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On Thursday, April 6th 2006 FILA and New York Collective for the Arts hosted a special in-store launch event, open to the public, at Fila's award-winning flagship store to celebrate the unveiling of the Artists Play Too Limited Edition T-Shirt Series.
The international team of designers were on hand to sign their limited edition t-shirts, talk about their creative process and created collaborative paintings that were auctioned off at a party that evening benefiting the NYCOLLECTIVE.
Follow the link below to view photos from that day and the subsquent party.
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Finish Line, one of the nation's leading athletic specialty retailers, today announced that it will debut the nation's first Paiva store in Austin, Texas at Barton Creek Square on Friday, April 14th.
Additional openings this spring include Natick Mall near Boston, Westfield Annapolis in Maryland, Mall of America in Minnesota and Bellevue Square in Seattle.
"Paiva stores are designed specifically for the active woman," says Alan Cohen, CEO and Chairman of Paiva's parent company The Finish Line, Inc.
"These stores have a unique atmosphere that provides style, vitality, inspiration and product offerings showcasing the best athletic brands and premium design collections."
The inspiration of the store focuses around light and energy, and Paiva encompasses both of these elements.
Paiva means sun diety or "of the light" - and light is a source of strength and energy for women, as is fitness a source of energy and strength for active women.
The concept embodies the idea of "Energy from Within" - women who shop in the store will discover energy within themselves and within the store.
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Tiffany & Co. and Frank Gehry: In a collaboration of historic significance the world's preeminent jeweler and most innovative architect have created jewelry of astonishing originality and sensual beauty.
These are designs the world has never seen before. Sharp angles. Fascinating juxtapositions.
Only Tiffany could transform these remarkable ideas into jewelry. The result is astonishing.
Each of these form engages both out intellect and our deepest emotions.
Here is exquisite jewelry, years in the making, born of a revolution and steeped in a new and daring sensuality.
New materials, such as pernambuco wood, black gold and cacholong stone.
New textures, with surfaces treated to create a startling play of light.
A bold new vision of arresting shapes and forms that reflects Gehry's lifelong passion.
On a woman's skin these tactile and emotive forms are charged with kinetic rhythm and bursting with spontaneity.
Chic. Glamorous. Fashionable. Defiantly so.
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We've all done it. Whether we made the purchase or not, we've all at least thought about putting our wallets above our conscience and investing in a good, quality, knockoff.
It seems harmless, but according to the United States Customs and Border Protection, American businesses lose between $200-$250 billion a year in valid sales due to the production of counterfeited merchandise.
Though most nations protect fashion designs under property protection laws, the United States currently does not award copyrights to apparel because the bestower of patents - who clearly missed McQueen's fall 2006 giant gauze-wrapped deer antler headdress - deems clothing "useful articles," not works of art.
While logos and names can be trademarked and protected - earlier this month Seven For All Mankind was awarded $4 million in damages from a trademark-counterfei ting suit - specific designs are unprotected.
Looking to amend the status quo is Congressman Bob Goodlatte from Virginia, who has recently approached the House Committee on the Judiciary with the Design Piracy Prohibition Act.
The proposal moves to amend the Copyright Act to provide legal protection for fashion designs for a period of three years.
This anti-piracy act has support from the Council of Fashion Designers of America among other industry big shots, but some
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It is so difficult to find clothes that will stand the rigors of long-haul travel, when sartorial elegance is usually the last thing on our minds.
These days there's a whole new brand of garment specially designed to help us when we're on the road.
Whether you're on a train, a plane or even in a car, you want clothes that do the trick: wrinkle-free, stain-free, and most importantly, comfortable.
In other words, smart - yet sensible - clothing.
Thomas Pink "Traveller" shirt's design features are hidden, with secret pockets for valuables.
It's got two breast pockets, one behind the other.
The second one is made for your passport. In the cuff, there's a place for a spare credit card.
The hidden credit card is not the sort of thing you can easily get to if you want to make an impulse purchase, but if you are on the road and you need to hide something, this might be the answer.
It just all seems a little fiddly for every day use.
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