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What Designers Are Wearing For the Holidays
In a fascinating “Wish List,” published by one of the country’s leading fashion publications, top designers talk about what they’ll be wearing for the holidays. Here’s what they had to say: SHOSHANNA GRUSS (Shoshanna): This young, al...
Fashion Vibrates With the Color Red
WATCH OUT PEOPLE, RED IS ON THE WAY! Suddenly, top fashion designers are embracing this spectacular color like they have not done in years! Red is IN. It sizzles. It dazzles. It overwhelms. And it is rapidly becoming one of the most imp...
A Talk with Fashion Designer Isaac Mizrahi
ISAAC MIZRAHI IS THE super-popular mass market couturier on a non-stop journey of “doing his own thing.” This remarkable designer, who has designed for everything from Broadway revivals to Palm Beach society ladies, is just now coming off a 5 y...
Hot Fashion Accessories for Quick Christmas Sales
1. NUMBER ONE HOLIDAY MUST-HAVE: Glittery earrings. Think CZs. Rhinestones. Shiny diamond-like chandeliers dripping with flash and beauty. Swavoroski has an elegant pair of pave angle wing earrings just right for the holidays. This is a...
Fashion Accessories Make Ideal Affordable Gifts This Christmas!
A WOMAN I KNOW has a lot of nieces and nephews and she has always given $50 to each of them for Christmas. This year, it’s not so easy. Money is tight, and she’d like to cut the presents back to $25 but, as she exclaimed, “What can you buy ...
Eight Marketing Techniques That Help Maximize Fashion Sales
Cooperative Selling: Find a retailer geographically close to you who would be interested in teaming up with you on product display and sale. Choose someone whose store carries related but not competitive products, such as small electronics or T-S...
A New Minimalism Helps Fashion Accessories
A NEW MINIMALISM IS INVADING the fashion runways, but this one is anything but negative to accessories! The new look is an architectural take on clothing design, with carefully crafted lines and an overall smaller silhouette. Some of the designs ...
Accessory Run: From Ghouls to Gentlemen–Underworld Attractions
IS ANYTHING HOTTER THAN GOTHIC right now? Anything sexier than vampires sucking blood from a sweet damsel’s neck. EEEEk! Where have we gotten to? No more James Bond. Now it’s deathly images, black lips, corpse-white skin and tattoos, tattoo...
Fashion Accessories Target International Airports
MORE WOMEN ARE TRAVELING and it’s affecting business in airports. Especially fashion business! More and more apparel and accessories shops are opening in airport malls, where the sales activity is brisk and the recession is almost absent. Not...
New Vibrancy Sizzles through Accessories World
A CORNUCOPIA OF EXCITING NEW LOOKS is emerging from the fashion centers of the world. Pay attention to them because they will seriously affect fashion accessories – both the products and the ways they are worn – as we move into Spring 2010....
Fashion Accessories: High End Sets the Standard
A major restructuring of one of the world’s most prestigious fashion accessory brands is underway and, with it, many exciting new ideas are being introduced or revitalized in the industry. The exclusive, very British Asprey brand is being refashi...
Celebrity Exposure Moves Fashion Accessories Big Time!
NOTHING QUITE EQUALS THE POWER OF TV shows and movies for moving accessories off retail shelves and into the homes of celebrity-awed consumers. With advertising money tight, the cost of interesting the entertainment media in using a particular prod...
Hot Accessories Give Fashion an Edge
Big, black, beautiful: New Sunglasses have a sexy Cannes mystique to them as they give men and women alike a rich, dolce vita appearance. This is sophistication at its best. No matter what you look like, put on a pair of the newest shades and y...
Fashion Accessories: A Special Role on Thanksgiving Day
ON NOVEMBER 26TH of this year, millions of Americans will gather around the family table to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, just as they have done every year since the Pilgrims joined with the Native Americans in a feast of the harvest. This is a time ...
Hot Promotions, Fashion Expositions Go Global!
WATCH OUT BAD GUYS! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! And this year, the American master-crimestopper of DC Comics fame is marking his 75th anniversary with a Christmas celebration by Bloomingdales in stores around the country....
Hats and Caps Are Manly Once Again
THERE WAS A TIME, some decades ago, when men would routinely wear hats once the winter cold settled in. Men would choose their style and fabric carefully, but the use of hats was mostly practical: to provide warmth and comfort. Workmen would wea...
Pantone Color Choices for Spring – Part Two
THE SECOND HALF Pantone Color Chart for Spring offers a number of rich, unusual neutrals, and also follows through with a number of strong vibrant colors. An interesting point with these tones is how well they work with the colors listed in Pantone...
Fashion Accessories Give Extra Life to Coterie Exposition
DID YOU KNOW? The legend of vampires began in ancient Persia where a vase was found depicting a man struggling to free himself from the clutches of a blood-sucking creature. It was a frightening piece of folklore that caught the imagination of th...
Eight Exciting Top Accessories for Fall
FEW THINGS CAN UPDATE A WARDROBE FASTER than a few very trendy accessory pieces. Choose a new piece of jewelry, or a fashionable scarf. Stay classic with black or go trendy with turquoise. However you decide, match your new pieces to the newest...
Crystals Flash, Soar in Popularity with Fashion Accessories
Flash. You know what that’s all about. The play you get when a real or faux diamond catches the light and sends it with electric brilliance zing-zing-zing-ing across a room. Flash. Like the sudden blaze of a night camera bringing darkness ...
Accessories Gain Show-Biz Attention
I. JEWELRY, HANDBAGS AT THE EMMYS AS USUAL, THE EMMYS PROVED to be a wonderland of display space for fashion accessories this year. Worn by a bevy of stunning actresses, the big items centered on rings, bracelets, earrings, and, here an...
New York Fashion Accessories Have Global Allure
SHOWS, SHOWS, SHOWS! This is the season for major designer exhibitions from New York to Europe to Asia. So far, what we’ve seen of the American fashion and accessories choices has been spectacular, albeit strange in some instances! New Yor...
Accessories Shine at New York Fashion Week
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK kicked off with all the sound and fury of a Dixieland band funeral. There was music playing, models sashaying, designs on display, and accessories front and center stage. Everywhere in the Big Apple, things were happening, f...
Boys and Girls and British Timepieces
TOMBOYS ARE BACK IN FASHION! The superstar men’s wear designer Richard Chai is introducing a new collection of casual wear for women. It is directed toward “the girl who fell in love with the guy I design for,” Chai says. The fashionable ...
Did You Know? Nerd Looks in Fashion Accessories
500 years before the era of England’s great universities, a fascinating place called Timbuktu thrived. Westerners flocked to this incredible African city, which many historians claim was the site of the first university of the world! But academia w...
“Heads” Up For Great Fashion Accessories!
A FRIEND RECENTLY TOLD ME about a charming store she came across in the wilds of Utah, dedicated solely to “heads.” The shop is on a fun, western-themed boutique street filled with museums and other fashion emporiums, but it is apparently the m...
Hot Fall Fashion Accessory Trends and Happenings
TREND CHECK: Resort 2010 is shaping up to be soft and feminine with plenty of gentle, neutral colors, see-through materials, vintage laces, girlie minis and shiny short-shorts. A fun bracelet for resort by Sequin features a circle cluster of tan ...
Fashion Accessories Make Visual Pledge of Allegiance
HOORAY FOR THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE! It may not be the Fourth of July, but designers across America are putting a nationalistic spin on accessories and resort outfits, 2010, and the results are marvelous! Shapes tend to be classic, invariably wit...
Hot New Techniques for Selling Accessories
RESEARCH FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY contends that one in 20 adults is a compulsive shopper, buying all kinds of things that aren’t needed. That’s a big change from our great-grandmother’s day, when shopping was almost totally restricted to nece...
Fashion Accessories Included in Wal-Mart’s Leadership Role in Green Movement
The nation’s largest discount retailer, Wal-Mart, is out to change the face of retailing, and it is not waiting until tomorrow to do it. In a totally revolutionary directive, Wal-Mart has moved into the “green earth” fray, fashioning itself a...
