Monthly Archives: January 2010

January 26, 2010

Looking for an excuse to shop?

No-one can fail to have be moved by the tragic scenes reaching us daily from earthquake-torn Haiti, or by the stories of human misery which accompany them. It is therefore with a sense of pride that Fashionista notes that this year’s Fashion For Relief initiative will be dedicated to aiding the victims of this disaster. [...]
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January 20, 2010

Avoiding invasions of privacy

Fashionista knows that personal information is one of most valuable currencies of the twenty first century, including for websites in the fashion industry. Its value can, however, be diminished, and relationships with customers damaged, if privacy is not taken seriously. Here are some top tips which our friends at law firm Olswang have put together [...]
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January 18, 2010

Retail + TECHNOLOGY

Fashionista’s friends at law firm Olswang hosted Retail +TECHNOLOGY recently and brought together more than 75 leading lights from the retail and technology sectors, including keynote speaker Maurice Bennett CBE. If you’re interested to hear what people thought, see the Talking Heads Guide. Their next event promises to be just as interesting and focuses on [...]
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January 15, 2010

Winter Sales 2010 in Brussels

Ready, set, go: the Belgian sales have started! Fashionista is fascinated to learn that in Belgium sales are regulated closely. This means that traders (including those really cool Belgian boutiques) can only sell products in a ‘sale’ (‘solden’ in Dutch/’soldes’ in French) twice a year: winter sales in January and summer sales in July. Both [...]
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January 14, 2010

The Polarization of Lady Gaga

Back in her earlier days, Fashionista always craved a Polaroid camera. No matter that the images were pretty murky, smelt a bit and had a tendency to fade — you could wait a minute and pull out an “instant” piccie, to the instant admiration and envy of your friends. Having been overtaken by the vicissitudes [...]
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January 13, 2010

Does my Long Tail look big in this outfit?

Last month Fashionista was distracted from her meticulous preparations for her New Year Sales battle plan by a headline, “Barbie Dons Floral Design By Comme Des Garçons”. This headline belonged to a BrandChannel article by Sara Zucker (here). According to Ms Zucker, “After being declared an “It Girl” on the fashion circuit by the New [...]
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January 12, 2010

A fragment of fashion . . .

Fashionista has recently learnt that the designer of the famous Colour-In Dress, Dutch young fashion designer Berber Soepboer has collaborated with Fioen van Balgooi (the face behind Dutch Eco-Fashion consultancy Refinity to design Fragment Textiles.Fragment Textiles are just what they sound like – fragments of textiles in the form of squares and stars, which can [...]
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January 11, 2010

Crimes against fashion . . .

Forget those shell suits and muffin tops – there are a few more serious crimes against fashion to think about. The number of thefts from retail shops has risen by a massive third in one year (according to the results of a survey published by the British Retail Consortium last week). The survey also highlighted [...]
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January 8, 2010

A copy or a trend?

Fashionista has decided against a New Year’s resolution this year, as the usual promise to “buy fewer shoes” is already broken. Lindsay Lohan, on the other hand, has so far kept her resolution to “cause more mayhem”…. Shortly after Lohan, the creative designer of Ungaro, announced the expansion of her 6126 leggings collection into ready-to-wear, [...]
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January 7, 2010

Of garments and guilt

A curious little news item picked up last year by Fashionista was “Eco-factories undeterred by label setback”, a little piece by Leonie Barrie for Just-Style. Leonie reports that the Sri Lankan apparel industry has been thwarted in its plans to label garments stocked in major US and EU retailers with its ‘Garments without Guilt’ slogan. [...]
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