The Fashion Industry

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Pet Fashion Week, the weekend-long animal extravaganza, which kicks off Saturday morning at the Altman Building in NY, is geared toward trade and media folks, and features 160 exhibitors with the latest in pet apparel, leashes, bowls, food and bath products.

On Saturday night, about 25 canine models (half are former shelter dogs) are strutting down the catwalk sporting the hottest dog looks for fall. A third of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals, an umbrella group that represents more than 140 city rescue groups and shelters.

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To  celebrate its 150th year in business Macy’s , will host an 80s-themed Fall fashion event, “Pop Candy Arcade” fashion extravaganza this Friday that will feature the store’s new looks, as well as a heavy dose of retro.

The event kicks off at the Chicago Theatre with a choreographed fashion show with models strutting their stuff  down the runway to live performances by Cyndi Lauper and M.C. Hammer. The party continues at Macy’s on State Street with tunes spun by DJ Berrie. Tickets start at $47.

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The  knows how to get our attention: Playboy model, Daniela V.poses with Nutmegan, one of 41 bunnies the Humane League of Philadelphia rescued from cosmetic testing last fall. Daniela, will be speaking at Lush this Saturday to bring awareness to the Compassion in Fashion Campaign, which promotes cosmetics that aren’t tested on animals as well as fur-free wardrobes.

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Lanvin Fall/Winter ‘08-’09 is considered to be the most anticipated show in all of Paris. Excellence personafied… you decide.

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Justin Timberlake is getting ready for the showing of his new William Rast collection at New York Fashion Week next month where he will also preform during the showing at live music venue Roseland Ballroom.

William Rast is the clothing brand Timberlake started with his friend Trace Ayala. Timberlake will star in the ad campaign for the collection playing a character by the name of William Rast, a man who is ‘a rebel on the run’.

Timberlake will join Beyonce, Rihanna and Duffy among others to perform at this year’s Fashion Rocks on September 5.

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A bevy of starlets came out to celebrate the launch of Piaget’s Paris-New York Limelight collection Thursday night. The party, co-hosted by Vogue, was held at 620 Fifth Avenue in a Rockefeller Center penthouse. While the brand’s glittering and expensive baubles were on display inside, everyone gatered on the venue’s outdoor grassy patio. “Do you think I can get past security and just sneak up here on my own sometime?” asked an awed Zoe Kravitz. “I’ll bring a tent and camp out.”

Becki Newton, who recently relocated to Manhattan to shoot her show “Ugly Betty” seemed content in the concrete jungle. “I bought my dress right over there,” the actress said, pointing down Fifth Avenue to the Gucci flagship. “Everyone here has been saying, I can’t believe you actually own the dress you’re wearing.’ But why wouldn’t I want to?”

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The catwalk was actually  a catwalk on Thursday when show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress were strutting their stuff at New York’s Algonquin Hotel.

The feline fashion show unfolded in the dining room where Dorothy Parker presided over famously catty Round Table literary luncheons in the 1920s.

Thursday’s show benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin’s resident cat, who just turned 13.

She is the hotel’s ninth cat since the tradition started in the ’30s, when actor John Barrymore dubbed a bedraggled stray Hamlet.

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Betsey Johnson and her business partner Chantal Bacon celebrated the 30th anniversary of their business yesterday at Betsey Johnson’s Soho store in New York. Johnson and Bacon met in 1975 and launched the Betsey Johnson brand in 1978.

Johnson’s collection, known for its girlishness, became an instant hit in the 80s, with ruffled miniskirts, tutu dresses and wildly printed bodysuits. They were so popular that she plans to launch the Betsey Johnson Vintage Collection this fall, bringing back some of her most loved designs.

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This is only a sample of the strange and freaky designs by Chinese fashion institute graduates during a fashion show in Beijing, China, last year. The Chinese capital hosted the 10th China Fashion week which showcased original designs from across a country often criticized for producing cheap knock offs of designer goods. If this is what they come up with, no wonder they have to copy designers.

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Diet Coke is heading out in style for women’s fashion week in Milan at the end of this September.

Designer Roberto Cavalli dressed up the hourglass bottles in three different fashionable sleeves featuring his traditional animal spots and stripes.

These are really cute. Too bad we won’t be finding them here in the states.The limited edition bottles will only be available in Italy for a few short months this fall.  Cavalli likens his designs for the curvy Coke bottles to that of creating dresses, making them, “seductive and feminine, in typical Cavalli style.”

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