Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Fur for fashion banned in Israel

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  Here's the story from Ynet: Israel becomes first country to ban sale of fur in fashion trade .   " Israel announced a ban Wednesd...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Brioni Legendary Minds: interviews and suits, and economists as clothing models

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Brioni, the men's suit maker, has a series of video interviews called Legendary Minds, of unusually well dressed men. The videos are a...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Why own your own (fashionable) clothes?

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There's a rental market for fashionable women's clothes, Rent the Runway The NY Times ran a feature story on it: The Transformat...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Swap clothes on swapdom.com

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Swapdom  is a site for trading clothes. It came to my attention through this blog post:   Swapping clothes instead of kidneys
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Is it possible to be too young or too thin?

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Could using too young or too thin fashion models become repugnant? The NY Times is on the case:  Checking Models’ IDs at the Door "I...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

The true meaning of "fashion forward." Coordinating dates in NY, London, Paris, and Milan

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The fashion forward among you will probably be as relieved as I am to know that New York Fashion Week Finally Has An Official Start Date: Se...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Beautiful work and the beauty premium

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It pays to be beautiful, but it's risky to try to make it big on beauty alone. That's the message from recent books and other work ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Flash sales--buying in a hurry

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Time Is Money ... "But commerce will always require the creation of scarcity, bottlenecks and stampedes. The most immediate way to do...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

You can be too rich or too thin: Repugnance and fashion

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Well, maybe you still can't be too rich (although let's wait until all the government bailouts settle down before we rush to judgmen...