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Plus-Size Modeling: A Growing Trend

by Lauren Gambino Features
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Jennifer Latecki always dreamed of becoming a model. As a young girl, Latecki says she would flip through fashion magazines and imitate the models’ poses in front of the mirror. But Latecki was different from the waif women on the pages of her magazines. She had curves.
“I used to look at Victoria Secret models and [...]

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Top 5 Women’s Looks from the Pre-Fall Designer Collections

by Kerry LePain Etc.
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The overwhelming trend in our picks for women’s Pre-Fall 2010 collections is nostalgia for the past. Burberry Prorsum and Christian Dior found inspiration in military clothing and accessories. Lanvin redesigned the look of a French countrywoman, adding a posh, exotic flair, and Yves Saint Laurent channeled 1930s and 1940s glamour.
Burberry Prorsum
Burberry Prorsum’s Pre-Fall 2010 collection [...]

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Hub Clothing: Time To Play Dress-Up

by Kerry LePain Cloth
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Located on the second floor of Scottsdale Fashion Square, a megamall dominated by designer boutiques, popular retail chains and luxury department stores, Hub Clothing is a unique haven for shoppers searching for well made, fashion forward apparel.
Co-owned by Tom Simon, his wife, Amanda, and Jennifer Mumford, Hub Clothing was founded in 1991 and has since [...]

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Fashion Squared – In Anticipation of Barney’s New York

by Kerry LePain Cloth
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It’s a four-day party and you’re invited. For fashionistas, there is a popular fashion destination in the Valley – Scottsdale Fashion Square. And it’s about to get bigger and better… A whole lot better.
According to Kate Birchler, senior manager of marketing for Scottsdale Fashion Square, at 10:15 am on (10/15/09) Oct. 15, Fashion Square will premiere [...]

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Meet Phoenix Fashion Week’s Emerging Designers

by Lauren Gambino Cloth
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Phoenix is hot with fashion fever this week as it prepares for the 5th annual Phoenix Fashion Week from Oct. 1-3.

For the first time ever, Phoenix Fashion Week will host an “Inspire Fashion” emerging designer contest, which awards 10 local designers the opportunity to catapult their design careers into commercial businesses.
The designers were handpicked to compete in the [...]

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Fashion Forward in a Backward Economy

by Erica Rodriguez Cloth
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Clearance and discount signs have multiplied like lab rats in various stores, popping up everywhere, much to the shopper’s enjoyment and much to the fashion industry’s chagrin. The neon signs scream “75 percent off” and “Buy one, get one free” deals, so that shopper’s can carry out arms full of loot at amazing low prices. [...]

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The Sartorialist

by Jessica VanZalen Reviews
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For those who are tired of unrealistic fashion editorials and couture catwalks, The Sartorialist offers fashionable inspiration for the real world.
The Sartorialist is not a book for judging street fashion, but to draw inspiration from others, says Scott Schuman, the author and photographer, in the introduction of his book. Instead, he wants readers to get [...]

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