Amid all the hullabaloo about the economy, it’s easy to criticize the fashion industry and say that the financial woes of companies like Gucci and Versace are just deserts for encouraging frivolity.  It’s easy to say simply that this is no longer a world for luxury, and too bad if luxury fashion doesn’t sell anymore.
Yet [...]

One of our favorite dapper gentlemen is expanding his fashion empire: Zac Posen is slated to release a lower-priced capsule collection in conjunction with Target’s Go International line.
This announcement comes on the heels of news about Z Spoke, Posen’s exclusive Saks Fifth Avenue collection, and we’re pleased that designers like Posen are attempting to appeal [...]

Zac Posen joins fellow designers Doo-Ri, Thakoon, and Richard Chai, et al., in creating a lower-priced line called Z Spoke, which will be available exclusively at Saks Fifth Avenue for spring 2010.
We’re certainly surprised by the preview of the 60-piece line; rather than being a “Zac for less” or a “sister collection,” Z Spoke is [...]

For the past few years, internet marketplace eBay has been struggling to keep up amid slowly-declining interest in the site.  Despite the fact that the majority of merchandise on eBay is at fixed prices, like any other online boutique, there is still the perception that the site is merely a dumping-ground for auctioning off used [...]

International luxury brand Escada is still in hot water after filing for insolvency this August, but ZSL Partners, a consortium backed by the company founder’s son, Sven Ley, has stepped forward to bid on the fashion house in an attempt to save it from going under.
ZSL Partners is comprised of Ley, former head of Gucci [...]

Big-time fashion brands like Chanel and Gucci have already jumped on the iPhone bandwagon and created their own apps in order to stay connected with their more technologically-savvy customers, but few have programmed their apps to go beyond being outlets for mere virtual window-shopping.
Norma Kamali and Elie Tahari, on the other hand, are among the [...]