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Designer Spotlight: Liz Collins Knits Into The Millenium
In 2005, designer Liz Collins brought a group of students, friends and several knitting machines to Governor’s Island in New York, where she began work on knitting an abstraction of the American flag...
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Belmacz’s Midas Touch
Julia Muggenberg’s elegant collection of precious metal jewels and gemstones, Belmacz Beauty, is branching out this spring. Well, sort of. The London-based jeweler will channel her affinity for all...
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Volta Footwear Is An Instant Classic
New works of art that call themselves “classic” seem to have missed the point. And yet it’s hard to deny the growing influence of Italy’s Volta Footwear, which has precociously given itself the motto...
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Sang Bleu’s Maxime Buechi Talks Art
London’s Sang Bleu defies the doom and gloom forecast for print publications. The high concept rag is a collaborative effort between creator and consumers that shifts with each innovative issue. We...
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Is The Model Still A Muse?
In the last decade, the high-powered, recognizable celebrity has taken over the model’s role as artistic inspiration, a move that reflects the industry’s general desire for commercial viability before...
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Retail Watch: Dossier Sells Fitful Nostalgia
With its quiet, tree covered street, and sidewalks only sparsely scattered with pedestrians, it’s easy to forget you’re in New York when you take the G train to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Walking into the...
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Misela Reinvents The Handbag
Too few designers take handbags seriously. Like a good pair of shoes, a handbag can tie an entire outfit together—it is not merely a pouch of practical fabric to store your keys, wallet, phone and...
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The Rise Of The Power Professionista
The 1988 film Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith, is a true pop culture relic of the ’80s that was dated even as it reached its initial popularity. Though the movie has almost been lost with the...
View ArticleJCTV Presents Style Icons: Michael Jackson, The King Of Pop
Michael Jackson died yesterday in Los Angeles at 50, too young. His career has been marred by personal controversy, but as a singer he wrote the blueprint for contemporary R&B and pop music,...
View ArticleThe Deepening Divide Over Fashion’s Intellectual Property
In 2007, California-based label, Trovata, filed a lawsuit against chain retailer Forever 21 for allegedly copying its designs. The case involved seven designs sold in Forever 21 stores that were said...
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New York Fashion Week: Transitory Temperament
Last season’s fashion week was a scary time for designers and shoppers alike, and that fear was reflected in most of the New York collections. Now, with the spring/summer ’10 collections coming down...
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10 Best Collections from New York Fashion Week
Behind the glitz and glamour, the founding purpose of New York Fashion Week is to sell designs to buyers. But with designers parading the most practical, rational collections of recent memory down...
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