Wednesday, October 21, 2015

FASHION NEWS Italy's Victoria's Secret Competitor Targets the US, A Plea for Runway Models to Slow Down

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Lily Aldridge at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Lily Aldridge at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
These are the stories making headlines this Wednesday.

Victoria's Secret is about to get an Italian rival

Italy-based Calzedonia Group, which owns Intimissimi lingerie, Calzedonia socks and Falconeri knitwear, will be opening stores in the US within the next couple of years, directly taking on Victoria's Secret parent company L Brands Inc. Calzedonia Group's billionaire owner Sandro Veronesi thinks that American women "would like to have an alternative" to the mass lingerie brand. We'll see if that's true. {Bloomberg Business}

Models need to slow downWriter Bernadette Morra is sick and tired of trying and failing to get the perfect runway photo — a sentiment that we at Fashionista totally understand. "I get that show producers like the energy of models racing down a runway to a thumping beat," she writes. "But what they gain in momentum, they lose in publicity." {Fashion Magazine}

Why Bernie Sanders's lack of dress sense works for him

Why does Bernie Sanders get away with looking rumpled and unkempt while other politicians can't? According to writer Paul Farhi, his age — and the lack of value or attention that society places on his physical appearance compared to women — allows him to make anti-fashion statements, which supporters then interpret as authenticity. {The Washington Post}

Nordstrom is aiming for $20 billion in sales by 2020

Long before its competitors, Nordstrom invested heavily in outlets,

e-commerce and mobile. Now the retailer is setting another big goal: $20 billion in annual sales by 2020. But some big challenges lie ahead, including the opening of a New York flagship, a costly gamble on Nordstrom's part. {WWD}

Lena Dunham working on a new show set in the '60s

Lena Dunham is currently working on "Max," a 1960s-era comedy about a journalist working in the midst of second-wave feminism. (Sounds very Dunham, no?) The pilot will be directed by Dunham and written by "Girls" writer/producer Murray Miller. But we're most excited about the period costumes. {The Hollywood Reporter}

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