Finally! I've got a new look, a new name and a new blog at www.CindyEdelstein.com. I'm so excited!
Expect a lot more content and please don't be shy to comment or ask questions on the new site. CindyEdelstein.com offers a lot more information on the rest of our projects and events, too. So much to share! I hope you join me there.
Thanks to my favorite new NYFashionista blog, Racked.com, I never miss a trick even when I can't get into Manhattan to shop.
This report on the Project Runway PR coup just made me smile:
"What would lure us into standing outside in midtown for over an hour on this cold Manhattan day? Why, the chance to see Nina Garcia, Michael Kors and our beloved Tim Gunn celebrating Project Runway's return to New York! They were there to help the city proclaim today "Project Runway Day" and temporarily name Seventh Avenue at the Needle Threading a Button statue "Project Runway Avenue." read the Racked.com blog here
TOWN & COUNTRY* has a new look,says the magazine industry blogger Meg Weaver on her weekly enewsletter.
"Starting with the January issue, to shore up their sagging ad pages - 45% year-to-date, they are still going after the woman in her 40s, "but she acts younger and dresses in a youthful way," said editor-in-chief Pamela Fiori.
Inside the magazine, Fiori plans on running more provocative travel pieces (the January issue has a story on Marrakech) and first-person accounts of navigating difficult times in personal and professional relationships. "The magazine is evolving from old money and moving toward new money," said Fiori. "These women are totally unafraid of change and what's coming next. And she's not just a White Anglo Saxon Protestant." On the publishing end, vice president and publisher Jim Taylor said his job as a luxury marketer is to provide "permission" for shoppers to visit a store again and again. "We are inviting our readers to special events, giving them exclusive access to such things as designers, fine wines, personal shoppers and private appointments and jewelry." Or as one of Meg's staffers at the Wooden Horse Magazine News expressed it: "Translation? Younger, sexier models, more sex in the text, and editorial aimed at women in their 40s who are rich enough to act like they are still in their 20s with a trust fund."...
Judith Bright Jewelry (A JRB Network member!) has gotten a great product placement on the hit sitcom "Samantha Who?" where her jewelry will be seen all season.
Judith subscribes to LupRocks.com and that's how she connected with this great placement. The girls at Lup are the best at helping designers get the exposure they deserve in lots of media outlets.
