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Designer Michael Costello Aims to Empower Women Through Fashion

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Michael Costello dressed Beyoncé in a handsewn white lace and nude mesh dress for the Grammy Awards in 2014. Without the constant notifications from texts, calls and emails, I’m much more productive and creative. The item of clothing I can’t live without is… a black, well-fitting blazer. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.

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Keep a Classic Approach to Your Brand

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You can go from everybody wearing your clothes to nobody wearing your clothes surprisingly fast. The Spanish customer has different tastes, different buying habits, different credit preferences; the French customer will have a different expectation of how the cloth in a jacket should feel.

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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What started as an Etsy store expanded so substantially that celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Candace Cameron Bure have worn her clothes in magazines , on TV and in their everyday lives. Inclusivity was an important part of how K-DEER handled production and marketing. An abrupt stop. K-DEER strove to be sustainable.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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If you don’t know where to look, seek out marketplaces that cater to small businesses like Etsy, Uncommon Goods or a new marketplace called Spouse-ly , which sells a wide variety of handmade products and services created by military and first-responder families. And thus in 2014, mumi was formed. Courtesy of Orangewood Guitars.

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The New Secrets of Perfect Sleep

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The key to a healthy, happy and productive life is what happens between the sheets—meaning sleep, of course. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared sleep deprivation a public health epidemic in 2014, noting that “about 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems.” Michael Breus, Ph.D.,

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Experts Say You Probably Don’t Really Know How to Brainstorm

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One clothing manufacturer added a square patch of microfiber material on shirttails to use for cleaning eyeglasses or smartphones. Each group has five minutes to come up with a unique invention for the object, give it a unique name and present a two-minute product pitch to the remainder of the team,” she says. Channel your inner child.

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Shoe Organizer: Creative or Just Weird?

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Shelves in the back of your closet, off-season clothes under the bed. Originally posted 2014-01-19 10:02:10. by Maximizing storage space is always a good idea. This wacky shoe organizer caught my eye. I think it’s a clever idea, but the notion of lying in bed surrounded by a fringe of shoes is a little unsettling.

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