Wednesday night, web editor Harry Sheff and I attended a GQ-sponsored event for Ray Ban at Bloomingdale’s SoHo store. It was a consumer event, but we thought we’d stop by to see the turn-out. After trying on a few pairs of Aviators and Wayfarers and sipping fruity, brightly colored drinks, we made our way up to the cologne counter on the street...

Tuesday afternoon’s 2009 Fashion Scholarship Fund Roundtable was appropriately themed “Redesigning the rules of fashion in today’s economy.” Moderator Tim Gunn began with, “These are trying times, but I’m confident we’ll end up in a better place.” I couldn’t help but think—these students are lucky they’re still in college. Hopefully by their graduation the...

Screaming girls, shirtless guys, and…polo shirts with moose emblems? Hmm, these three things don’t seem to go together, unless you’re at New York City’s Fifth Avenue Abercrombie store.

Lately, there are more articles about teens feeling the economic pinch. When MRketplace.com reported September’s same-store sales, Abercrombie's had dropped 14 percent...

I searched the Trafik tradeshow floor in Miami for fresh and exciting trends for spring ’09. While I didn’t find anything completely new and innovative, I did find brands executing current contemporary trends very well.

Left: Cardigan by Drifter. Right: Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl wears a cardigan with a dress shirt and tie.

Cardigans:...

When Karen and I walked into Project last Tuesday we never thought we’d leave with a new pair of Nudie jeans. We stopped by to check out the spring collection when Diego Rosa of Want Agency asked if we wanted to swap our jeans for a pair of theirs.

I was a little skeptical (I was wearing one of my favorite pair of black skinny jeans) and Karen was...