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New York Fashion Week Fall 2015???

Artist rendering of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in 2010 Ever since Mercedes Benz Fashion Week set up shop at Lincoln Center, NY Fashion Week has become nothing short of a spectacle with the drama outside the tents often overshadowing the...

Denim is Not Dead

While I perused the booths at MAGIC, Project, Liberty and the countless other fashion tradeshows that were going on in Vegas last week, reports were circulating in the media that jeans are on the decline. As I read through them,...

You Can Get With This or You Can Get With That….The Great Debate: Yoga Pants or Jeans

After over a hundred years of being the number one go-to item for casualwear, our beloved jean is getting some serious competition. That is if you believe the number of articles being written about it. From Business of Fashion to...

The Most Visionary Man You've Never Heard of...Until Now

You've probably never heard of Jeff Shafer, but there's a good chance you've heard of his brands. BC Ethic, Agave Denim and most recently Bluer Denim, though vastly different, are all representative of his unique approach to doing business. An approach that's founded on the principles of the American dream, a personal philosophy of social change and producing quality products.

QOTD? When Does a Jean Stop Being a Jean

WWD May 14th Issue back cover* There is a topic that comes up every time I have a conversation about denim -jeans specifically. That topic is, when do jeans, stop being jeans. Let me explain. Traditionally denim is a 100%...

Kutay Saritosun of ISKO Talks Innovation in Denim and Branding

Kutay Saritosun (right) Denim has been the talk of the town this spring. Literally, not a day goes by where I don't see a magazine or blog covering the best denim for spring or the best places to shop for...

MBFW Australia May Be Revolutionizing Fashion

Imagine attending one of the many Fashion Weeks or viewing the livestream from the peacock-free zone of your home or office. Something on the runway catches your eye and you just have to have it. But alas, the runway show...

Fashion is Not a Punchline!

photo credit: Timur Edek Getty Images Dolce & Gabbana | Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2014 RTW While browsing the web a few days ago, I ran across an article from Yahoo Shine titled "Those Are Shoes? Fashion Weeks Strangest Footwear"....

Finding DenimHunt; A Look Back at a Year of Change

Photos of hunters who were featured in "The Jetsetting Jean" this year. The Jetsetting Jean is a DenimHunt experiment that takes one pair of jeans and gives it to several different women from all walks of life, to dress them...

#ResolutionsSuck Create a New Year's Hashtag Instead

So like most people this time of year, I've been thinking about the New Year and what my expectations are for myself. These don't normally translate into resolutions. I stopped doing those years ago. I mean, why declare something that...


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