Abbey Lee Kershaw for H&M Divided Fall Preview

For those of you who're fed up with the scorching summer heat and desperately awaiting the fall relief, we've got something for you to cool you down: take a look at H&M's Divided featuring Abbey Lee Kershaw's Fall pre-view. In this collection you'll find a lot of blacks, whites, earth tones and some of the inbetween - including animal prints and plaid.

A majority of these chic pieces are currently available for purchase at your local H&M store and the remaining will hit the shelves this fall. We'd like to know your thoughts on this collection.

When Fashion Takes an Ugly Turn

Ladies, get ready to see the ugly side of fashion. Major retail chains are destroying and trashing perfectly good merchandise rather than donating the much-needed garments to charities. It is an extremely cold winter this year. And while a third of the city is poor, companies like H&M and Wal-Mart are purposely destroying unworn clothing nightly.


“At the back entrance on 35th Street, awaiting trash haulers, were bags of garments that appear to have never been worn. And to make sure that they never would be worn or sold, someone had slashed most of them with box cutters or razors, a familiar sight outside H & M’s back door. The man and woman were there to salvage what had not been destroyed.


A few doors down on 35th Street, hundreds of garments tagged for sale in Wal-Mart — hoodies and T-shirts and pants — were discovered in trash bags the week before Christmas, apparently dumped by a contractor for Wal-Mart that has space on the block.


And to make certain that the garments couldn’t be worn or sold, each piece of clothing had holes punched through it by a machine.


A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Melissa Hill, said the company normally donates all its unworn goods to charities, and would have to investigate why the items found on 35th Street were discarded.


This week, a manager in the H & M store on 34th Street said inquiries about its disposal practices had to be made to its United States headquarters. However, various officials did not respond to 10 inquiries made Tuesday by phone and e-mail.


Directly around the corner from H & M is a big collection point for New York Cares, which conducts an annual coat drive.


“We’d be glad to take unworn coats, and companies often send them to us,” said Colleen Farrell, a spokeswoman for New York Cares.


More than coats were tossed out. “The H & M thing was just ridiculous, not only clothing, but bags and bags of sturdy plastic hangers,” Ms. Magnus said. “I took a dozen of them. A girl can never have enough hangers.””


In a time like this, you’d wonder what the heck were they thinking?! What’s your take on this practice – do you agree or disagree with the intentional destruction of the garments rather than donating them to charity?

Jimmy Choo & H & M Preview

Back in June I reported that fashion designer Jimmy Choo was collaboring with H&M to bring you high end fashion at affordable prices for fall. Here's a sneak peak at what you can expect -- which is nothing short of FIERCE! The collection consists of shoes, bags, accessories for both men and women, and a women’s clothing collection to complement the accessories. The limited edition collection will be available from November 14, 2009 in around 200 H&M stores across the world. Check out the Jimmy Choo for H&M women’s collection preview below:

"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"

Suzanna

Jimmy Choo Brings Glamour To H&M This Autumn

For those of you who've always wanted a pair of Jimmy Choo's but never that the means of doing so, H&M will be granting you the opportunity this fall.

You read it right the first time: Jimmy Choo is H&M's next guest designer to launch a collection of accessories, bags, shoes - for both men and women AND women's clothing! The limited edition collection will be available from November 14, 2009 in around 200 H&M stores across the world.

"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"

- Suzanna