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Marketing Makeover: How Birchbox Sells Benefit, Kiehl's, Marc Jacobs, and More

Birchbox aims to help the $52 billion beauty business learn which free trials become full-size sales.READ»

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Fashion Frenzy: Gilt Competitor HauteLook Receives $31 Million in Funding

Fashionistas beware, the online fashion market is about to get busier. HauteLook, a members-only online sample sale site, closed a $31 million round of funding headed by Insight Venture Partners (they raised $10 million in funding ...READ»

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Lady Gaga Collaborates With Marc Jacobs, Jane Birkin, and a Sharpie on Signature It Bag

Last night it was reported that Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo with a "defaced" Hermes Birkin bag tattooed with Japanese text. The more appropriate word is customized. Others might even say enhanced. I say Gaga took a hallowed and ...READ»

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Legends of the Fall: Patti Smith, Marc Jacobs, and David Rockwell Headline Pratt Gala

"Godmother of Punk" Patti Smith didn't go to Pratt. She didn't have the money and, she says, she was "too erratic a student" to get past the admissions office. That didn't stop her, however, from enthusiastically accepting an award ...READ»

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Gilt Groupe Without Guilt: Fans Flaunt Their Finds

Passionate fashionistas have made Gilt Groupe the darling of luxury-obsessed bargain hunters.READ»

Posh British Brands Face Bankruptcy

Waterford Wedgwood, icons of British tableware, are on the block. Are they victims of a nasty economy or changing tastes?READ»