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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Brings Fashion to New York's Lincoln Center

Her big idea? Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled."READ»

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Eco-Friendly Designs From New World Home

New World Home's eco-friendly designs combine time-honored style with modular, modern efficiency.READ»

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Denim is fresh for spring

The time is packed with collaborations between high-rage designers and denim manufacturers, novel looks, new fabrications and super-stretch technology for a better fit and no flabby. Of the last, Red Engine stingy jeans are made ...READ»

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Military Boots – Look Fabulous in Military Boots

Military boots have become very appealing to people in the past few years. The military boots are quite functional and in many magazines whole collections are based on them. The combat boots have been used by soldiers in the past ages, as far back as the Roman army. READ»

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Paypal accepted China online wholesale shop--cheerwholesale.com

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Sweet Stank of Innovation Wafts Across Parsons' Scent Symposium

Panelists from IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.), product designers, researchers, neurobiologists, architects, and design critics discuss scent as a design tool--and get the full olfactory array, from "partnership" to "sexy time," "birth" to "death," and more. READ»

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Phillips-Van Heusen Acquires Hilfiger for $3 Billion

Phillips-Van Heusen, an international fashion conglomerate that owns Kenneth Cole and Izod, announced Monday it would buy Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion. The New York Times and others have emphasized the...READ»

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The NFL Football Garments has sympathetic

Training hilarity, or should I rumor as we all submit to it as the NFL jersey, has been around for fifty (50) spree, there have been a crew of changes in the way the vocation is played, but has anyone sincerely paying deification as ...READ»

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Fashion Week Without McQueen & the Future of McQueen Brand

Fashion Week will be without one of its most exuberant, brightest stars, Alexander McQueen. McQueen took his life last Thursday and left his fashion empire without a leader. From the man that injected robotics and...READ»

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The Winter Olympics Uniforms: For God, Country, Fashion, and Sport

Appearances are everything when it comes to competing for your country. Joe Duffy gives the U.S. and Canadian Olympic uniforms a design review.READ»

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Epinions, Boing Boing Illustrates Rise in Transparent Brands

With access to more information than ever before, consumers can be savvier buyers. We have the power to make more informed decisions through online tools, such as Google. More importantly, we’re able to better trust...READ»

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2010 Trend Report

What does it mean to Wave? How is crowdfunding revolutionizing the non-profit sector? What does it mean to make tangible impact? Since our 2009 trend report, Google Wave has turned the tech world on its head, Kiva revolutionized the non-profit business model and Kleiner Perkins is funding eco-innovation with the $500 million Green Fund. While...READ»

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Mercedes Reveals Successor to the Legendary Gullwing

The new car looks to be a worthy heir to what's widely considered to be the most beautiful car that Mercedes ever built, the 1955 300SL.READ»

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Jewelry Designs Remain Bold and Bodacious in Spring 2009

 Many designer jewelry experts recommended stock-piling up on statement Juicy Jewelry in 2008, with anticipation that the trend would continue into 2009. While the focus last year was on choosing one signature piece and ...READ»

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Foremost World-Changing Agencies

Saatchi S. Cone. Global Change Network. Emotive Brand. Frog. GreenOrder. DiMassimo Goldstein. Little Big Brands. 8 Agencies Changing the Industry - And the World.READ»

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Live Life Deliberately: Design A Vision!

People who live their visions always seem to have time to do the things they want to do – we often call them “go getters!” They’re focused, make decisions easily and smile often. And they’re flexible – they don’t get “stuck” in their vision and miss better opportunities. As Joseph Campbell said, “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”READ»

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Can Contemporary Design Make Harris Tweed Cool Again?

Sherlock Holmes's creator wore it. So did your grandfather. Can contemporary fashion and design make Harris cool again?READ»

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Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the ...READ»

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Barbie Turns 50, Celebrates by Having Some Work Done, Dropping Price to '59 Levels

For 50 years, a certain American blonde with the figure of a Playboy bunny, the hair-do of a USC cheerleader, and the arches of a Conde Nast editor has been channeling the zeitgeist and fashioning her wardrobe accordingly. She ...READ»

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Social Entrepreneurship, the Creativity Economy, and Reciprocity: Investing in a Better World

  Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world. Echoing Green was ...READ»

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Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

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The Music Industry Goes Green

How musicians, venues, promoters, and labels are cleaning up their acts for the big summer season. READ»

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Power Couple

How many great husband-and-wife business teams can you think of? Us neither. But Kate and Andy Spade have figured out how to make their unusual partnership work. They've built a fashion empire -- but can they make it last?READ»

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The Gucci Killers

Shanghai Tang has learned from its past mistakes--and now it's gunning to become China's first great luxury brand. Forget about cheap socks and DVD players. This is the next battlefield for global competition.READ»

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One Smokin' Jacket

A hot new jacket built with sportcar-like engineering.READ»