Monday, September 20, 2010

What's New in the Fashion Biz

Photo courtesy of Fashionably Marketing Me

Apple Launches Fashion App for Fashion Weeks
To celebrate the various Fashion Weeks and promote fashion-related apps, Apple has just launched a dedicated section to fashion apps for the iPad and iPhone. The section, “Fashion: Apps for the Clothes -Minded” contains 30+ iPhone and iPad apps (found here)...Fashionably Marketing Me


Cheap Chic Fashion may have seen better days  
It was a sign of the times: fashion so cheap it became "disposable" as globalisation brought containerloads of low-cost clothes to the UK. But the days of the £4 jeans and £2 T-shirt could be numbered, with analysts and retailers now warning that the era of constantly reducing prices is coming to an end... - Guardian


Burberry launches Retail Theatre at London Fashion Week 
...Launching at London Fashion Week is Burberry’s Retail Theatre app. It allows in-store customers to watch the catwalk show on an iPad and then buy any of the looks — before the show even finishes... -Daily Mail


New Soho boutique offers skiers designer snowbound fashions
You may have noticed that Soho has been seriously lacking on the high-end designer ski-wear front. Yes, D&G's F/W 2010 collection was filled with alpine-inspired knitwear, but not one boutique offers glamorous yet high-performance sartorial choices for those actually looking to hit the slopes. That is, until now. Quintessential designer ski-wear brand Moncler opened a new Soho boutique on Fashion's Night Out, and affluent snowbirds can now breath a sigh of relief...Racked NY


Photo courtesy of NYT

About 1,000 people, some in homage plumes, nearly all in raven black, gathered here today in St. Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the life of Alexander McQueen, a man whose genius remained resiliently set against the minor and the conventional...New York Times

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