Fashion’s Night Out Kicks Off Today
Fashion’s Night Out officially kicks off today September 8th in major cities worldwide. The annual retailer bonanza will feature the most exclusive retail stores and designers along with the hottest fashion trends and celebrities. The official t-shirt from the FNO 2011 collection is available at select stores and online retailers. The collection has been expanded to include pima cotton short-sleeved T-shirts for men and women, long sleeved T-shirts, totes, and hats with the signature FNO logo, abstracted cityscape print, and unique fashion prints.
For FNO event listing click here.
Athletes’ Stock Rises In Fashion Industry
Forget plus size models. Female athletes, according to a story today in the New York Times, are pushing the boundaries of what the public perceives as ‘classic beauty.’ Guy Trebay pegs his argument on a long roster of muscular, yet cosmetic endorsement-ready sports stars–from Maria Sharapova and Mia Hamm to the Williams sisters. But a new face, that of women’s basketball player Brittney Griner, is apparently giving the cause even more steam.
“She is part of a slowly unfolding civilized response in the country to the slightly androgynous female,” a scholar tells the paper. “I can imagine a market for that,” Paul Rowland–a revered scout at the modeling agency, Women–adds of his potentially signing a gender-bending, yet conventionally “good-looking” female athlete such as Griner.
