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- Find Spring Break fashion essentials at Chicago's NEWCITY - WLS-TV
- North Carolina designer’s fashion line sends a message about domestic violence - WTKR News 3
- Christian Siriano Just Responded to Selma Blair's Accessible Fashion Line Idea - HarpersBAZAAR.com
- Fashion people eat? The rise of edible merchandise - The Guardian
| Find Spring Break fashion essentials at Chicago's NEWCITY - WLS-TV Posted: 09 Mar 2019 07:12 AM PST  CHICAGO (WLS) -- Spring Break is all about having fun while looking good! NEWCITY in Lincoln Park is a hot spot for all of the latest Spring Break trends. From dresses to swimming suits and mens apparel, Lifestyle & Fashion Expert Suzanne Kopulos shares the hottest trends for spring breakers this year. For more information, visit NEWCITY's website. Location: NEWCITY, 1457 N. Halsted Street, Chicago Hours: Monday-Saturday: 10am-8pm Sunday: 11am-6pm Copyright © 2019 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.  |
| North Carolina designer’s fashion line sends a message about domestic violence - WTKR News 3 Posted: 09 Mar 2019 10:41 AM PST  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A North Carolina woman is working with her daughters to start difficult conversations about domestic violence through fashion. Angel Fant created the "Surviving Angel" collection, featuring pieces like a long, white dress with a woman's outline on the front. "This one was inspired by my prom dress," Fant said. Her collection traveled with her to Paris for Fashion Week just days ago. "It was great, I would do it again, and again, and again a whole bunch of times," she said with a laugh. Fant and her daughters run the fashion line No Punching Bag from their Winston-Salem home. She said the business is the product of a conversation she had with her daughters years ago. "We wanted to make a difference with domestic violence awareness and we felt it was a conversation that was really uncomfortable for people to talk about. So we were like, 'Let's do something indirect, something we like to do,' and what we're good at is art," she said. She said when they received an invitation to show a collection with Flying Solo, a group of New York-based designers, they jumped at the chance. "[We] raised the money that we needed, which was $5,000, in four days," she said. The line features purple fabrics, the color used for domestic violence awareness, as well as strong women figures from history. Fant, a survivor of domestic violence, said she didn't start telling her story until creating the line. "I think it's important that my story counts and everybody's story counts no matter what it is," she said. "I lived through this, I'm living through this. It's not the easiest situation to be a survivor of domestic violence." Fant also speaks to school groups about dating violence and partners with other local organizations to help survivors of abuse.  |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2019 10:26 AM PST  George PimentelGetty Images
Selma Blair's honesty regarding her multiple sclerosis diagnosis has been nothing but enlightening. In her candid interview with Vanity Fair, Blair lamented the lack of accessible, comfortable and fashionable clothing for individuals with chronic illnesses and disabilities. The actress name-dropped her friend, designer Christian Siriano, as her dream collaborator on an accessible fashion. And now, Siriano has responded in a new interview with People. In many ways, Siriano sounds like the perfect fit for Blair's project, as his line has always been dedicated to making inclusive fashion for everyone. And according to Siriano, the collaboration isn't completely out of the question, as he tells People, "Selma and I talked about it at dinner. What's happening with her is so unreal, so I was like, 'Well maybe this is something that is needed in a way,' so we'll see. I don't know yet but maybe."  As Blair told Vanity Fair, "I would like to partner with someone like Christian Siriano on a line for everyone—not just people who necessarily need adaptive clothing, but for those who want comfort, too. It can still be chic. You shouldn't have to sacrifice style. Like, let's get elastic waistbands to look a little bit better." The Hellboy actress added, "I really feel like people with disabilities are invisible to a lot of people. Because they're uncomfortable, or don't have the energy to dress up, don't want to be seen." If Siriano and Blair do decide to work together, people living with chronic illnesses and disabilities could finally have access to fashion that works for them.  |
| Fashion people eat? The rise of edible merchandise - The Guardian Posted: 08 Mar 2019 05:07 AM PST The myth that the fashion crowd don't eat has long been dispelled. But they do, increasingly, eat fashionably. Next month, Prada will bring its historic Marchesi 1824 bakery to London, complete with a pastry counter and cafe. The Mount Street eatery in Mayfair plans to serve sweet treats, including Milanese panettone and gianduja chocolates, alongside traditional Italian espresso, and is likely to become a point of pilgrimage for fans of the label. But Prada is far from the only fashion house to branch out into baking in recent years. When Fiorucci opened a flagship store in London's Soho in 2017, it encouraged customers to "take a bite out of Fiorucci" at the in-store cafe run in collaboration with the city's "most Instagrammable cafe", Palm Vaults. The same year, Ralph Lauren opened Ralph's Coffee & Bar in a corner of its flagship store on Regent Street, following similar installations in New York, Chicago and Paris, and offering everything from "Ralph's brownie" to "Ralph's roast". Round the corner, Burberry had opened Thomas's Cafe a year earlier. Claire Ptak, owner of Violet Cakes in east London, says her bakery-cafe has always been popular with those in the fashion industry. "Part of it is the location, but I feel that if you care about visuals and quality and the finer things, then it all goes together," she says. "If you're a fashion designer, you also tend to seek out the best things to eat or the coolest places to get a cake." It makes sense, then, that fashion labels might be seeking a literal slice of the pie.  Of course, an entire diner is not a necessity for fashion-food collaboration. Last summer, Fendi opened its own Kiosk as part of Selfridges Corner Shop, featuring edible merchandise in the form of monogrammed lollies from a Steccolecco Gelato stand. During London fashion week, J Sheekey Atlantic Bar launched a bespoke Fruits de Mer stand designed by Erdem, featuring the label's signature miniature koi figures.  From a marketing perspective, fashion's foodie love-in is a progression of "socks appeal": the idea that investing in small, relatively inexpensive branded items, such as socks, is a way for customers to align themselves with high-end labels, without making a more significant investment. But whereas Fendi socks still cost £90-100, the lolly was a fraction of the price, at just £4. As ever, Instagram has played a major role in the industry's latent obsession with food. So called "foodstagram" used to be a foodie haven, but such posts have become a signifier of style, propagated by fashion influencers and accounts. Branded foodstuffs may seem like a temporary purchase, but such items are far more affordable than anything else in most fashion outlets – and a photograph of logo'd sugarcubes (as seen at the Gucci Osteria restaurant in Florence) will live for ever on social media. It's a cheap, if not particularly discreet, way of showing that you were in store; the instant gratification of sweet treats made digital. On the high street, the allure of eating where one shops is part of the wider trend for labels selling a lifestyle concept, rather than purely clothes. At Swedish brand Arket, for example, shoppers can sample a cafe menu by Martin Berg, "one of the early proponents of the New Nordic food movement": think fresh salads and pastries with simple coffees served on minimalist, wooden tables. For those to whom a Scandi outlook and aesthetic appeals, the Arket cafe represents far more than the opportunity to scoff a cinnamon bun.  "Retail spaces are shifting," says Ptak. "People want experiences, and there is an experience to be had in going to a beautiful cafe next door to a retail outlet. Most of the time people shop online, so you have to have a different reason to draw people into a physical space. It's about creating a destination."  |
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