MOVE OVER NY, NUTTER GIVES PHILLY A FASHION INCUBATOR!

What is a fashion incubator? Good question. On Tuesday December 13th, 2011 Mayor Nutter announced the birth of the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator at Macy's in Center City. An effort on both the city, and department stores account, the idea is meant to inspire and nuture young designers. These amateur designers will have 600 square feet of studio space in which to work, as well as participating in workshops and seminars to learn business skills as well as tricks of their trade.

"In addition to fostering Philadelphia's creative class, we believe the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator will promote Center City's economic development, in particular through expansion of Chestnut Street East," Nutter said Tuesday afternoon at Macy's to about 75 Philadelphia fashion professors and people in the industry.

Nutter hopes that this new system will help put Philadelphia on the style spectrum and hopefully draw in high end designers such as Gucci or Prada.

...Who knew Nutter was such a Fashion Nut?!

SOURCE:http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-13/news/30512204_1_young-designers-tory-burch-top-designers

Shocking new Style ALERT

We're so digging the new vibe of H&M's collection inspired by the renouned novel "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," but what has so many spectators of the collection up in arms? Perhaps its the concept surrounding the collection; one of rape and repressed emotions. This shocking new take on fashion has many questioning whether this is morally correct, to make something so terrible into mainstream fashion. What do you think of the new look? Like, love, or despise it? Tell us your opinion of this dark twisted chic collection.

Story update:
Jennifer Ward, an H&M Spokesperson, issued the following statement in response:
We have read the open letter by Natalie Karnefwe apologize if she or anyone has been offended by the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo collection by Trish Summerville – this has not in any way been our intent. The collection is based on and inspired by the film and character Lisbeth Salander and though we think Lisbeth is a strong woman who stands up for her ideal, we are not trying to represent her specifically. Our goal is to rather offer a collection that we see in today’s trend picture that will appeal to many customers. We do not view this collection as provocative-it contains pieces that are staples in many people’s wardrobes: jeans, biker jackets and t-shirts. It’s all about how you wear them. We encourage our customers to find their own personal way to wear our products.

SOURCE: http://blogs.wsj.com/runway/2011/12/09/fashion-rape-survival-and-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/