Tag: fashion
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The Garment District Socialite
He runs a business selling designer clothing in the Garment District, but it doesn’t stop him from being friends with fabulous celebrities.
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‘You Can’t Go Wrong with Cashmere’
Are you shopping on Black Friday? That’s the question we asked shoppers at Columbus Circle, Ladies’ Mile and Herald Square. The answer? It seems the economy is still in a downward spiral.
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Wu Talks Gowns and Grants at Fashion U
This month, Teen Vogue gave 500 students the opportunity to ask Jason Wu, Betsey Johnson, Michael Kors and other top tier designers about the industry and their work.
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New York Learns How to Stay Relevant From Europe Fashion Centers
New York looks to other global fashion cities like Paris, Milan, and London and to the continuing influence of Asia to help sustain its dominant place in the fashion world.
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Mayor of the Garment District: Using FourSquare to Track Designers
Researchers at Columbia University spent two weeks in July tracking designers and others in the fashion industry how they moved about the Garment District. Their trick for keeping track of the designers? Having them check in on their smartphones with Four Square, a popular social media application.
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For Garment District Businesses, Trade Deal May Make South Korean Fabric Cheaper
Congress passed a new free trade agreement with South Korea that may make the its fabric cheaper for the Garment District’s wholesalers and retailers. But it’s difficult to gauge the agreement effect on American jobs.
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A & F Flagship Store’s European Clientele
European tourists form a long line outside the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store at Fifth Avenue every day, year around. What drives them is the world economy: they get more style for less money here.
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Designers Strive to Market Garment District Pride
Word on Fashion Avenue is that designers are packing up and leaving New York City’s famed Garment District. In response, several designers have taken a stand: The district is still a valuable part of the city and they aren’t going anywhere. They’re promoting their clothing as 100 percent locally-made in Midtown Manhattan.
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Nurturing Fashion: Ruby Kobo and the Incubator
Yuvi Alpert of jewelry line Ruby Kobo offers an inside look at the CFDA Fashion Incubator and the life of an up and coming design team.
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Report: Zoning and Lack of Marketing are Problems for Garment District
The Municipal Art Society of New York’s new report on the Garment District highlights the strengths and weaknesses of one of the nation’s premier fashion neighborhoods.
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The Last Puzzle Master
Carlos Diaz is not what you might expect of a well-connected man in fashion. He is part of a little corner of a quickly fading Manhattan clothing business.
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Fashion Magazines May Outlast Print Peers
The debate over the future of print media continues, even as “print is dead” becomes a modern-day cliché. But the future of fashion magazines may not be so bleak, according to industry professionals and the optimistic owners of a local magazine retail business.
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The End of the – Belt – Line
Like 80 percent of the businesses that have left the garment district since 1980, accessories manufacturer Terry Schwartz is in danger of disappearing as more and more garment related business is conducted abroad.
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More Designers Rely on Online Marketplaces to Bolster Sales
Over the past decade, fashion designers have had more abundant and affordable options to sell their lines online. Designers are getting larger audiences online, but will it be enough to launch young designers into fashion stardom?
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Stored Fur Coats See Another Season of Daylight
As Fahrenheit lowers in Manhattan, people are flocking to the fur vaults to have their coats taken out from cold storage.
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Design Competition Connects Fashion with Architecture in Pop-up Store
Architecture and fashion are typically considered two separate forms of design with little to do with each other, but Faris Al-Shathir is working to change that notion. Al-Shathir is director and co-founder of BOFFO, a non-profit organization that works to convert empty, unused spaces in New York City into art. This fall, the organization is…
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Bloggers Take Fashion’s Night Out
Bloggers have often been hailed as the new journalists, giving their readers up to date news when they need it most. Yet bloggers seem to have escaped the same criticism that journalists face when it comes to accepting free products.
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