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Some fashion news we can afford to hear about: Vena Cava for Uniqlo launches tomorrow! The much anticipated collaboration kicks off May 12th, at the Uniqlo in Soho tomorrow with the delicate beauty you’d expect from the design duo of Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai. They’ve mixed their soft eye with the technologically advanced and well-priced fabrications of the major Japanese brand.
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The Museum at FIT here in NYC is giving away a pair of tickets to Japan Fashion Now Symposium 2010. Keep reading to find out how to win.
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Link Love:365 Project: Day 9 & 10
Day 9: My new boots! I adore them.
Day 10: My super cute Japanese tea set a friend got me.
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SOURCE:J Crew on Business Week
We always enjoy reading about the behind the scenes at J Crew and this week Business Week has a fun read. Here’s an excerpt:
Through dozens of innovative partnerships, Frank Muytjens is putting J.Crew menswear front and center … Drexler, 65, has long been admired for his obsessiveness, and in Muytjens, 50, he has found his ideal employee. Clad in a vintage Japanese work shirt and perfectly weathered 10-year-old Levi’s cuffed over J.Crew’s own brown Sperry Top-Siders, Muytjens is tall and slim with a silver pompadour. He grew up in Holland and moved to New York in 1994 to establish himself as a designer. After working at Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) for eight years, he landed at J.Crew in 2004. In 2008 he took over as head of men’s design. Now he’s leading the brand’s transformation—a gradual updating and upscaling of its preppy look that began when Drexler joined the company in 2003….
Read the full story here.
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