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The Daily Fix: Fashion Industry News Thurs

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Good morning designers!  The Thursday 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…

THE NEW MOSCHINO STORE WAS MADE FOR INSTAGRAM – Yahoo!
“If New Yorkers wanted to get their hands on a McDonald’s cashmere jumper dress, a Barbie handheld mirror iPhone case, a Bugs Bunny basketball jersey, or any other Moschino item, they had to use the Internet. But now, the Italian brand has opened an outpost in Manhattan. So what would the brick-and-mortar dominion of Jeremy Scott’s wild mind look like? I had to go see for myself. ”

FORGET INTERNING—THESE DESIGNERS LAUNCHED THEIR OWN FASHION LABELS BEFORE THEIR SWEET 16 – Vogue
“It’s not easy being a teenager, and the idea of attempting to break into the fashion world when you’re still battling acne and high school heartache seems far-fetched at best. Between the requisite schooling and apprenticeships, launching one’s own label comes with growing pains of a very different kind.”

ETSY CRAFTS ANOTHER DISAPPOINTING QUARTER – RetailingToday
“Currency fluctuations and promotional costs led Etsy.com to report another lackluster quarter of financial results, as the retailer warned more trouble may lie ahead.”

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN UNVEILS LUSCIOUS LIPSTICK LINE – Forbes
“Soon you’ll be able to wear Christian Louboutin’s signature red on your lips. The luxury shoe designer has just unveiled a lipstick line inspired by Queen Nefertiti and the Art Deco movement, featuring 38 shades in three different textures: Silky Satin (comprised of 20 medium-to-full-coverage colors with a hint of shine); Sheer Voile (nine gossamer hues with a luminous glow); and Velvet Matte (nine rich and opaque pigments with a soft matte finish).”

TEMPORARY TATTOOS, NOW FOR GROWN-UPS, TOO – The New York Times
“At a Friday night cocktail party early this year at the auction house Christie’s, some 400 prospective buyers in their 30s and 40s were checking out the old masterworks up for auction, including Caravaggio, a pair of Canalettos and a sketch by Rubens. But the art that drew the most fuss from the collectors was free: temporary tattoos that echoed the paintings for sale, including demons by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch and the monogram-like signature of Albrecht Dürer.”