Editors Are Forecasting

Editors Are Forecasting: Mirror, Mirror

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I’m just saying…
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Editors Are Forecasting, Fashion

Suzy Menkes: That’s it FOREVER

This morning I came across an interesting and relevant video interview with fashion editor Suzy Menkes.  If you you’re asking yourself, “who is Suzy Menkes,” here is my Suzy Menkes for Dummies:

Fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune

Contributing editor to select prime fashion rags

Attends over six hundred fashion shows a year

Very influential

British

Known for [...]

Celebs, Editors Are Forecasting, Fashion, Marketing

Editor’s Are Forecasting: Color

Editors Are Forecasting

Culture Clash, Color Smash

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Your first comments after we sneak-peaked the new Culture Clash spring ad campaign were:
fun colors
love the oranges, pinks & turquoise
looks great, I love the colors
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So you can see color is going to be a big part of Double D Ranch’s Spring 2010 Collection.   They are a bright and vibrant melting pot of hues from diverse [...]

Editors Are Forecasting, Fashion

I’m with the Band

The Last Stand Jacket was fun to design.  It was a “what if George A. Custer” crossed with “deconstruction” at the Battle of Little Big Horn, but was given the orders to “play nice,  be free”.

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Well, what came out of that creative process was Double D Ranch’s ‘Last Stand Jacket’.  A funky mix of vintage, [...]

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Editors are Forecasting: Biker Bibs

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Ok, before you panic, I’m not talking about Hells Angles wearing pabulum pinafores…

breathe, breathe…

‘Biker bibs’ is a self coined word describing the current trend of biker-metal detailing combined with two other key looks: the bib necklace and the graphic tee.
Voila, Double D Ranch’s™ ‘Ring Tee’!
Metal, biker, and bib necklace on an easy wear [...]

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Editors are Forecasting: Heavy Metal

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Metal Details?!
Are you kidding?  …well this is a no brainer.
Double D Ranch™ collectors know we always have great leather jackets loaded with metal details and this season is no exception.  In fact we have more than the usual offering.  Super high domed nailheads, pierced rings and a new staple effect are just some of the [...]

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Editors Are Forecasting: Chain Reactions

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Ever Since Givenchy first showed mounds of chains on the runway, fashion editors have been forecasting gold chains and designers have been channeling Mr. T from the 70s television series The A Team.  Well, at least that’s where I got the inspiration for Double D Ranch’s™ ‘Me and Mr. T Tee’.
I piled up [...]

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Editors are Forecasting: Medallion Necklaces

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The eye blinding collection of Tsarist Russia’s Imperial jewels and ecclesiastic bling were the subject of the traveling exhibition that came to Houston back in ’97.   I stood in line one Sunday afternoon to see “The Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial Court”.   I have always had a curiosity about the last [...]

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Editors are Forecasting: Plaid Outerwear

Continuing from our previous post:
What do Catholic school girls, 80’s grunge bands, Braveheart and now let me add lumberjacks, have in common with Double D Ranch™?
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More plaid.
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Double D Ranch’s™ “Jack Fork Mountain”  jacket will be your ‘go to’ jacket this fall even if you don’t chop wood for a living.    The suede finished edges [...]

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