New York fashion startup Stitch Collective released the latest in its line of leather accessories this week. Dubbed The City Bag, the $465 design by Parsons alum Omar Aguirre is a gray and green tote that’s enough to hold a laptop, yet streamlined and architectural enough to look polished, even when packed full with your [...]
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ModCloth’s Make the Cut competition is back again. With the latest installation of the ongoing contest series from the much-loved, online-only brand with indie spirit comes proof that crowdsourced fashion continues to hold promise for retail brands, not only as a way to engage fans, but also as a buzz generator with an oh-so-practical payoff: [...]
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You can think of it like the arrival of etsy 2.0: handcrafted accessories and lovely, well-designed items created by independent artisans, crafters and makers from around the world are at the heart of a slew of new and worth-a-look style startups. Great for hunting down gifts and little treasures you won’t find everywhere else, here [...]
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Crowdsourcing for deals and apparel is well-trodden territory, but for luxury goods designed by small, artisan makers? That’s a bit of newness you’ll find from Zanoby, a crowd sourcing site that soft-launched this week with a limited offering of design-focused finds made by Italian artisans. Given my longstanding love affair with independent fashion, I was [...]
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