Katharine Jones's blog

Cheap and chic - European jeans and the high-end denim market

As they did with the cheap plastic furniture sold at an Ikea near you, Scandinavians are way ahead of us in their taste for jeans, and are paying far less for them, too.

Lifestyle brands and the price of cool

One label with street-fashion credibility is pushing its commodity of coolness a new level.

Digital watches for the tech dork at heart

Since it's invention in the early 70s, the digital watch has been treated more as a novelty then a serious accessory. But some of the latest versions, like ones produced by Chanel and Penguin, are replacing upgrading the expected rubber and plastic, to gold, silver and crystal.

Sephora takes on Penneys

I’m all for making the formerly inaccessible available to all, but this just seems like a poor match.

Kate makes an expected return to skinny jeans

Fashion, among other things, is suppose to be fresh and exciting, and in maybe only idealistically, gives people a chance to reinvent themselves.

Heatherette's taking aim on your little sister

I’m all for the fun of teenage fashion, especially when it’s at a price that even I could save up my milk money to afford, and I really do love the tongue-in-cheek humor that Rich and co-designer Traver Rains bring to the fashion community, but I hope they leave Paris Hilton out of this one.

Designers are getting serious about copy cats

Some high end designers are pushing for copyright protection for fashion design similar to the protection given to other forms of artistic expression, like books and music.

The cool thing about Keds

Mischa Barton's latest advertising campaign for Keds has a few eyes rolling - again.

Spree shopping and the foreign mass market

A recent article in Women’s Wear Daily reported on a shopping trend amongst teenagers in Singapore. Known simply as “sprees,” these mass orders from online retailers are just the latest evidence of the westernizing and globalization of seemingly not-so-foreign-now markets markets.

McDonald's tee shirts stink

Is the image of what some see as one of America's worst gifts to the modern world really what anyone needs to make a fashion statement?

Carrie's shoe problem just got bigger

Yeah, it's true that "Sex And the City" hammered home the luxury labels, bringing them to an audience hungry big-city fashion, but there’s a big difference between clever product placement or brand worship, and actually “vulgarizing” something.

Scion takes a stab at sportswear

Adrants flatly stated that, "that boxy SUV is so hip, it's spawned a fashion label," but it seems to me more like the overzealous brainchild of brand planning and developing.

Urban Outfitters will steal your cupcakes

Knock-offs suck, but screwing over working artists sucks even more.

Avril wants to sell you a handbag

For someone who spent so much time scowling at the camera, I find the idea of her as model of the high-end products she now covets as kind of ironic.

The cutest chicks to sell handbags

For once, a handbag advertisement is sort of relatable, even if it’s starring a chicken.

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