Spring is coming, Fashion’s everyday people, Tumblr’s troubles, Versace revenue up, The next generation

| Daily Digest

Bloggers front row at Dolce & Gabbana | Source: Le Bon Chic

You Can See Spring Coming (NY Times) “Mr. Wang is a boy disguised as a designer — or maybe it’s the other way around — but whatever the case, he doesn’t want to grow up, and the clothes naturally follow that youthful spirit… Prabal Gurung’s show on Saturday had a pronounced erotic undercurrent that in its blunt use of violet, and the transparent hems of silk print dresses, owed something to the style last season of

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Shopping as entertainment, India’s growing appetite for luxury, Rodarte’s sister act, BFA nominees, Tavi’s ‘Rookie’

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Zegna virtual store iPad app | Source: NY Times

Next Step for Labels: Cyber-Boutiques (IHT) “The ultimate challenge for all luxury brands is to go digital — without losing their key attributes of individuality and identity. Yet click onto almost every big name fashion Web site and while the product offering might be tempting, the experience is often bland and only two-dimensional. The success of Net-a-porter.com and of its witty masculine version, Mrporter.com, is the

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Rick Owens’ dark empire, Golden shears, India’s models face racism, Jane Pratt’s comeback, Generation creativity

| Daily Digest

Rick Owens | Source: Vice Magazine

Rick Owens: The prince of dark design (Independent) “In a fashion climate ruled by luxury-goods conglomerates and an excess of merchandise that is both overwhelming and, increasingly, banal, Owens’ less-than-conventional career trajectory – his business turned over more than $50m last year – is an inspiration. ” The Golden Shears – the Oscars of the tailoring world (FT) “Sometimes we can be so

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The Best of BoF | Top 10 Articles of 2010

| Intelligence

LONDON, United Kingdom — It’s been quite the year for the BoF team. In January, we will celebrate our 4th birthday, having seen BoF grow from a passion project created from the sofa in my living room to a growing global community of like-minded fashion professionals that is BoF today. We are grateful for all of the support our community has shown us over the past 12 months, from the success of our sold-out Fashion Pioneers

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The Fashionable Rise of Tumblr

Fashion 2.0 | New York

Tumblr Page Views | Source: comScore Inc.

NEW YORK, United States — According to comScore, microblogging platform Tumblr hit an “inflection point” sometime last June. Page views on Tumblr.com — which lets users create mixed-media blog posts with the kind of extreme simplicity and immediacy not found in traditional blogging platforms — began to surge. By October 2010, page views in the U.S. were up a staggering 1,540 percent from the year before. According to the New

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