Retrieved from: http://www.ian.mb.ca/uploaded_images/fashion2100-737862.jpgSee caption http://www.ian.mb.ca/uploaded_images/fashion2100-737862.jpg. [Women's fashion]. Retrieved from: http://www.ian.mb.ca/uploaded_images/fashion2100-737862.jpgSee caption Comment May 22, 2014 A recent study suggests that ovulating women attempt unconsciously to purchase clothing that is more attractive than what other local women are wearing. According to post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, Kristina Durante, "The desire for women at peak fertility to unconsciously choose products that enhance appearance is driven by a desire to outdo attractive rival women...If you look more desirable than your competition, you are more likely to stand out...We found that, when ovulating, women chose sexier fashion products when thinking about other attractive, local but not distant women...If you are in New York, a woman who lives in LA isn't going to be seen as competition" (University of Minnesota, 2010) While the end result is the attempt to attract a man, the more immediate concern, according to Durante, is the woman's desire, first and foremost, to outdo other local women. "In order to entice a desirable mate, a woman needs to assess the attractiveness of other women in her local environment to determine how eye-catching she needs to be to snare a good man." In the study, researchers had ovulating women view a series of photographs of attractive local women and then asked them to choose clothing and accessory items to purchase. The majority of participants chose sexier products than those who had been shown photographs of unattractive local women or women who lived over 1000 miles away. This change in consumer choice is not a conscious decision and non-ovulating women are not subject to the effect. The current findings have practical implications for marketers because ovulatory cycle effects may profoundly influence women's consumer behavior. "For about five to six days every month, normally ovulating women -- constituting over a billion consumers -- may be especially likely to purchase products and services that enhance physical appearance," says Durante. Such products include not only clothing, shoes, and fashion accessories, but also cosmetics, health supplements, fitness products, medical procedures, and more (University of Minnesota, 2010).
The NBA Signs Fashion Company Peace Love World To Meet The Growing Demand Of Its Women's Apparel Market - Forbes
With a fan base that is 38-percent women, the NBA is one league that has made expanding its womens apparel options a focus. Recently, the NBA signed a league-wide license with Miami-based Peace Love World, a global luxury lifestyle brand whose clothes have found their way onto women from Oprah to Ellen and Jennifer Lopez to Kim Kardashian. With a laundry list of celebrity supporters lining up to wear Peace Love Worlds pieces, its perhaps no surprise that the NBA tapped the company to be one of a handful of league-wide womens apparel licensees. Whats unique about the relationship that the NBA created with Peace Love World, though, is that it was born from a relationship cultivated by one of its own teams. Last season, during the Miami Heats push during the NBA Playoffs, Peace Love Worlds creator, Alina Villasantes, phone would not stop ringing. Shirts resembling Peace Love Worlds design, featuring sheik and flowing fabric with simplistic, yet poignant, phrases were popping up at Heat games. The problem, though, was that they were not Villasante and Peace Love Worlds designs. Seeing the impact the designs were having on its fans, the Miami Heat soon reached out to Villasante and offered her the opportunity to sell Peace Love World products to Miami Heat fans at the teams store at its home arena through a team license. With the NBA Playoffs in force, the Heat were in the midst of their White Hot Heat marketing campaign, which sees nearly every Heat fan attending the teams home games wearing white apparel. With her team license in tow, Villasante and her team pulled every white piece of clothing in Peace Love Worlds warehouse and began designing womens apparel meeting Heat fans desires.
- Product technology. garments are produced:- using all types of fabric, in terms of both spun materials (cotton, wool, linen, silk, man-made and mixed fibres) and textile techniques (woven, knitted). - using animal or synthetic leather (made of impregnated fabric/coated with polyurethane resin that looks like natural leather) ; - using animal or fake fur (made from a fabric produced with natural, artificial or synthetic fibre that looks like animal fur). - Function: as with all products in the fashion industry, in addition to its primary function of covering and protecting the body, clothing has a social purpose and acts as a status symbol. This greatly influences the characteristics and evolution of consumption and competitive trends. - Intermediary clients: the main clothing companies supply directly to retailers (short distribution channel, composed of independent stores, direct mono-brand and franchise chains and large scale retail traders), whereas small companies often use the wholesale channel (long distribution channel) to reach retail customers. This report analyses the main competitors operating directly on the market. These companies have strong brands that encompass all or some of the main types of women's clothing and increasingly extend to total looks, i.e. also including footwear, leather goods and other accessories. Key Topics Covered:1.
(AP) Authorities say they've arrested a suspected burglar who was wearing women's clothes stolen from a suburban Los Angeles home. Police say a woman reported someone had ransacked her beachside home in Seal Beach on Monday night or Tuesday morning, stealing about $100 worth of clothing. Sgt. Philip Gonshak tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://bit.ly/1g0qA7B ) that on Tuesday, police saw a man walking down a road wearing women's tight, black dress pants and a green blouse.
The synthetic dye is widely used but some forms can be hazardous to human health as it can break down into carcinogenic chemicals. When the ACCC found a minority of tested items from clothing and bedding companies contained the hazardous dye at higher than acceptable levels, the companies were asked to recall the products. All complied immediately, said the ACCC, including Target. Target Australia is initiating this action as it does not meet Target Australia strict quality assurance standards, the companys recall notice said. Whilst this dye stuff is not banned for textile use in Australia, expert authorities classify these azo-colourants as carcinogens. Exposure to these chemicals should be minimised. Thursdays recall from Target applies to three styles of childrens pants and two styles of womens jeans, and comes after warnings for clothing from national retailers including Rivers, Just Jeans, Myer and Trade Secret, as well as for pillow cases from Pillow Talk. The evidence available to the ACCC from testing does not suggest there is a widespread problem, the ACCC deputy chairwoman, Delia Rickard, said at the time. Many Australian suppliers have systems in place to avoid particular dyes being used by manufacturers overseas, she said. There are no specific regulations relating to the Azo dyes, but the ACCC was working with government and stakeholders on a regulation impact statement, a spokesman told Guardian Australia.
Rabbi Moshe Ben Moshe, a senior rabbi in the Israeli city of Netanya, was seen on video screaming, and burning iPhones and women's clothed on Sunday, during the Lag Bomer festivities. Before burning the iPhones and the womens clothes the rabbi said: Those of you who chose to burn their iPhones and immodest clothes, will be blessed by God. The first iPhone fell out of the fire before being burned. This iPhone is the devil, it refuses to be burned, Ben Moshe said. More than a thousand people were dancing around the fire while the rabbi was busy with the burning ritual. It is estimated that burned iPhones and clothes were worth more than 25,000 shekels ($7,250).
Christopher & Banks will be located next to rue21. Construction on the 4,300 square foot store will begin in about a month and is expected to be complete by this fall. Christopher & Banks Corporation is a Minneapolis-based company that stared as Braun's in 1956 in the Twin Cities. It now has 605 stores across the country. 2014 KELOLAND TV. All Rights Reserved.
According to a new Radar Online report published on May 17, The Real Housewives of New York star LuAnn de Lesseps is now launching her own clothing line called, Countess Luann Apparel Collection. This week, LuAnn announced that she would be selling her clothing line on ShopHQ. On the show, LuAnn had been thinking about doing her own shoe line and had been thinking about how she could start her own business. Now, she has a clothing line and it sounds like she wants to share her fashion sense with the world. Of course, she does wear fashionable items while filming the show and now she wants to share. Now, everyone can look like LuAnn. I love fashion, LuAnn revealed. Were all busy. We all want to look stylish, so I created a line thats chic made easy. And given her hard work on the collection, she is proud. Its comfortable, stylish and affordable, she said. It works from day to night and is figure flattering, trans-seasonal and elegant.
boutique, directly across the street from the Windsor Arms, specializes in leather jackets, bags and other leather accessories.... Me to We / Cabbagetown 223 Carlton St. 416.964.8942 Website Me to We maintains a Toronto storefront nextdoor to their Toronto headquarters in Cabbagetown. On the shelves are plenty of sustainable and socially conscious fashion and design objects including jewelery,... Me! Studio / Leslieville 1270 Queen St.
- Function: as with all products in the fashion industry, in addition to its primary function of covering and protecting the body, clothing has a social purpose and acts as a status symbol. This greatly influences the characteristics and evolution of consumption and competitive trends. - Intermediary clients: the main clothing companies supply directly to retailers (short distribution channel, composed of independent stores, direct mono-brand and franchise chains and large scale retail traders), whereas small companies often use the wholesale channel (long distribution channel) to reach retail customers. This report analyses the main competitors operating directly on the market. These companies have strong brands that encompass all or some of the main types of women's clothing and increasingly extend to total looks, i.e. also including footwear, leather goods and other accessories. Key Topics Covered:1. INTRODUCTION TO METHODOLOGY2. SECTOR DESCRIPTION 63.
Scope This report analyses all fabric (woven, knitted), leather and fur outerwear for adult women (over 14 years of age). Product technology. Garments are produced: using all types of fabric, in terms of both spun materials (cotton, wool, linen, silk, man-made and mixed fibres) and textile techniques (woven, knitted). using animal or synthetic leather (made of impregnated fabric/coated with polyurethane resin that looks like natural leather).