By Ali Cudby
Lovely models at Bella Intimates of Rye, NH 10th Anniversary fashion show and celebration featuring Cosabella ‘Magic City’ theme.
As a boutique, your branding is intimately entwined with the vendors whose product graces your shelves. As retailers, you can turn these vendors into partners to grow your business and your branding.
Enhancing your relationship with manufacturers is critically important in branding your lingerie store, for many reasons. … Read More
By Elisabeth Dale
How do you make decisions regarding your breast health? Do you schedule an appointment to talk to your doctor or keep up with the latest medical research? Would a social media breast cancer awareness campaign guide your actions? This October exposed some new and unusual methods of getting women to focus on their breasts, turning to social media to get their message out. They introduced catchy hashtags, … Read More
by Marina Rybak
There is a unique design resource thriving in Long Island City not far from Queensboro Bridge. This tucked away creative paradise is Penn & Fletcher. “Painting with stitches” custom-made embroidery atelier is in the realm of its own, fusing precious heritage and traditions of the past with the state-of-the-art pioneering ingenuity of the present.
Its founder Ernie Smith completed his first hand embroidery sampler when he … Read More
I have been in Cabo San Lucas now for several weeks, living under the radar, getting away from it all and spending my time split between house responsibilities and horseback riding. Here I ride daily at Cuadra San Francisco, a world class family owned equestrian center and a multi-disciplined riding facility with over 50 horses in their stable. Ribbons and trophies in every iteration of the sport line the … Read More
By Jennifer Cermak
Arriving to stores mid-November, the 2014 cruise collections feature ethnic prints in bold colors like lagoon blue and tropical orange. Purple and lime move into accent colors featured in trims and accessories. And of course, the best bright white and jet black monochrome duo’s hit the shelves just in time for people to purchase a great happy hour suit.
So what is the lifestyle of the cruise … Read More
By John Festa
I passed Victoria’s Secret on Fifth Avenue the other night and noticed the bras on display in the window. They all had such a wide side wings and back bands that I exclaimed to my companion “These would be great to combat back fat” — only to look up at the signage and see these bras were being sold as just that: Back smoothing push-ups.
It is … Read More
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