July 2009

Fashion Industry News Roundup: 07/31/09

July 31, 2009

1.) U.S. Recession Is Worse Than Previous Estimates Stated:“The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed. The world’s largest economy contracted 1.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the [...]

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Room With a View (Seattle Seafair Boat Parade 2009)

July 29, 2009

A couple of video clips of the activity outside our windows today as the boats paraded through Elliot Bay as part of Seattle’s annual Seafair event. Some quick photos, as well. I was hanging my camera out the window, which doesn’t necessarily provide the best angle, but it was almost 100 degrees outside (with the [...]

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Photos: Pure Oud By Kilian

July 27, 2009

There’s a certain mindset that equates paying a premium price for perfumes with getting a fragrance that’s loud, aggressive and impossible for anyone else within a twenty foot radius to ignore. It’s the same kind of mindset that wants a tire screeching, revving, brightly shellacked Ferrari when shelling out a small fortune for an automobile [...]

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Fashion Industry News Roundup: 07/25/09

July 25, 2009

1.) Ungaro Kicks Its Hot Young Designer to the Curb:“Emanuael Ungaro really is parting ways with its head of design, Esteban Cortazar …. Following a lengthy period of less than emphatic denials and weak shows of unity between Ungaro and the label’s ceo, Mounir Moufarrige, the decision has been taken to dissolve the relationship . [...]

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Dahlia’s From the Pike Place Market

July 21, 2009

The dahlia is named after the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl. He didn’t discover the dahlia, but it was from the Netherlands that our modern hybridized dahlia’s emerged. From Wikipedia : “In 1872, a box of dahlia roots was sent from Mexico to the Netherlands. Only one plant survived the trip, but produced spectacular red flowers [...]

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Quick Sniffs: M. Micallef Vanille Aoud; Miller Harris L’Air de Rien; Serge Lutens Chene

July 20, 2009

M. MICALLEF VANILLE AOUD: I was all prepared to write that I’d finally found a Montale oud that I enjoyed when I took a second look at the sample label and realized that I was testing out the M. Micallef Vanille Oud and not a Montale, so the bad news is that I still have [...]

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Introducing the New Camera

July 20, 2009

Experimenting with a new camera (it arrived Friday). I haven’t taken any bottle shots with it yet, as I want to wrap my brain around what it can do (and how it can do it) before I sit down and formally introduce it to my one true love. But it takes great photos of flowers: [...]

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Fashion Industry News Roundup: 07/17/09

July 17, 2009

1.) Designer Fashion Meets the iPhone:“The new application, appropriately called NET-APP, allows consumers to browse the latest collections and complete transactions directly from their iPhone or iPod touch, making Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Balmain more available than ever. The site’s current homepage even features a tiny Roland Mouret who wanders onto the screen and [...]

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Photos: Serge Lutens Chergui

July 16, 2009

So yesterday was the birthday, and it started out ordinarily enough with breakfast at The Four Seasons (can fried Kobe pastrami with beet hash and sunny-side up eggs at The Four Seasons be considered anywhere approaching “ordinary”?) and then coffee with double chocolate shortbread cookies at Fran’s Chocolates (again, the question is begging), and I [...]

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L’Artisan Parfumeur Fleur de Narcisse (Exceptional Harvests Collection 2006)

July 14, 2009

L’Artisan’s Fleur de Narcisse was released in October/November of 2006 in a limited edition of 3,000 bottles and modeled along the same premise as a single vintage, single varietal bottle of wine — for example, if the soil and weather conditions conspire to create a particularly striking grape for a particular geographical region and year, [...]

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