Actress Nicole Kidman (L) smiles as she sits in the stands with her husband Keith Urban during the match between Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne January 21, 2008. [Agencies] Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban are using their celebrity status to branch out to the fashion-design world.
“The stockyards and somewhat gritty history are a part of Chicago but we’ve evolved,” he says. “I’ve lived in Chicago my entire 49 1/2 years and I’ve never seen fashion and art so alive here.” Mayor Daley’s appointment in 2006 of Melissa Turner as Chicago’s director of fashion arts and events has not hurt. Turner works to create a favorable environment for designers to deter them from fleeing to either coast.
NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world’s largest retailer, will move design and development of its apparel to New York in a bid to revive declining clothing sales and cut production time. Wal-Mart will close the product-development and sourcing divisions for men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing at its Bentonville, Ark., headquarters, spokeswoman Linda Blakley said yesterday. She declined to say the number of jobs affected.
BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Spirit of Women Health Network announces the February 5 opening of bidding for the Spirit of Women Celebrity Red Shoe Auction, an online charity auction of celebrity-autographed footwear that will benefit several health organizations, including the National Stroke Association and Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.) Coalition.
It retails online for $1,600. “It is definitely a piece that combines basketball and design,” Canalin said. “We wanted to take something you don’t really see as luxurious and make it a luxury item.” The Undrcrwn line started with Canalin, who began thinking about his own label while working as design director for And 1. He named the company Undrcrwn because he thought his potential customers considered themselves kings of the underground.
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Annapolis suffragette Margaret Boone Moss was angered when an Evening Capital editorial outlined reasons a College Education Pays, but barely mentioned women. She was perturbed enough to write a letter to the editor. It was published in the Aug. 30, 1932, edition of the paper. She noted the obvious discrepancy and continued: I have had the same thought regarding the local University Club.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Couldn’t escape from work or family last week to attend Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2008 Fashion Week in Paris? Can’t run off to New York next week for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week? No probleme! One luxury apparel brand, The Worth Collection, Ltd., is bringing Fashion Week to you.
The historical exhibition of clothing worn by faculty and students over the past century opens Wednesday in Gallery A, on the main floor of the Telus Centre for Professional Development at 87th Avenue and 111th Street. It runs until March 8. Heins, the guest curator, explains that nursing students would “walk across the High Level Bridge and throw their black stockings and black shoes over the bridge” at the end of their second year.