Cris Barros: Concrete Plans (Style.com)
During our recent trip to South America, we were introduced to designer Cris Barros and her business partner Luiz Felipe. Barros is one of Sao Paulo's hottest designers. This is a piece we wrote for Style.com on her new flagship which opens in March.

Fashion Change: Hilfiger's IPO is shelved (Wall Street Journal)
Tommy Hilfiger is the first high-profile fashion IPO scheduled for 2008 that has been called off as global economy continues to deteriorate. Will Prada call off it's IPO for the fourth time running? Just last week, DowJones contacted The Business of Fashion to ask our opinions on this very topic.

Paris Men's Fashion Week (Men.style.com)
We caught the tail end of  Men's fashion week for Autumn 2008 in Paris this past week. Dior Homme was dark and dramatic and London designer Jsen Wintle sent out a palette dominated by grey and black. Earlier in the week, Raf Simons injected some welcome color with burnt oranges and redsinto the season's dominant colour, which also appeared in his collection: Grey