FASHION INDUSTRY NEWS – TUESDAY

Good morning designers!  The Tuesday edition of the StylePortfolios.com Daily Fix is up and ready for your reading pleasure.  What are you waiting for?  Get a coffee, sit-down and get your day started-off right with the The Daily Fix…

ALL THE SUITING GODS CAME OUT TO PLAY LAST NIGHT – GQ
“The 2015 British Fashion Awards took place in London last night and while Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, Karl Lagerfeld, and JW Anderson (who won menswear and womenswear designer of the year) were the focus of the ceremony, these seven men stole some attention away with their all-out dashing suits. This wasn’t an event where playing it safe was an option—and yet none of these guys took the fashion theme too far. Keep these badass-but-sophisticated looks in mind on your next fancy night out and all will be well.”

MODEL KARLIE KLOSS TAKES OFF – The Wall Street Journal
“In the ’80S teen flick Weird Science, two nerdy guys conjure up a beautiful woman who makes them instantly cool. On a fall day in New York’s SoHo, it seems as if two young men at the do-it-yourself invention store littleBits have done just that when a svelte, black-clad 23-year-old suddenly joins them at a back table. She tinkers with pieces of electrical circuitry and strikes up a discussion of computer microchips. “It goes back to binary code,” she says. “Or chemistry,” one guy interjects, asking, “Was it silicon and then germanium?” “Silicon was the later evolution for transistors,” she says.”

TIFFANY’S SALES ARE FALLING – Business Insider
“Upscale jeweler Tiffany & Co reported a surprise drop in quarterly sales as a strong dollar hurt tourist spending in the United States and reduced the value of sales from other markets.”

UGG LAUNCHES ANTI-COUNTERFEIT SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS – FashionMag
“NetNames, a global firm specializing in anti-counterfeiting, revealed last week that the US loses $225 billion a year due to counterfeiting. The company also stated that online counterfeit sales have increased over 15% in 2014, and it expects the number to increase. Ugg aims to turn the tables on counterfeiting with the launch of its anti-counterfeit social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter.”

ZAPPOS AND VIRGIN AMERICA PARTNER ON CHARITY SHOE – FashionMag
“Zappos and Virgin America on Thursday unveiled a new limited edition partnership shoe, the ‘Virgin America Pump in Concourse Red.’”

THE TOP 8 SNEAKER COLLABORATIONS OF 2015 – Footwear News
“Music’s most influential artists and top brands have made major statements in the sneaker world. We rank this year’s biggest hits.”