut)Fashion Week’s Plight in Australia (Wall Street Journal)Queen Mary to host exhibit of Princess Diana memorabilia...

Dyrdek Buys DNA From Burton

Skateboard star and TV host Rob Dyrdek bought DNA Distribution—owners of skate brands Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex—from Burton. Terms of the deal were ...

California Cities Among Top 10 for E-commerce Crime

Los Angeles and San Francisco are among the top 10 cities in the United States where online and e-commerce fraud starts, according to a survey by ThreatMetrix, a San Jose, Calif.–based company that ma...

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So You Think They're Knocking Off Your Line

That look is so...familiar.It’s every new designer’s nightmare.Hours after opening a store in a new town, buyers from competing lines purchase thousands of dollars’ worth of your brand’s clothes. You fear that your new customers, umm, your competitors,...

Levi’s Names Starbucks’ Alstead to Board

San Francisco–based Levi Strauss & Co. named Troy Alstead to its board of directors. ...