Tag: fashion

  • Star Wars: The Merchandise Awakens

    The designer’s job is to take buzz and capitalize upon it. This is also the marketer’s job, and the ones who work for George Lucas and Disney Inc. are the best in the world. Did you know a new Star Wars movie was opening December 18? If you didn’t, allow me to point out at…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, all! This week’s magazine is one that only comes out a couple times a year. The editors have a clear vision of this semi-annual special issue of Esquire: “Whatever stratum we travel in, we are a consuming class. We don’t defer; we see what previous generations of men would have called extravagance as our…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everybody! This week’s magazine is an oldie but a goodie! Before Amy Shumer, Tina Fey,  or Margaret Cho, before Bust, and “Sex and the City”, there was Helen Gurley Brown, who was single and loved it.  She wasn’t the only reason that single womanhood switched from meaning “pitied” to meaning “fabulous”, but she sure…