The Voluptuous Finally Replace the Skin and Bones

  Victoria’s Secret Angel models Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio    Victoria’s Secret Angel models Doutzen Kroes, Isabeli Fontana  Models of the Prada Spring Summer 2010 Ready To Wear show   We’ve sat the fashion world through an intervention for its sickly-thin models, and finally one fashion house took its first step toward recovery!   Prada …

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Ultimo Closing After 40 Years

  A sad day to Chicago fashionistas everywhere. Ultimo, one of Chicago's premiere fashion boutique, an influential mecca of high-end fashion for more than four decades, is closing its doors to the public at the end of January. The Oak Street boutique founded by the late Joan Weinstein was introduced to Chicago to European designers such as …

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Nina Garcia. In Case You're Still Interested…

Nina News in bullet form… because the drama is getting old. – Reports circulated late last week that Garcia may be headed to Marie Claire once her contributing editorship gig expires at Elle. – Marie Claire has been campaigning actively to be the magazine for season six of Project Runway, when the show switches to …

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Rachel Bilson Collaborating with DKNY Jeans

Actress Rachel Bilson is collaborating with DKNY Jeans to produce a line that will be called Edie Rose for DKNY Jeans. For the Liz Claiborne Inc.-owned brand, this partnership will give them a chance to address a more fashion- forward customer. The line will initially include 15 pieces of sportswear mix: button down tops, sweaters, …

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Is Liz Claiborne Over? Issac Mizrahi Disses Target and Comes To the Rescue?

CAN ISSAC SAVE LIZ? (a winter trend a la Claiborne) Everyone loves a good whore and those in doubt should continue reading…. WWD has just announced Issac Mizrahi has just been named the Creative Director of the former 80s womens fashion powerhouse. His responsibilities will include “… brand design and marketing functions for women’s apparel, …

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