To launch their debut swim collection with Malia Mills, kate spade new york created “Swan Dive or Cannonball,” a chic, colorful video piece starring girl-about-town Hailey Gates.  Brad Goreski, the label’s Exclusive Brand Stylist, styled the video, in which Gates lounges by a pool sporting the Cockatoo Calendar Girl Bikini.  She later looks sassy yet [...]

Here’s one way to get over fashion collaboration fatigue — instead of the usual luxury/mass retail partnerships, some high-end designers are joining forces with a pretty funny range of generally unfashionable consumer products.  From ice cream bars to the kitchen sink (no, really) check out the amusing items to which designers are lending their skills [...]

Yet another example that it’s imperative to reach customers via every angle — Piperlime, previously online only, is opening its first store, in Soho, this fall.  The multibrand retailer could be leading the way for bigger companies, like Amazon, to do the same. Celebrity-edited looks the ones above will carry over to Piperlime’s first-ever physical [...]

As online retail continues to edge in on brick-and-mortar business, it should come as no surprise that e-commerce buyers are taking over at Fashion Week, too.  For the first time ever, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Australia reported that representatives from online retailers outnumbered their physical counterparts in the shows’ front rows. Among the “clicks outnumbering [...]

Kate Moss, of course, started it all with her several year run at Topshop.  A number of younger models are following in her footsteps, embracing collaborative design with established retailers.  The latest is Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who just announced that she’s launching a lingerie line at Marks & Spencer in September. It makes sense that Huntington-Whiteley [...]

Joanna Lumley of Ab Fab poses for Marks & Spencer’s new Oxfam campaign. We love everything about this — the retail initiative, the eco-friendly side, the celebrity spokesperson.  Joanna Lumley of Absolutely Fabulous (the hit British show about two delusional, of-a-certain-age fashion types) was just named the face of Marks & Spencer’s shop-and-swap initiative.  The [...]

Earth Day falls on April 22 this year, so we thought we’d get you ready for an eco-friendly weekend with the best in green design that’s still as fashionable as can be.  Luckily, our favorite online shopping curators feel as good about sustainable style as we do, and produced an array of good-looking picks this [...]

Justin Timberlake and Estee Stanley work together to choose items for HomeMint. Even if Kim Kardashian’s ShoeDazzle just backpedaled on their members-only monthly pricing policy, product of the month clubs are still going strong.  Justin Timberlake is the latest to join the online Mint cult — er, family — with HomeMint, his new home goods/art [...]

H&M’s red carpet-ready offshoot of their Conscious collection hits stores today, making it easy for anyone to get on the sustainable evening wear bandwagon.  Following in the footsteps of Livia Firth (Colin Firth’s wife and founder of the Green Carpet Challenge), Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James Cameron and founder of Red Carpet Green Dress) [...]

The Huffington Post is already surmising that the niche world of online fashion technology is experiencing a bubble, and it’s inevitably going to burst.  In reaction to that, you could gird your loins, or get ready to roll with the punches.  A number of new-ish fashion technologies are already doing the latter.   These businesses are [...]