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September

Piles of pleats, big bags, longer everything: The strong style trends from Men’s Fashion Week Fall 2024 shows

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(Source, left to right: Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Gucci)

Florence, Milan and Paris were unseasonably cold over the last two weeks as designers staged their Fall 2024 menswear collections during Pitti Uomo, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week. Fitting, considering the clothes we were shown for next fall and winter prominently featured big coats and touched on enjoying the great outdoors. Some designers even celebrated the cold, like Pharrell, who closed out the Louis Vuitton show with a dusting of snow.

The runways were a showcase of looks that felt, on the whole, incredibly wearable. That was particularly evident in Milan, where Gucci launched a new menswear era for itself under the stewardship of Sabato De Sarno. If his predecessor, Alessandro Michele, was an unparalleled world-builder who pushed the boundaries of campy fashion, De Sarno seems set on making clothes that he — and a broader range of clients — want to wear. 

There was a similar feeling in Paris, where many of the big houses offered up collections that were less editorialized than recent years, with more approachable silhouettes. Oversized pants, for example, were replaced by the familiar straight-leg, slim-cut trouser.

Beyond that, though, these are the trends that

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06
August

Milano Beauty Week’s Sophomore Edition to Run After City’s Fashion Shows

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MILAN — Milano Beauty Week is changing dates for its sophomore edition.

After its debut last year in spring, the city’s consumer-facing event dedicated to beauty is moving to fall and will run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, right after Milan Fashion Weeks.

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The new timing and schedule of events was shared Friday, when the organizers hosted a press conference.

In addition to the new dates, another novelty is the doubling in the number of primary sites dedicated to the event. The Palazzo Castiglioni location will be added to the Palazzo Giureconsulti building in being turned into a Beauty Village that will host panels, workshops, laboratories and charity events related to the cosmetic world. These will be flanked by activations across the city, at beauty retailers, department stores, perfumeries and pharmacies, as well as cultural spots that will be involved in the week-long edition.

A brainchild of the national association of beauty companies Italian Cosmetics in collaboration with the Cosmoprof and Exxence trade shows, the initiative was introduced last year with the goal to promote the values ​​of the Italian cosmetic industry and create awareness around both the social and economic roles it plays in the

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24
June

Shopify’s First Shop Day Shows App-Focused Strategy Is Paying Off

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Could Shopify’s Shop Day grow to rival Amazon’s
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Prime Day as one of the top online shopping days of the year? Shopify executives certainly hope so, and the inaugural Shop Day gave them plenty of encouragement to believe that wish can come true.

Shopify is trying to convince more consumers to think of its Shop app as the go-to, one-stop destination for all their shopping needs, whether online or in-store.

It is facing new pressure from Amazon on the mobile shopping and convenience front. Amazon recently began allowing online retailers to offer a “Buy with Prime” button on their own sites that Prime members can use to get Prime shipping benefits even when not buying from Amazon.

Shopify launched the Shop app in 2020, with consumers at first using it primarily as a way to track packages. This year has expanded how merchants and consumers can use the app, and created incentives and promotions to increase the use of the app and Shop Pay, its payment platform.

On June 2, Shopify held its first Shop Day, and unveiled Shop Cash, a loyalty program

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05
June

HBO’s Being Mary Tyler Moore shows her style and spirit

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It’s hard to overstate the strength of the hold Mary Tyler Moore had over the culture in the 1960s and ’70s.

A new HBO Originals documentary, “Being Mary Tyler Moore,” goes a long way to returning the late icon to her proper place in the charisma canon, cementing her rich legacy of progressive television, subversive feminism and timeless style.

Moore had two major TV roles, first as America’s sweetheart, vivacious housewife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961 to ’66), then as America’s first real representation of a single career woman, Mary Richards in “The Mary Tyler The Moore Show” (1970 to ’77).

As an elementary school child of a working mom in the 1970s, I had an umbilical connection to the TV and, in particular, to the repeats of these two seminal shows. Thus it was that I burst into tears a half-dozen times watching this two-hour documentary, directed by James Adolphus. The scene that resonated with the most watched Oprah Winfrey erupted into a full-on scream upon meeting Moore: Winfrey was all of us who felt Moore’s warmth, vulnerability, charm and realness melt through the cathode ray tube and into our living rooms.

Moore’s wardrobe on

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