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Stores introduce new mannequins with more realistic curves
By Silvia Rueda | Feb. 5, 2014Your favorite store’s mannequins may be getting a makeover.
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Gainesville Fashion Week hosts casting call for new models
By Lauren Zika | Jan. 29, 2014Aspiring Gainesville models and designers may get their big breaks at Gainesville Fashion Week’s model casting call on Saturday.
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Urban Thread moves locations, expect sales and new stock
By Lauren Zika | Jan. 22, 2014Urban Thread announced Monday via Facebook that it will be moving to a new location.
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Miley Cyrus announced as face of Marc Jacobs
By Olivia Muenter | Jan. 15, 2014Miley Cyrus is once again creating a massive buzz in the entertainment world, carrying her 2013 media domination into the new year. Announced last week, Cyrus is officially the face of Marc Jacobs’ spring 2014 campaign, a major collaboration for the 21-year-old “Bangerz” singer.
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New Peter Pilotto for Target line leaked
By Elly Ayres | Jan. 8, 2014A handful of individuals were able to sneak a peek at the highly anticipated Peter Pilotto for Target collection, thanks to leaked images that infiltrated online fashion feeds in December. If you missed the window of opportunity, you’ll have to join the rest of the fashion world waiting for the line’s in-store debut Feb. 9.
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H&M debuts collab with French designer
By Olivia Muenter | Nov. 20, 2013Global retail powerhouse H&M debuted its long-awaited collaborative collection with high-end designer Isabel Marant this past week. Isabel Marant pour H&M was available for purchase as of Nov. 14 and was met with out-the-door lines and a frenzy of online activity that briefly shut down the H&M website.
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Try scarily cheap makeup tips
By Niko Pifferetti | Oct. 23, 2013Regina George of “Mean Girls” loves Halloween, and so do makeup artists — but for a decidedly classier reason.
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Fake pockets make real difference for charities
By Michelle Jackson | Oct. 23, 2013“Frockets,” or T-shirts with a faux pocket sewn onto the front, are saving the world one minutely stitched monogram and chevron-patterned pocket at a time.
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Here’s Johnny — Keep Halloween weird with Johnny Depp inspired costumes
By Angela Skane | Oct. 9, 2013Fall not only brings out the best coffee flavors, i.e. pumpkin spice. it also means it’s Halloween time. If you start planning now, you could rock a costume that screams Spooky Sally.
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Paris Fashion Week illuminates trends for spring/summer 2014
By Olivia Muenter | Oct. 9, 2013Paris Fashion Week has officially ended, rounding out the most magical month in the fashion world.
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Shoe design gives new life back to old materials
By Christine Flammia | Oct. 2, 2013Foam might be the future of footwear fashion. Two environmental experts at UF are optimistic about a shoe design that would be made from biodegradable, or recyclable foam, materials.
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Target collaboration for stylish clothing suits students
By Jennifer Hernandez | Sep. 18, 2013Tilman Monsanto thinks shopping for men’s clothing in Gainesville is horrible.
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Black Milk Clothing to launch Harry Potter-inspired women's clothing line Sept. 10
By Lauren Adamson | Sep. 4, 2013The kids who flocked to see the midnight premieres of the Harry Potter movies wearing striped scarves, fake glasses and lightning bolts drawn on their foreheads with their mom’s eyebrow pencils are all grown up.
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Consignment website Modabound expands to Gainesville
By Abbie Dorwart | Aug. 28, 2013More than a thousand people are using a new site to find inexpensive brand-name clothes. One hundred and fifty of them are at UF.
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'Underbutt' shorts trend is an outbreak on campus
By Lauren Adamson | Aug. 21, 2013Something is emerging on campus. Maybe it is the heat that brought them out.
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‘But it was 99 cents!’ A guide to Gainesville thrift shops
By Kelcee Griffis | Aug. 14, 2013Looking for a place to pop some tags? Only got $20 in your pocket?
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Improved social media promotes Wolfgang online store launch
By Olivia Langdon | July 17, 2013Wolfgang fashion clothing store off University Avenue has long forgone paper advertising after it saw little return for sales during the year of its establishment in 2007.
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A haute summer night: Gainesville Fashion Week to host first summer show Saturday
By Patricia Butler | July 17, 2013If you’re the type who likes half-naked models strutting their stuff down a runway, then keep your calendars open Saturday evening.
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"Mandals" disapproved by Facebook users
By Niko Pifferetti | June 19, 2013Guys just shouldn’t wear flip-flops. 6,530 people who like the Facebook page “Men shouldn’t wear Flip Flops” say so.
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Beware: 11 trends that should have died with the decade
By Lindsey Carman | June 13, 2013Trends — sometimes no one knows what to think about them. They either can be very ingenious fashion pieces, or they can make you think, “What the hell is this crap?”
