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How a 26-Year-Old From Dallas Turned Fashion Blogging Into Big Business

Affiliate marketing is almost as old as the Internet; it developed back in 1994 thanks to pornography sites, and it was implemented by Jeff Bezos at Amazon shortly afterward. Here’s how it works: Say you search for flights on Priceline. The hyperlinked airfare results aren’t just any old links. They’re affiliate links. The act of […]

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Reading List: Fashion Week

Emily Perper is a word-writing human for hire. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. It’s Fashion Week at Longreads. From street sense to the ethics of cool, fashion is a fitting follow-up to last week’s “Believe in Your Selfie.” 1. “Girls on the Street.” (Katie Haegele, Utne Reader, September 2013) Forget Fashion […]

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Reading List: Fashion Week

Emily Perper is a word-writing human for hire. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. It’s Fashion Week at Longreads. From street sense to the ethics of cool, fashion is a fitting follow-up to last week’s “Believe in Your Selfie.” 1. “Girls on the Street.” (Katie Haegele, Utne Reader, September 2013) Forget Fashion […]

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John Fairchild turned his family’s dry fashion trade journal, Women’s Wear Daily into one of today’s most influential fashion publications. The 85-year-old looks back on his controversial career: Unlike in Paris, where couture designers were revered, Seventh Avenue was then dominated by garmentos while the designers toiled in the back rooms as relative unknowns. Fairchild […]

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[Not single-page] Tory Burch’s ex-husband Christopher Burch has a new fashion line called C. Wonder. But some in her circle wonder if it draws a little too much inspiration from her own brand: To Chris Burch, C. Wonder is the realization of a long-held dream to provide low-to-mid-price retail in a luxury setting. To Tory […]

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