From Couture -- to Conversation
The biggest buzz during the last round of fashion shows wasn't about the trends, the sets or even the celebrities. It was about the ways that social media - blogging, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the like - have become an integral part of how fashion brands get their messages to the public. nytimes.com |
Threadbare Is a Good Thing
Margiela and Rodarte barely strung it together, while Yohji Yamamotos graphic moth-eaten outfit made a virtue of holes. nymag.com |
American Women on the March
"American Women: Fashioning a National Identity" at New York's Metropolitan Museum is the story of how, from suffrage onward, dynamic identities and fashions change apace. nytimes.com |
One-click wonder
The box is what gets them. The sturdy black box, wrapped in grosgrain ribbon, which lands on 1000 Net-a-porter customers' doormats daily, contains a runway-fresh fashion piece, and crunches expensively with fine pink tissue paper.... nzherald.co.nz |
Macy’s Goes Local in Matching Goods to Customers
After decades of acquiring and centralizing, Macy’s has increased sales by rediscovering its multiple local roots. nytimes.com |