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Beyoncé has partnered with Topshop for a street wear line that includes footwear and accessories. This collaboration was announced last year; however, it was recently revealed that street wear-inspired clothing line will not be available for consumers until April 2016.
I have always loved TopShop for their fashion credentials and forward thinking. Working with their development team to create and produce a technical and fashion led collection is exciting and I’m looking forward to participating in all aspects of this partnership,” said Beyoncé in a statement last year.
The Topshop collaboration with Beyoncé is a 50/50 venture between Topshop and Beyoncé management company, Parkwood. Now, the question is what happened to the House of Dereon?
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Lipstick lollapalooza
The Kardashian/Jenner media and market domination continues!! And that was made evident when Kylie Jenner’s lipstick line, Kylie Lip Kit by Kylie Jenner, sold out in minutes after it went on sale Monday morning.
And though this sell out is almost unprecedented, no one is really surprised!! There was such a scramble for Kylie’s lipstick product that the site has slowed down and product will not be available for a few days.
The lineup includes three shades of brown, including Dolce K and Candy K, which are lighter nudes, and True Brown, which is like it says, brown. With the kit comes a three-step system that will leave you with a look similar to Jenner’s.
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A different Pirelli
Pirelli’s annual calendar has gone in a different direction for 2016. Instead of using nude or scantily clad supermodels for each month of the year, Pirelli for 2016 features 13 “women of outstanding professional, social, cultural, sporting and artistic accomplishment” from tennis pro Serena Williams to singer Patti Smith and the actress Amy Schumer.
Annie Liebovitz photographed the 2016 Pirelli calendar. When Pirelli approached me, they said they wanted to make a departure from the past,” Leibovitz says. “They suggested the idea of photographing distinguished women. After we agreed on that, the goal was to be very straightforward. I wanted the pictures to show the women exactly as they are, with no pretense,” explained Leibovitz in a fashionmag.com article.
Other women starring in the calendar include Chinese actress Yao Chen, Russian model Natalia Vodianova, producer Kathleen Kennedy, art collector and patroness Agnes Gund, leader, critic and writer Fran Lebowitz, the President of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson, film director Ava DuVernay, blogger Tavi Gevinson, Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat and the performer Yoko Ono.
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Cyber Monday boom
Cyber sales for Cyber Monday was bigger than expected with online electronics and toys making up the bulk of product sold. Sales in the US topped over $3 billion worth of sales.
“So many businesses fared better this year because they planned it out better,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at NPD Group, a retail industry research firm. “Overall, pretty much every retailer performed better than in years past,” as reported in fashionmag.com. Consumers were even encouraged to purchase Cyber Monday sales from their desktop and laptops at the office on this past Monday that may have account for the spike in sales.
Top-selling items included Lego Star Wars, the Barbie Dream House, Samsung 4k television sets and Apple Inc’s iPad Mini. Star Wars toys were among the items most frequently out of stock, Adobe said in a report sent to Reuters on Tuesday. Also frequently out of stock were Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s 55-inch screen 4K TVs as were some Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox console bundles.
—William S. Gooch
