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Fashion Roundup: Miu Miu Signs Up Katie Holmes; Anna Wintour Strikes Back; Designers Imagine a Tux for Barack Obama

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:19:23 -0500

Katie Holmes has been asked to be the new face of Miu Miu, following predecessors like Kirsten Dunst and Vanessa Paradis. [Vogue UK]

With shoppers deserting Madison Avenue, the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District has set up a by-invitation-only shopping suite at the Hotel Plaza Athénée next weekend, where the selected retailers' most important clients can come shop in private. [WWD]

Perhaps in an effort to dispel rumors of Anna Wintour's departure, "industry sources"...

Fashion Roundup: It's a Girl for Nigel Barker; Doo Ri Launching New Line; H&M Expands to Israel

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:11 -0500

Noted fashion photographer and America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker is the proud father of a baby girl. [Us Weekly]

Doo Ri plans to launch a lower-priced, secondary line next year featuring leather jackets, leather leggings, silk-screened t-shirts, and jersey dresses. A name for the line has not yet been chosen. [WWD]

H&M plans to opens stores in Israel. [Reuters]

Holidays shoppers are filing into stores, but aren't buying anything, despite price cuts...

Fashion Roundup: Donna Karan Has Designs on New Moms; Luxury Goods Makers Slashing Prices; Pam Anderson to Vivienne Westwood?

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:32:25 -0500

Donna Karan will launch an 18-piece maternity line in the spring called The Happy Birth-Day Collection. [WWD]

Sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte collected a prize of 100,000 euros at the Swiss Textile Awards. [Vogue UK]

Luxury goods makers like Chanel, Versace, Christian Louboutin, and Chloe are cutting their prices in the U.S. by 8 to 10 percent. [WSJ]

The rumors about Pamela Anderson being featured in Vivienne Westwood's spring 2009...

Globally Warmed: The Couture of Climate Change

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:19:53 -0500

To the long list of oxymoronic garments produced by our novelty-desperate fashion complex—corduroy culottes! Uggs in Malibu!—now add sleeveless coats. “They look great!” enthused Kasia Steńczyk, 27, a special-events intern at the Brooklyn Academy of Music who owns a whopping ten of ’em. “I just make sure I have a long-sleeved shirt under, or very long gloves. You can have a lot of long cute and diverse gloves with that type of coat.”

The Love Beat

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Emily Fromm and David (Lefty) Leibowitz Met: April 2002 Engaged: April 14, 2005 Projected Wedding Date: Summer 2006 When Emily Fromm, 30, an editor for People magazine’s Web site, first met David (Lefty) Leibowitz, 34, a senior producer in interactive technology at Young & Rubicam, “the sparks and flames were out of control,” she said. In more ways than one, apparently. The meeting was arranged by mutual friends at a party deep in Brooklyn thrown...