Let’s be clear: Michael Kors is on a pretty good run, but it’s not that he hasn’t had a few disappointments.
He, for instance, is not a teacher in Ontario. 

So far, they are the real winners in Kors’ December IPO. The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board was the only [...]

The fashion elite are gathering to search for glamour in a series of tents. Big money investors are circling the heavily indebted Barneys New York. Ralph Lauren is printing money, almost completely unhindered by the shuttering of American Living. J.C. Penney is reinventing, again.
And the Juicy girls are back — and still wacky.
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Fans of PBS’ much-talked-about series “Downton Abbey” on “Masterpiece” often want to read more about the Edwardian era and World War I.
A good place to start is with Edith Wharton’s novel “The Buccaneers,” published after her death in 1938, which is about American heiresses crossing the Atlantic [...]

Most nights atop The Standard hotel, the golden-hued Boom Boom Room — as many of its habitues still refer to it, despite an official name change a while back — is the exclusive wing, while the nearly pitch-black, grittier Le Bain across the hallway is the more democratic wing.
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Gabriel García Márquez once said, “Everyone has three lives, a public life, a private life and a secret life.” That may be true, but these days, there seems to be a shortage of public intellectuals.
The U.S. has never had as robust a tradition of cultivating them [...]

Polyvore, the online fashion community, has partnered with CoverGirl to launch ‘Polyvore Live,’ a fashion show during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week that will showcase the collections of four alumni from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

The show will take place on Monday, Feb. 13 at La.Venue and will be live-streamed online at Polyvore.com. Prominent fashion bloggers [...]

ShopStyle is jumping into the designer collaboration ring.
Last week the fashion search engine launched its first exclusive
collection with jewelry designer and CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist
Pamela Love at an event at the Tribeca Grand in New York.
Available only at PopSugar Shop, the limited edition, three [...]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow opined in “A Psalm of Life” in 1838
that “Lives of great men all remind us/We can make our lives
sublime/And,
departing, leave behind us/Footprints on the sands of time.” While both
writers
and readers today take a much more skeptical, critical approach to the
lives of
the great than they did 173 years ago, biographies — the more
unvarnished [...]

David Dyer, president and chief executive officer of Chico’s FAS Inc. did a rather shocking thing yesterday: He told an unadorned and uncomfortable truth.

He should get high marks for that, but we also need to acknowledge that
when it comes to frankness from the corner office, we grade [...]

Global online retailer Shopbop.com has welcomed the holiday season with a dedicated boutique showcasing a cherry-picked selection of gifts curated by their editorial team.

Spanning everything from designer clothing and accessories to decorative items and books, the microsite resembles a brick-and-mortar store with shoppable, virtual “window displays” separated [...]