1. Burberry is launching their social networking site, artofthetrench.com, today. In case you want the jacket without all the new friends, peruse our guide to the best trenches. [Elle UK]
2. Luxury lingerie label La Perla is streamlining its operation as well as founding a new line, Villa Toscana. We have high hopes for those bras to be pretty darn good. [WWD]
5. New Yorkers, it seems, are tough on celebrity designers, particularly when compared with cities like Los Angeles. If it’s quality rather than a flashy name they’re looking for, picky shoppers should peruse our guide to leggings and skip Lindsay Lohan’s. [NYDN]
4. Lord & Taylor defied expectations by trying to take the chain more “mainstream,” and apparently it’s working. This makes plenty of sense to us – who can refuse a good, well-priced blazer along with other American classics? [WWD]
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