December 2011
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Hard Times for Wholesale T-shirt Hub
December 23, 2011
The upper floors of Building 1165, on 27th and Broadway, have been a hidden hub for wholesale T-shirts for nearly 30 years. Many tenants say high rent, volatile cotton prices and a down economy have threatened business [VIDEO]. / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
Naveed Ahmed adjusted his thick bifocals as he leaned into his lap with an X-acto knife. He was separating the perforated...
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VIDEO: HARD TIMES FOR WHOLESALE T-SHIRT HUB
December 23, 2011
Volatile cotton prices, rising rent and a down economy have resulted in an approximate 50 percent drop in business for plain T-shirt wholesalers in Lower Midtown.
Naveed Ahmed, owner of Cotton Mine, is one of about 25 business owners in a five-story wholesale T-shirt epicenter on 27th and Broadway who...
November 2011
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Spandex House Attributes 20 Years in Business to...
November 29, 2011
Hindu god Hanuman / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
The notion of a fashion icon typically stirs thoughts of Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, or Lady Gaga.
For Spandex House, the stretch-fabric retailer located on 38th Street in the Garment District, their fashion icon is a bit older—by about 5,000 years.
Upstairs, beyond the scattered rainbow assortment of two-way and four-way...
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Financial Industry Worker Digs to the Back of his...
November 25, 2011
Richard Ambrosio, JP Morgan trader, rotates through the collection of shoes he bought when he earned four times more / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
Forty-nine-year-old foreign exchange trader, Richard Ambrosio, has put shopping on the backburner. His scuffed brown shoes, $30 Macy’s sale shirt, and balling up wool jacket tells the story of how his shopping habits have changed since...
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DISCUSSION: BLENDING...
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Couture Breathes New Life into Classical Music
November 22, 2011
Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) members backstage before their performance (Left to right: Mariel Roberts, cellist, and Samir Zarif, guest saxophonist) / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
The entryway to a five-by-nine dressing room glows backstage at the Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge. Damp socks are scrunched into rain boots, and unlaced...
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Chanel's New Microsite Has a Coloring Book
November 21, 2011
Chanel Camelia Flower Coloring Project / by Teresa Mahoney
Is Chanel reaching out to younger consumers with a coloring book? Not quite. But their new microsite does have a section called Kid’s Space which offers a coloring book with seven images—from clutch purse to stiletto—to digitally color by selecting from a palette of 36 shades.
The site was created to...
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OCCUPY FASHION
November 18, 2011
The Department of Sanitation cleaned out Zuccotti Park November 15th because it was deemed “unsanitary”. For one Occupy Wall Street protester, Sparrow Kennedy, that resulted in a big fashion faux-pas. Click to hear her account that involves a missing vintage Dior bag, lamb-skin gloves, and more of her favorite clothing....
October 2011
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Under the Tents: Runway Meets Occupy Wall Street
October 17, 2011
Sergio Davila model at Fashion Week / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
Occupy Wall Street protester / Photo by Teresa Mahoney
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Back to Blahnik
October 16, 2011
“BB” Pointy Toe Pump / Nordstrom.com
In recent years Manolo Blahnik has been cast in the shadows of red-sole rival Christian Louboutin and other flashy footwear brands like Nicholas Kirkwood and Brian Atwood.
However, as Blahnik and other clean-lined footwear made a comeback on the runways this year, Blahnik emphasized that classic never goes out of style (he even...
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Style.com Set to Launch a Magazine
October 14, 2011
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Style.com announced it will launch a new magazine on Halloween—ironic during an era when most people consider print a ghoul of media past. The first issue will focus exclusively on their front-row, model-eye journey through Fashion Week; a period where the website saw a 13% spike in page views this year according the Wall Street Journal.
Style.com was...
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WatchOctober 9, 2011
Stevie Boi Spring Collection / Photos by Teresa Mahoney
Slideshow of Stevie Boi’s “Coexist” collection. Signature embellishments include spikes, chain-links, and chrome-framing.
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Sunglasses "Coexist" with The Bryant Park Hotel
October 9, 2011
Photo by Teresa Mahoney
In the candlelit basement of midtown’s Bryant Park Hotel, drag queens, pageant queens, LGBT media people, and Broadway performers huddled tightly in the underground cobblestone venue to see Stevie Boi’s spring 2012 line of sunglasses; appropriately titled “Coexist”.
An electric violinist set the mood to reflect Stevie Boi’s similarly...
September 2011
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Google 'Geeks Out' on Fashion and Fails
September 26, 2011
Boutiques.com
Google announced in a blog this Thursday that it plans to ditch its online shopping site, Boutiques.com, just one month shy of its first birthday. Users will be notified by email how to save their data before the site closes October 14th. The search-engine giant is not abandoning the marriage between high-tech and high-fashion, however: they will apply...
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