Monthly Archives: June 2009

June 30, 2009

When store closure can be a good thing…

Fashionista remembers as if it were yesterday (and it practically was…) that Liberty launched its first concept store in London’s Sloane Street, marking the brand’s first departure in London from its flagship Regent Street store. Now, less than a year after opening, the store is already marked for closure. Pessmistic fashionistas will see this as [...]
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June 25, 2009

Who’s got the look?

US retailer Abercrombie & Fitch are in the headlines this week, as they defend a high profile disability discrimination claim. Twenty two year old Ms Dean, who was born with her left forearm missing, was granted permission to wear a plain white cardigan to cover the join of her prosthetic arm by the employer, but [...]
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June 24, 2009

IP in the Fashion Industry

The programme for this year’s annual handbags-at-dawn conference, “Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry“, has now been published by event organisers CLT. Quite a few of Fashionista’s more savvy friends are in the cast, not to mention Fashionista herself. The event, held in association with this weblog, takes place on 22 September 2009 in London, [...]
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June 23, 2009

The Perry battle: Katy vs Katie

Would you believe it? There’s more than one Katie/y Perry. The US pop starlet (famed equally for her annoyingly catchy pop tunes and bizarre fashion sense) Katy Perry (real name Katheryn Hudson) isn’t happy. And here’s why. Australian fashion designer Katie Perry (real name Katie Perry – but sometimes Katie Howell) filed for an Australian [...]
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June 22, 2009

Cookie monster still threatening

Most fashion websites use cookies or similar devices. Usually this is for no more sinister a purpose than to enable users to navigate through the site and to track forwards and backwards at the customer check out. They are increasingly also being used to facilitate affiliate and behavioural marketing techniques to be deployed. Until now, [...]
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June 19, 2009

Amazon to launch footwear site

Today Retail Week reported that Amazon is to launch a standalone footwear site in the UK following the success of its Endless site in the US and Javari site in Japan. Although Amazon has been selling footwear on its main site since 2007, it is thought that the new site will have a broader product [...]
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June 17, 2009

Fashionista congratulates…

Christopher Bailey (Creative Director of Burberry)Jeff Banks (Designer amongst other roles),Professor Frances Marie Corner (Head of London College of Fashion)Natalie Massenet (Founder and Chair of Net-A-Porter.com)Safia Laila Minney (Founder and Director of People Tree) …who have all been honoured in the Queen’s 2009 Birthday Honours List for services to the Fashion Industry and, also for [...]
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June 13, 2009

LFN "Trading Online" event

Fashionista loves any event which enables her to combine her love of fashion with her love of wine and so tottered all the way to Kentish Town on Thursday evening to attend the London Fashion Network event “Trading Online: Getting Noticed” at the Prince of Wales pub. The panel of industry experts included Stephen Pratley [...]
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June 12, 2009

Facebook Username Change – from Saturday 13 June

Fashionista has been made aware of Facebook’s recent announcement that from today trade mark holders can record their trade marks with Facebook to prevent the registration of these trade marks as usernames. Their announcement was as follows : “On Tuesday, June 9, Facebook, Inc., a social networking website company based in the United States, publicly [...]
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June 11, 2009

Cat fight over catsuit

Thanks to Vicki Day for getting Fashionista hooked on the recent posts by Susie Bubble on her fabulous blog Style Bubble. For those who have missed the furore, Susie recently posted some photos of herself trying on a catsuit in Pam Hogg’s London boutique which did not go down at all well with the designer’s [...]
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