Monthly Archives: February 2010

February 25, 2010

Carnaby Street and fashion – 50 today!

“Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the ‘gear’ boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing…” (Time Magazine, April 15, 1966). This Fashionista loves nothing more than a wander down Carnaby Street, indeed it is adored by fashionistas everywhere! [...]
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February 24, 2010

Lady Gaga: prudent protection or brand overkill?

Writing on BrandChannel this week, Abe Sauer takes issue with one Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (better known as megastar and fashion icon Lady Gaga) for over-egging her brand protection through the extension of her US trade mark protection into markets with which she is not usually associated. He writes: “… last October, the artist’s management [...]
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February 22, 2010

Fendi defends its rights

A success story from across the pond: news has reached Fashionista that Fendi has won a long standing legal wrangle in New York against a discount retailer selling counterfeit Fendi branded goods for over 20 years. Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. has been ordered to pay $4.7 million in damages for knowingly infringing Fendi’s trade [...]
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February 15, 2010

Shopping on the move: a bus like no other

When Fashionista is not enjoying the luxury of travelling by car, she favours the humble bus to transport her around the Capital. Sure, its slower than London’s underground, but she can while away time sitting in traffic gazing into shop windows and wishing she could jump off and buy the coveted item that she can [...]
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February 12, 2010

Alexander McQueen

Fashionista mourns the sudden loss of a great talent and adds her condolences to the many tributes already published.
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February 9, 2010

Bamboozled . . . .

First it was allegedly mislabelled organic cotton and now Fashionista reads about the risk of mislabelling textiles that contain bamboo fibres. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that it has warned 78 retailers including such heavy-weights as Wal-Mart, Macy’s and Bloomingdales “that they may be breaking the law by selling clothing or other textile [...]
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February 3, 2010

Emma Watson: sharing her magic with People Tree

Emma Watson seems just too perfect. Not only has she grown up on our screens preserving a squeaky clean image, but she is now: one of Britain’s highest earning actresses; one of the faces of Burberry (and has helped her little brother to kick start his modelling career by drawing him in to her latest [...]
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February 3, 2010

Organic or not organic . . . . . ?

Fashionista was shocked when she first read in the distinguished German Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) that allegedly large volumes of organic cotton produced in India and used by high street chains such as H&M, C&A and Tchibo may have been contaminated with genetically modified cotton. Not surprisingly, the article led to a flurry of comments, [...]
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