The Daily Fix: Fashion Industry News Tues

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…

MACY’S, BLOOMINDALE’S EXPAND SAME-DAY DELIVERY SERVICE – RetailingToday
“Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s are racing to join other retailers that are turning their stores into mini-fulfillment centers in an effort to challenge Amazon.com.”

JEREMY SCOTT REFLECTS ON HIS NEW YORK MEMORIES TO CELEBRATE MOSCHINO’S NEW SOHO STORE – Style.com
“I think I had a parasol and a little lunch box and a bag carrying everything and some platform shoes—the whole thing. And then every street corner someone was like, ‘Oh, I love your bag!’ ‘Oh, I love your skirt!’ ‘I love your hat!’ It was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m in heaven, I’m where I belong!’”

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: SAVAGE BEAUTY IS MOST POPULAR SHOW IN V&A’S HISTORY – The Guardian
“A retrospective of the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen was the most popular show ever staged at the Victoria and Albert museum, deputy director Tim Reeve has said. More than 480,000 tickets were sold for Savage Beauty, the V&A’s theatrical, romantic and sometimes eerie exhibition of McQueen’s work which closed on Sunday night.”

ORRY-KELLY: THE OSCAR AWARD WINNING DESIGNER OF HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN ERA – CNN
“Hell must be filled with beautiful women and no mirrors.” So wrote Orry-Kelly, one of the great costume designers of Hollywood’s golden era, and the man behind its leading female stars: Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe.”

FAST FASHION GIANT TEAMS UP WITH DISNEY ON FLAGSHIP – RetailingToday
“Fast fashion retailer Uniqlo is expanding its collection of Disney apparel and taking its partnership with Disney to a whole new level with a planned flagship store at Disney World. The fast growing Japanese retailer will open a store in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., in the spring. It will be the retailer’s first store in the southeastern U.S. Uniqlo already has 42 stores in the U.S. and plans to open more stores this year.”