Cut Lines for July 12 2013

Cut Lines for July 12 2013

It’s a good day to be a fan of fashion. Let’s get to the news.  Fred Boutique will be closing its Water Street location, according to the Business Journal, which means no more Black Friday 3 a.m. jaunts for this journalist.  A “Refashion for Life” charity fashion show is planned for Sept. 11 at Callen Construction’s Muskego Showroom (S63 W13131 Janesville Rd.)  to benefit CommonGround Ministry/Elena’s House.  BuzzFeed has started a “How I Made It in Fashion” series in which Amy Odell transcribes conversations from those who have earned some sort of discernible fashion-industry success. Here model Josephine Skriver talks in great…

It’s a good day to be a fan of fashion. Let’s get to the news. 

  • Fred Boutique will be closing its Water Street location, according to the Business Journal, which means no more Black Friday 3 a.m. jaunts for this journalist. 

  • A “Refashion for Life” charity fashion show is planned for Sept. 11 at Callen Construction’s Muskego Showroom (S63 W13131 Janesville Rd.)  to benefit CommonGround
    Ministry/Elena’s House. 

  • BuzzFeed has started a “How I Made It in Fashion” series in which Amy Odell transcribes conversations from those who have earned some sort of discernible fashion-industry success. Here model Josephine Skriver talks in great detail about her personal connection to gay marriage as well as how she was discovered.  
  • One celebrity stylist spared no details when describing to Italian Vogue what it was like to style Beyonce and Rihanna. It’s fantastic. 

  • As previously reported, Uniqlo is opening stores in Bangladesh. The BBC has the details how it plans to do so.

Think I missed something? Email me at claire.hanan@milwaukeemag.com or tweet @cchanan.

Claire Hanan worked at the magazine as an editor from 2012-2017. She edited the Culture section and wrote stories about all sorts of topics, including the arts, fashion, politics and more. In 2016, she was a finalist for best profile writing at the City and Regional Magazine Awards for her story "In A Flash." In 2014, she won the the Milwaukee Press gold award for best public service story for editing "Handle With Care," a service package about aging in Milwaukee. Before all this, she attended the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and New York University's Summer Publishing Institute.