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Veruschka to Fashion Week!

fashionologie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:30:39 PDT

»Veruschka will attend a Assouline launch party for a book about her during New York Fashion Week [FWD]

»Lisa Levine is shuttering her jewelry line "for other pursuits" [The Pipeline]

»Cathy Horyn is back to blogging after a month-long break [On the Runway]

»The namesake of the Chloe Bay bag [FabSugar UK]

»Comptoir des Cotonniers is opening its first stateside store in the next two days [Racked]

»Kate Schelter: Now a Huffington Post contributor [The Transom]

»A flip through Nanette Lepore's Victorian West Village townhouse [CasaSugar]

Gap To Change Up Holiday 2009 Campaign, May Be Pursued By Uniqlo's Owner Fast Retailing

fashionologie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:42:00 PDT

>> Gap is still struggling to define itself - and for the first time in seven years, the company is looking at using a different creative agency - it has worked with Laird & Partners since 2002 - for its Holiday 2009 campaign, which could mean an entirely different approach to those simple backgrounded studio shots we've become accustomed to.

But that may not be the only big change on the horizon for the company: Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, which counts French brands Comptoir des Cotonniers and Princesse tam.tam as well as Theory among its portfolio, may be after the American retailer. CEO Tadashi Yanai recently said that he wants Fast Retailing to become the world's biggest clothing manufacturer and retailer within the next decade: "To achieve our target, the Asian market is the most important and we have already begun to expand there. In Europe and the US it is not realistic to establish hundreds or thousands of new stores solely via our own efforts, so we want to buy a big chain business."

The Indepedent reports that the "big chain business" Yanai refers to has been speculated to be Gap; in response, Yanai has said Gap is "within the scope" of the brands he might have in mind.

bits and baubles

philleif — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:05:00 PDT

»Real estate boom? Hamish Bowles has gone to contract on a two-bedroom co-op with a going price of $1.5 million, and Agyness Deyn is rumored to have bought a loft in Williamsburg [Chic Report, Perez Hilton]

»Alexander Wang had a photo shoot with Alice Dellal for his Uniqlo collaboration earlier this week [Style File]

»Comptoir des Cotonniers is coming to New York! [WWD]

»Natalie Portman tried on Givenchy Haute Couture on for size at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Event [FabSugar]

»Bing Bang is doing a lower-priced line, Bee 23, with Urban Outfitters for Fall [Fashionista]

»More dish on Agyness Deyn's acting gig, The Right Side of My Exultant Brain [The Cut]

»And just for fun: Amber Valletta, through the spectrum of hair colors [BellaSugar]