Did you know that tomorrow is National Underwear Day? Freshpair.com will honor this solemn national occasion with a runway show at Espace in Times Square sponsored by everyone from 2(x)ist to DKNY to Soak (which sells bath products, you perverts). [Racked Inbox]
Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest of this decidedly carbon-non-neutral trend we bring you, This Store Blows, highlighting the city's worst offenders. Want to join forces with us? Contributions, accompanied by a photo, are always accepted.
Stores: DKNY, Miss Sixty, Missoni, Dolce & Gabbana Date: 7/01/08. Time: 6:30PM. Why These Stores Blow: West Broadway's always an egregious offender: One place does it, and the entire street follows suit. Of course, frigid temps do make the prices of those sweet, sweet stripey Missoni dresses easier to swallow.
· This Store Blows Archives [Racked]
Dessert shop Tisserie opens an outpost in the Soho DKNY store today. And how is it that a dessert shop is the right fit for a store that doesn't exactly cater to the big boned? "To tailor this branch to the salad-eating masses, [Tisserie owner Ronald Harrar] places the focus on savories, including more veggies, pastas, meats and other lunch options. As for the desserts: "The beauty of our concept is that we have tried to minimize the sizes of all the sweets," says Harrar. "We have all the versions [of our pastries] in minis—mini tartelettes, mini croissants, mini pain au chocolats." In that case, we’ll have three." [TONY]
Today's Street Scenes subject is Jackie, shot on West 168th Street and Haven Avenue in Washington Heights. Feel free to vote on whether you like or dislike her outfit below—your choices are 'Perfection!,' I feel strangely ambivalent about it,' or 'Who Did This To You.'
Today's Street Scenes subject is Amit, shot on Tenth Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets in Chelsea. Feel free to vote on whether you like or dislike his outfit below—your choices are 'Perfection!,' I feel strangely ambivalent about it,' or 'Who Did This To You.'
Before kicking off your Saturday, take a moment, won't you, to peruse the top Racked stories of the past week.
1) Chelsea: The soon-to-shutter Chelsea Barnes & Noble store cleared its shelves this week with a massive sale. It's time to say adios to those free public bathrooms.
2) West Village: A Domino blogger offended half the West Village with a simple post about a Marc Jacobs store employee's website. The internet: still ruining lives.
3) Greenwich Village: Keffiyehs made a triumphant return to Urban Outfitters's shelves. Urban is calling them "desert scarves."
Today's Street Scenes subject is Trevor, shot in the Court Street subway station in Brooklyn. Feel free to vote on whether you like or dislike his outfit—your choices are 'Perfection!,' I feel strangely ambivalent about it,' or 'Who Did This To You.'
City Room tackles the DKNY bike controversy: "Legal or illegal, City Room was still trying to decide whether to be offended by the orange bikes, a a publicity stunt, in light of the white ghost bikes, but was quickly dissuaded by Carl Larson, an active member of the ghost bike community in Portland, Ore. As Mr. Larson explained in a lengthy e-mail message: 'As far as I’m concerned, it’s less productive to consider DKNY’s orange bikes an insensitive, greenwashing, publicity stunt than to look at them positively. DKNY is riding New York’s new bike wave while contributing to it by putting brightly colored ones on the street, proudly linking their name to them and, at the end of the day, providing every scrapper, freakbike builder, and petty thief with some great materials.' In its statement, DKNY added contritely, 'We are very sorry if our well-intentioned ‘Explore Your City‘ program offended anyone.'" [City Room]
Photo of orange DKNY bike in Williamsburg via TrespassersWill
Though many of the neon-orange bikes placed around town by fashion brand DKNY as part of some hair-brained marketing scheme have been carted off by police or removed by angry New Yorkers, a few remain. Roving Racked photog Will Femia spotted one just two days ago locked down outside the Bedford Avenue train station at North 7th Street where, he writes, "You may recall they recently widened the sidewalk to put in more bike parking." As is visible in the photo, many Brooklynites take advantage of the parking area—we're sure that DKNY's placement of a piece of advertising in one of those fought-over spaces didn't endear them any further to the already-offended biking population.
· Seemingly Innocuous DKNY Marketing Effort Manages to Offend Many [Racked]
It's hard to sort through the hundreds of looks coming down the runway this season. That's why Racked has partnered with the editors at Lucky Magazine, who are here to help pinpoint fall's best new trends; to follow, a peek at what you'll be coveting come August.
1) Pants tucked into socks: "I saw pants tucked into socks and ankle boots at Lacoste (pictured)—and the day before at Generra. I love this styling trick."
2) 40's-inspired silhouettes: "I'm kind of falling in love with a 40's-inspired silhouette, and the best one I've seen thus far was at Lyell (one of my favorite labels to begin with)."
3) Slouchy knit hats: "It's been hats galore over here on the runways, and the most popular shape seems to be a super slouchy knit. I loved the styles at DKNY...I also like Alexander Wang's cool, slightly masculine interpretation."
DKNY's latest marketing scheme has really pissed off some New Yorkers. The fashion brand decided to spray paint a bunch of bikes neon orange, then chain them up around town to promote alternative forms of transportation during Fashion Week. Activists are unhappy with the effort, noting that it seems to be a knock-off of ghost bikes, the white-painted memorials to cyclists that have been killed while riding. In response to an earlier post on the subject, a Racked commenter wrote: "The bikes where put into place late Friday evening and by Saturday afternoon they had all been defaced and removed spontaneously and, most likely by any one of the tens of thousands of bike riders in New York who found it offensive. The marketing campaign was not successful and the community has spoken." Ah, better luck next time Donna?
· RackedWire: DKNY Embraces Biking, JanSport News [Racked]
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Did you know that tomorrow is National Underwear Day? Freshpair.com will honor this solemn national occasion with a runway show at Espace in Times Square sponsored by everyone from 2(x)ist to DKNY to Soak (which sells bath products, you perverts). [Racked Inbox]
It's hard to sort through the hundreds of looks coming down the runway this season. That's why Racked has partnered with the editors at Lucky Magazine, who are here to help pinpoint fall's best new trends; to follow, a peek at what you'll be coveting come August.
