I just got THIS in my inbox a couple days ago:
On behalf of IMG Fashion, press & industry registration is now open for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. See below for more details on this fall’s most exciting fashion event.
*Sigh*
There is a God and he sent me Emma the best intern anyone could ask for. She’s brilliant, works hard and has great music taste, oh and deals with my insanity in the most gracious way ever. Amazing!
A friend of mine told me he was watched ”Iron Man” this weekend and loved it. THEN I came across this piece in The Independent about the recent fashion trend of men wearing tights sparked by superhero movies. OK, my friend is probably one of the best dressed guys I know and is definitely NOT the type to start sporting spandex anything EVER much less a pair of tights for men, BUT it did get me wondering especially since Calvin Klein sent men in tights down the runway three seasons ago. Has something that had dudes in a tizzy a year ago resurfaced??
Guys: would you wear tights even if all of your friends started wearing them and said it was cool? Ok, let’s take wearing them out in public out of the equation- would you even wear them to the gym?
Ladies: would you ever hang out with a guy in tights? On a personal note, I’ve hung out with some eccentric dudes in my life, but I don’t think I could go there…
Last Thursday I was on Fox Business talking about what a mistake Cartier was making by having a MySpace page. Yeah, they may have 3,000 + friends but the branding is all wrong (they should have just stuck to ads on A Small World), they are essentially dilluting the brand (MySpace = mass, Cartier = heritage and prestige) and a MySpace strategy now is about three years too late. Well, my position wasn’t really liked by a lot of people. In fact, I got some pretty rude e-mails. BUT to my point, I came across this piece in Women’s Wear Daily about how LVMH finally reached an intellectual property settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment in the amount of 154,000 Euros. For those of you not in the loop, LVMH felt that artists like Britney Spears, Ruben Studdard and Da Brat were using unauthorized images of the Toile Monogram and Multicolore in their CDs and videos, so they took action and filed a law suit. Freakin’ genius. Way to regulate on the brand control. If I were LVMH I wouldn’t want just any lo-fi celebrity endorsing Vuitton as well! Cartier, take note.
I found the definition for this term on a site called www.wisegeek.com. It says a recessionista is “someone who seeks out fashionable items which are also low-cost.” OK, so I can name a couple of my favorite recessionistas, but the queen bee is Kathryn Finney of The Budget Fashionista. Not only is she a fierce dresser and has impeccable style, she can find a discount on anything in all corners of the world. For real. Check out her site if you don’t believe me.