Jean Paul Gaultier for Target

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Fashion Week is upon us and yet we are still struggling to make ends meet, even those of us with jobs. For the first time in our lives, for those in Generations X and Y, we truly understand what it means to appreciate having any job. This personal and global credit crunch is just one [...]

What We Learned At Fashion’s Night Out

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Does skinny equal pretty? Will carrying a Louis mask one’s fatness? These are the questions that streamed through my mind while shop hopping on the windy Thursday evening that was the world’s inaugural Fashion’s Night Out. The evening was a mass effort to get Americans out to celebrate fashion week and swipe the plastic. We [...]

Sultry and Stylish

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Spotted: Herald Square, NYC
Name: Maki
Age: 32
Hometown: Yokosuka
Current ‘hood: East Village, NYC
First language: Japanese
Other languages: English
Job: Between jobs, worked as a sales assistant in fashion and textiles

Ethnicity: Japanese
Religion: Buddhist, non-practicing
Favorite Condiment: Soy sauce
Favorite Nut: Walnut
On your iPod now: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin
What’s In Your Makeup Case: Eyebrow pencil, [...]

Global Threads: Fashion Week Worldwide

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Gen Art will commence New York fashion week event on September 4 in Midtown, with an after party at Opera. The show will spotlight emerging designers, with six women’s wear designers, two makers of men’s collections and three accessories designers. The next day, Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek New York stars with a host of collections that will [...]

An Art Fair Mixes Old & New

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Art collectors and critics will descend on Russia’s capital city in a few weeks to attend the fifth annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair (MWFAF), a center for work from the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The show runs from May 27 to June 2 and offers a broad variety of art [...]