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...crisp pair of jeans ... Button up." (Concertgoers quickly followed his lead, he says.) Dash, Rocawear's CEO, isn't a fan of the new trend. "This is the dress-shirt winter. I'll just stay warm and still while that winter blows by," he says. But he knows dressier styles are an important way to build the brand. Rocawear is billing fall as the season when "the hip-hop look graduates." Classic warm-up suits are still a key part of the collection, but now there are striped button-down shirts for men and corduroy blazers with collegiate-style crests...
Casual dress may finally be acceptable in the workplace, but fashion designers are predicting a return to dressier styles for fall. So what is the appropriate work-wear uniform? Two fashion retailers are providing an easy answer this month. For its 50th anniversary, Ann Taylor is reintroducing the silk shirtdress, below, that made the retailer famous in 1954. The original pattern came from the founder's father, a dress wholesaler. For those who aspire to something hipper than this retro style, Express is betting on the sleek, sophisticated look, introducing a new line of fitted pants, sweaters and tailored jackets...
...Manhattan preview of Fahrenheit 9/11 last week felt more like the opening of some hip eatery than that of a subversive political documentary that takes a full two hours to criticize the president. But then again, everything in New York is a little dressier. Hundreds of creatively coiffed and pierced twenty-somethings, tempered by a strong showing of Upper West Side middle-aged couples (read: my parents) queued up to see director and gadfly Michael Moore’s most controversial film to date. Oh and then there were a few others: the groups carrying signs and enlisting moviegoers...
...retail trend-tracking company, only 38% of women who buy golf apparel actually play in it. "Golf is more than just a practical sport now," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group. "People are buying golf clothes for multiuse, as a way to make casual clothing dressier." So it makes sense that fashion designers like John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld are also getting into the game with funky golf-apparel lines that are not just for the fairway. At Christian Dior, Galliano?who has never picked up a club in his life?has created a line of offbeat...
...retail-trend tracking company, only 38% of women who buy golf apparel actually play in it. "Golf is more than just a practical sport now," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group. "People are buying golf clothes for multiuse, as a way to make casual clothing dressier." So it makes sense that fashion designers like John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld are also getting into the game with funky golf-apparel lines that are not just for the fairway. At Christian Dior, Galliano--who has never picked up a club in his life--has created a line of offbeat...