Apparel

1. I wouldn't have picked Dior's January couture collection as a major fashion moment (John Galliano punched an out-of-date ticket for the Gibson Girl), but the scene illustrated the tension between the weird and the wonderful that exists in fashion.

Teen fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson isn't crazy about celebrity designers. 

"Too often I feel people are expected to drop a couple hundred dollars just because X celebrity was good in Y sitcom, thus somehow making X's design abilities top-notch," the 14-year-old wrote in an article for Teen Vogue. "So, though a fan of Gwen Stefani's music, I wasn't sure what to expect when I entered the L.A.M.B. studio."

The past year in fashion was marked by the stunning loss of the industry's most captivating iconoclast and the dazzling return of its most charismatic star. Together these two outsized personalities helped transform the 21st-century fashion industry into an irresistible world of Hollywood theatric

Today's issue of Threads looks at men's fashions for the office, the home and the cruise you should be going on to avoid this winter weather.

The announcement of Carine Roitfeld's successor as editor-in-chief of French Vogue is expected to arrive next week and industry insiders have named two prominent possibilities: Emmanuelle Alt and Virginie Mouzat. What do we know about each?

Superior Uniform Group, Seminole, Fla. announced that Benjamin Alpert has been promoted to the position of vice president of regional sales effective immediately.

Oxford Industries Inc. has sold its Oxford Apparel division to LF USA, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based multinational Li & Fung Ltd., for $121.7 million.

New York-based Anvil Knitwear, a leading manufacturer of socially and environmentally responsible apparel and accessories, today launched Shirt Scan, an iPhone application that allows retailers, brands and consumers to deliver multimedia content via apparel to their target audiences.

Small cap stocks have outperformed large and mid caps this year, and growth stocks have outperformed value stocks in all 3 market cap sizes.

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