Time has compiled and published their list of The 25 Best Financial Blogs, and Dealbreaker has made the cut. According to Time, the list is comprised of sites that “offered the most useful financial advice, offered the best insight into the state of the economy or were just fun.” Financial bloggers were asked to review other financial sites, with Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reviewing Dealbreaker and Dealbreaker’s Bess Levin reviewing Dealbook.
Fashionista Story of the Day: Why L.A. Triumph Can Sue Madonna Over “Material Girl” Line and Win
By Lauren Sherman
Late last Thursday, apparel manufacturer L.A. Triumph Inc., filed suit against Madonna, claiming that her “Material Girl” line for Macy’s threatens their own “Material Girl” clothing line that they have been selling since 1997.
L.A. Triumph is hoping a judge will rule that Madonna’s new tween line creates confusion among consumers (“deception in the marketplace” in legalese) and that Madonna should fork over all her “Material Girl” profits to L.A. Triumph.
So how is it that Madonna, the original “Material Girl,” she who sang the song, could be infringing on L.A. Triumph’s trademark?
We checked in with our resident fashion trademark expert, attorney Anne Sterba, of leading intellectual property firm Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, to find out if L.A. Triumph has a leg to stand on. Read more on Fashionista.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that September fashion magazine covers are the most important of the year. With fall just around the bend, September issues are packed to the brim with the newest trends. (They’re also packed with advertisements, essential to a magazine’s survival.)
And if there’s one thing you can say about this year’s September covers, it’s that the good covers are great and the bad ones are truly horrible. Notably absent from the bunch are Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia, whose cover images have not surfaced yet, but are sure not to disappoint. Read more on Fashionista.
Over the last two decades, the occupation of stylist has gone from a behind-the-scenes job that those outside of the industry didn’t know existed, to a high-profile position that rivals “fashion editor” in its stature and gloss.
But what does a stylist actually do, and what does one have to do to get to the front of the pack?
We’ve enlisted super stylist Sally Lyndley–who’s worked with everyone from Katie Grand to Victoria Beckham–to give us a little insight into what her job really entails and why she’s so in love with it. Each week, Sally will offer us a peak into her world, from stories on the history of styling to Q&As with some of her favorite people in the industry.
To get things started, we’ve given Sally the Seven Questions… treatment. We’re so excited to have her on board! Read Sally’s interview on Fashionista.
It’s Christmas on Mad Men, and as this episode’s title proclaims, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year.” You’d expect everyone to be jolly with seasonal cheer, but this is Mad Men, so, naturally, everything takes a darker turn. Don spirals deeper into his alcoholism and depression, the former Draper residence gets egged, and the rest of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce works to deal with clients’ requests and each other.
The fashion on Mad Men is changing, and fast; women are leaving behind their New Look silhouettes for slimmer, shorter options, and men are experimenting more with suiting. Hair is higher and shorter, and large, statement jewelry plays a starring role. Everything is modernizing inside Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Everything except Don.
Read more on Fashionista.
When I started writing about fashion in 2004, street style photographers were not yet a breed. Well, at least not in the Western world. But with advent of The Sartorialist in 2005, that all changed. Today, just about every fashion related website, blog, what-have-you boasts some form of street style photography.
And while Scott Schuman, founder of The Sartorialist, may be the pioneer, he is no longer alone in his work. The streets surrounding fashion week runways have become flooded with a special type of paparazzi–the kind who you want to be bothered by.
Other than a good blog post, and some great inspiration, what do street style photographers get out of this work? Get the answer on Fashionista.com.
Fashion’s Night Out is quickly approaching and it’s going to be huge. During the week of September 10 events will be taking place across the globe. As we already reported, Vogue will be staging the biggest fashion show ever on September 7. As follow up, there will also be a CBS special on the 14 and a FNO-themed Gossip Girl episode on the 20.
But what about the day of? Not everyone’s plans are 100% locked down yet, although we’ve been getting scoops from a few retailers from NYC to Berlin and we just couldn’t wait to share! It’s never too early to start preparing for fashion’s biggest party, right?
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Not surprisingly, the most exciting events (at least that we know about) are taking place right here in NYC and yes, we got the scoop on last year’s show-stopper: Barneys New York. For more, visit Fashionista.
The Best Media Writing of the Week: Poop, Pandas, Dead Cats and Jon Friedman (Yes, Jon Friedman)
By Matt CreamerThe literary critic Harold Bloom once said the measure of a work’s immortality is whether it bears re-reading. If we believe that, then generations to come will be puzzling over Adam Rifkin’s “Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications.”
Granted, one reason I had to read it three times is because I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about. But re-read I did and not skip off to some other pursuit. That bears some relation to Rifkin’s point about Google’s difficulty with social apps, like Buzz. Historically, Google is about delivering information in an efficient manner so you can go do something else with. It makes you efficient the way a panda is efficient: eat-poop-eat-poop… for 16 hours a day. In contrast, social media platforms are all about sucking up your time.Facebook doesn’t help you eat. Or poop. It only helps you use Facebook. Or Farmville.
After researching what pandas do all day, I was struck by how panda-like we are when we use the Internet.
Roaming a massive world wide web of forests, most of our time is spent searching for delicious bamboo and consuming it. 40 times a day we’ll poop something out — an email, a text message, a status update, maybe even a blog post — and then go back to searching-and-consuming.
To: Bill Conneely
Subject: Responding to your “smackdown.”
So, first off Bill, let’s talk about customer relations. I argued on this media blog that the market for matching journalists with journalistic outfits (and PR people with PR outlets) is still somewhat inefficient — an observation that others in similar positions to me (aka: your customers) have noted too. I also granted, respectfully, that the closest thing there is to a good buyer-seller exchange is Mediabistro. And for that I got a “smackdown” from Mediabistro’s director of strategy. Perhaps a better approach would’ve been to say “thanks for noting that we’re the place to go, we continuously work to improve the system, and appreciate the feedback,” or even “we beg to differ and here’s why… ” but “smackdown?” Really?
Now let’s dissect this dispute. So, according to you, if I’m reading this correctly, there are two reasons why employers like my peers and me struggle to find people (neither of which have anything to do with the efficacy of the recruiting sites, of course).
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In Talking About State-Supported Media, The Form Can’t Be Separated From the Funding
By Matt Creamer
Bollinger, the 19th president of Columbia University
His specious logic rests on the fact that Americans — “ironically,” in a misuse of the word — already consume state-supported news in the form of PBS and NPR here, and the BBC, Al Jazeera and China’s CCTV abroad and that all is well with that arrangement. It’s near impossible to get past the holding up of an official Chinese news source as an example of a flourishing press, but there’s more if you can control your laughter…
