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Born on June 5:

Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer; 1898
Zuzu Angel, Brazilian-American fashion designer; 1921
Ellen Foley, American singer and style icon; 1951
Mark Wahlberg, American actor, rapper and model; 1971

HB, friendly! It would be so easy to say that just because you share a birthday with Salvatore Ferragamo, you have an unnatural fondness for shoes. Easy, but also absolutely correct. Do me a favor and look down at your feet. It’s time to replace those shoes. Get up this instant and go buy a pair in a style you’ve never worn before. If you’re not wearing shoes, paint your toenails in a new shade. If you’re currently getting a pedicure and admiring newly purchased shoes, go buy some funky flavor of yogurt. Do you see what I’m saying? To get things going this year, you need to jump start everything with one single change.

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Born on June 4:

Carlota Alfaro, Puerto Rican couturier; 1933
Richard Caring, fashion investor; 1948
Italo Zucchelli, menswear design director for Calvin Klein; 1965
Bar Refaeli, Israeli model; 1985
Tori Praver, American model; 1986

Hey, hey, June fourth baby! It’s going to be hard for anybody to pin you down this next year. You’re going to be happily moving and grooving and making detours, like a plastic bag on a windy street. OK, being a plastic bag isn’t such a great image, but film that bag in black and white, put it to nice music, and “Hello, Art.” It’s going to be fun, but promise me that in this year of second- and third-guessing that you’ll find something to keep you rooted. Your fellow birthdayer Italo Zucchelli said, “I like a minimalist apartment, but too much nothingness and you start to worry about the person who lives there.” Italo suggests buying a plant, but I think you’ll be fine getting aquainted with anything or anybody that you know isn’t going anywhere.

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The word “Puritan” doesn’t exactly evoke youthfulness and fun. But on June 4, 1965, it was none other than the Puritan Fashion Corporation, a very-large-yet-somewhat-stodgy dressmaking company Read More »

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Born on June 3:

Carmen Dell’Orefice, American unstoppable model; 1931
Susannah Constantine, British TV host; 1962

It’s your big day! Sharing your day is Susannah Constantine, one of the hosts of the BBC’s What Not to Wear. I’m sure you’ve seen the show or shows like it, where hosts dissect the closets of the bewildered with all the delicacy and compassion of dueling chainsaws. Like Susannah, I know that you’re the type of person who always has the perfect advice for everybody around you. Well, this year, keep it to yourself. No, I don’t mean that in a snotty way. I’m simply saying that you should guard some of those valuable insights that are about to fall off the end of your tongue. I mean, you can tell a friend if they’re about to get run over by a bus, but save the good stuff for your vlog.

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On June 3, 1900, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union was founded.

If you were a teenage immigrant in New York in the early 1900s, you might have worked in a dress shop. And if you worked in a dress shop, you would have worked nine-hour days, Read More »