July 18, 2019
If you are into (or just currently in) clothes, you may want to try this on for size: Urban Outfitters, Inc. (UO) has just launched Nuuly, a clothing-subscription service. For 88 bucks a month, subscribers can choose 6 items from UO, Anthropologie, Free People, third-party designers and vintage collections—and then swap them out for new […]
January 12, 2012
Following the November sale of its namesake brand, Liz Claiborne has announced it will change its name to Fifth & Pacific, effective May 2012. The company—which retains the brands Kate Spade, Jack Spade, Lucky Brand, and Juicy Couture—proclaims on its new website: Fifth & Pacific is the intersection of our intrinsically American brands. It is […]
March 31, 2011
If you ever asked me for evidence of how far good brand naming can take a company, my Exhibit A would be Spanx. For those of you who live under a rock or aren’t women (or both), Spanx is the hip underwear company that’s been smoothing the thighs, middles and other flab-alanche prone areas of […]
February 9, 2010
I was screening names on Google and stumbled upon these pants at Target.com. Pita Bread pants? What do you wear them with, a hummus top? (Ba dum bum!)