Donating clothes and canned food is old news. In today’s modern world, you can donate your unused Twitter characters to a good cause. A new application called Hashtags4Heros will auto-populate the unused characters in tweets with messages to raise awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), an organization seeking to honor and empower veterans wounded since 9/11.

The application, launched by WWP supporter Raytheon for Military Appreciation Month, aims to create awareness for the ...more

Designer Reed Krakoff has teamed up with fashion photographer, illustrator and blogger Garance Doré for a unique visual collaboration. Doré photographed different versions of Krakoff’s classic Boxer bag in various distinctive settings during her travels through New York, Paris, London, Milan and Marrakech, creating playful imagery that focused on fashion, geography and displacement.

“It’s the kind of bag you get so attached to that you end up taking it everywhere you go,” Doré said, ...more

Print magazines are on the upswing. As reported by WWD.com, Opening Ceremony, the multifaceted retail environment comprised of shops, showrooms and private label collections, will launch a collectible fashion and culture magazine in August. The publication, named the OC Annual, will center each issue on a theme. OC Annual’s debut edition will focus on sports to celebrate this summer’s London Olympics. The founders of Opening Ceremony, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, already have ...more

After the prestigious Met Gala and its stunning night of fashion on May 7, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened its Spring 2012 art exhibition, “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.”  The exhibition, organized by the Costume Institute of the Met, explores the remarkable affinities between the two Italian designers from different eras.  Inspired by Miguel Corvarrubias’s satirical “Impossible Interviews,” curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton have composed ...more

Sephora, the popular cosmetics chain, initially opened its first United States location in SoHo in 1998 and now, the store along with three other Manhattan locations are receiving full makeovers, as reported by WWD.com.

The original SoHo store unveiled its new look last week which now boasts a 30-foot Beauty Studio ready to conduct express services of customized makeup applications, a private Personal Beauty Advisor room, a separate fragrance room that allows clients to explore scents ...more

As Fashion’s Night Out looks forward to celebrating its fourth year this September, the ever-growing, annual worldwide shopping extravaganza will take place in 19 markets across the globe, including cities in Greece, Brazil and Italy, as reported by WWD.com. According to a statement from British Vogue, a handful of countries will be hosting the event in two or more cities.

In Italy, Milan, Rome and Florence will be hosting events, while Germany will celebrate in Berlin and Düsseldorf ...more