Berit Eis
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Plastic bag afterlife
I spend most mornings in front of my laptop, catching up on news and trying to eat some of my five a day.
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Icons may die, but their iconic presence doesn't
Thursday the 25th of June 2009 will forever be remembered as the day the King of Pop died but it was also the day my first style icon passed away.
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Multi concept stores – a sign of the times?
Walking around New York in recent months I have sadly noticed far too many empty shop windows or stores announcing their imminent closing down sales.
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Not such a Topshop?
If you want to believe the hype then New York’s been feeling deprived since last year’s announcement of the delay of Topshop’s launch, but if you ask anyone in the Lower East Side or Greenwich Village if they feel they have been missing out on trend driven pieces at affordable prices, the answer is no. At the end of the day what they couldn’t find in the bargain galores on Manhattan, mainstream designers were providing them at Target in Queens.
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The first lady's seal of approval
Well, not for Mrs Obama. In the last few weeks she has graced the cover of Vogue as well as O, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine. If there is a woman sizzling at the moment, it is Michelle Obama. And where she walks, women follow. Which may be what Isabel Toledo (New York’s most glorified Cuban mistress) and the designer of the inauguraration outfit worn by the new first lady, is hoping for her new venture at Barneys. Although Isabel Toledo may have been designing ...
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