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The P’9522 is the latest mobile device to emerge from the studios of the Porsche Design Group. Since the early 1970s, this offshoot of the legendary car maker has turned its hand to all manner of consumer goods and electronics, helping serve up a sleek, post-Bauhaus aesthetic that also extends into sportswear [...]

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Teens and tweens across middle America must be feeling the credit crunch as Gap, Ambercrombie & Fitch and TJ Maxx all post pitiful sales. [WSJ]
Is Britney Spears really going to show up at Diesel’s Dirty Thirty bash in Brooklyn this Saturday? [Fashionista]
Project Runway season finale PART 1! re-cap. [Jezebel]
Michael Jackson unmasks “his” children. [The Sun]
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The iPhone is undoubtedly the phone of the fashion crowd especially with the style.com application.
But that hasn’t stopped every phone maker out there from trying to catch up with the iPhone and Blackberry is no different.
Not happy about Apple’s encroachment onto Blackberry territory, they have introduced the Blackberry Storm to crackberry users who want a [...]

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BRAG Celebrates 38th Annual Scholarship & Awards Gala
World Renowned Fashion Photographer Gilles Bensimon
and William Hawthorne III of Macy’s Inc. to Receive Special Honors
BRAG, The Black Retail Action Group Inc., a not-for-profit which promotes the acceptance and participation of men and women of color at all levels of the fashion industry will host its 38th Annual [...]

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From Old Gray Lady today:Guy Trebay on Milan collections: “Fashion, in one’s experience of it lately, generates many things, but dreams … not so much. Certainly it is a reliable source of amusement, particularly when you consider the gap between what is going on in designers’ minds and how that translates to what men wear. [...]

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Collette the uber-trendy Parisian boutique is making some big moves.
The unique shop, which has become a cult institution, is closing July 7th through August 25th for a major renovation. They’ll be working with Japanese architect Masamichi Katayama on an overhaul of the store. A Colette Superette will be stationed so major shopping can [...]

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Gap has introduced a new collaboration with some of today’s most influential artists in celebration of the Whitney Biennial.
The collabo consists of limited edition tees designed by contemporary artists including Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Marilyn Minter, Barbara Kruger, Hanna Liden, Sarah Sze, Kenny Scharf, Kiki Smith, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Cai Quo-Qiang, Rirkrit Tiravanija [...]

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Creative Recreation is a footwear label designed by a trio out of the O.C. in California.
They aim to fill the gap between leather dress shoes and athletic sneakers. Their entrepreneurial spirit has lead to great innovative styles for their peers to wear how they choose. This has caused confusion in the categorization of [...]

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Gap has decided to forego it’s spring TV ad campaign after a “disappointing” fourth quarter.
Troubles continue to mount for the San Francisco based retailer despite efforts to revive the brand.
Brandweek reports, “The primary focus of spring marketing for the namesake division will be print and in-store efforts for the retailer’s footwear collaboration with designer Pierre [...]

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With the women’s collections underway in Paris, the fashion faithful have flocked to the city. Any visit to Paris must include a visit to the internationally chic boutique Colette (sidebar-we’re talking to you Lissette! You know who you are!).
This week The Moment caught up with Kanye West as he hit the store up [...]

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From Off The Runway with Robin Givhan:
“The collection is filled with all the basic sportswear pieces you’d expect: jeans, cargo pants, t-shirts, camisoles, pullovers, etc. But it looks just a little cooler, more streamlined, a smidge more sophisticated. There are also shoes by Pierre Hardy for the Gap….Of course, everything looked especially good because it [...]

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Claiborne will retain it’s Enyce label. [DNR]
Gap Inc. appoints Simon Kneen creative director at Banana Republic, in an effort to improve the bottom line. [Forbes]
Great tips for maintaining your clothing if you have a reach-in closet. Because we all don’t have those walk-in closets the size of studios as seen on Cribs. [...]

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The Gap hasn’t exactly had an easy past few years. They were basically sinking in quicksand in a market of fresh fast fashion retailers like Zara and H&M which continues to this day.
However they have brought in new management and creative direction in an attempt to restructure the brand.
The reworkings appear to be starting [...]

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The Gap Inc. continues to sink as it hits it’s lowest share price in 4 years.
The company which owns The Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic has been experiencing woes to say the least. They are currently in the mist of trying to turn things around through the arrival of a new CEO, the [...]

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Gap, Inc. has hired some new faces for the “Classics Redefined” campaign.
Doesn’t it seem that the Gap has always “redefined” classics?
Moving on…the campaign will include John Mayer, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Lucy Liu and Selma Blair.
The campaign willed be photographed by the legendary Annie Leibovitz, who recently shot for Louis Vuitton.
Gap [...]

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The San Francisco-based retailer, Gap Inc., has named Glenn Murphy as the companies new CEO.
DNR reports that the former Canadian drugstore-chain executive is expected to start this week and earn a base salary of $1.5 million. Though Murphy has no fashion experience, he has a history of, “impressive results in reinvigorating retailers and brands.”
The [...]

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