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    Weekend Shopping: Sample Sales, Uniqlo and Rag & Bone

    Chilly April showers really don’t help Spring feel like Spring. We might have to settle with shopping for Spring until those grey rain clouds part and May flowers bloom. This weekend, there are a few noteworthy shopping destinations. See below for details.

    Maiyet and DL& Co Sample Sale
    Maiyet, which is basically a curator of goods from international artisans has discounted much of their collection to about 80% off. The brand’s popular bags range in price from $150 to $250 from retail prices that go from about $1000 to $2000. During the preview, the bags were the biggest hit and we would be surprised if there are any still left over. Instead direct your attention towards the shoes and jackets. Sandals are priced at $100, shoes are $200 and boots are $250.

    The other, more aromatic, part of this sample sale duo is DL & Co. The candle company is best known for their skull candles and colorful crystal scalloped glass candles. They have long been a favorite of ours. Prices range from $10 to $25. We suggest waiting until Sunday to snag the best deals on candles. If you don’t make it, keep an eye open at Homegoods and TJ Maxx where DL & Co. items are usually priced about the same as this sale.
    Through Sunday, April 10
    Fri & Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-5pm
    150 Greene Street


    Uniqlo
    It’s no secret that we are huge Uniqlo fans. It’s our first and last stop for basics for the entire family and it’s a really fun store to shop. Through the weekend, the Japanese mega-store is hosting an anniversary sale with lots of crazy inexpensive prices. Ultra Stretch Jeans, which are really just skinny jeans are $40 from $50, women’s pajamas are $15 from $30 and cotton-cashmere blend sweaters are $15 from $30 too. While you’re shopping be sure to check out the store’s basic tees that are just $10, the famous Ultra Light Down jackets that come in 12 colors and Liberty of London prints, which we like best for little kids.

    Rag & Bone Private Sale

    You can save 25% off nearly everything at Rag & Bone through the weekend TK. Use the code PRIVATE25 when checking out. Usually we associate Rag & Bone with jeans but this season they have a great collection of fashionable items. Some favorites include, this mesh shirt, this perforated dress and this perforated bag. (It appears I have a fixation with anything holy)

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    Friends & Family Sales: Tamara Mellon, Sandro, Maje & Beauty

    This week is turning out to be very friendly. We’ve already detailed the goings on at Bloomingdales and Shopbop but there are lots of other sales to shop with friends.

    Tamara Mellon, Sandro, Maje, Bobbi Brown and Perricone are all hosting friends and family sales where you can save. Details for each brand are below:

    Tamara Mellon
    It doesn’t look like things are going so well for the ex-Jimmy Choo designer. Tamara Mellon is now hosting a ‘VIP’ sale where most everything is 50% off, which brings the discount to 80% on some merchandise. The only exception seems to be items that are already marked 80% off.  Just use the code TMVIPSALE50 at checkout. These Goddess sandals are $400 from $800 and over-the-knee suede boots come down to $450 from $2200 and this sandal comes to just $125 from $625. There are clothing options too. Here’s a jumpsuit that’s $200 from $1000 and a leather jacket that is only $215 from $1450. (You shouldn’t pass on that jacket!) We’re having Reed Krakoff flashbacks.

    Maje & Sandro
    It’s hard not to bundle these sister brands together. Right now, both fashion lines are offering a friends and family promotion of 25% off. You can use the code FF25 on both sites to prompt the discount. Maje’s denim romper comes to $225 from $300 and a Sandro lace top comes to $243 from $325.

    Perricone MD
    You can now get your derm on. Perricone MD’s friends and family sale runs only through Wednesday. You can use the code FRIENDS16 at checkout to save 20%. Fan favorites include the No Blush Blush, Cold Plasma and Face Finishing Moisturizer.

    Bobbi Brown 
    You can save 20% off when you shop Bobbi Brown’s friends and family sale online. The promotion runs through Saturday and no code is necessary. Some of the most popular products are Shimmer Brick compact, Foundation Stick and Smokey Eye mascara.

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    ShopBop Friends & Family 25% Off

    The hugely popular Shopbop friends and family sale kicked off today. Shoppers can use the code INTHEFAM and save an additional 25% off most items on the site. Of course, there are designer exclusions. Shopbop’s list isn’t usually very bad but it seems to be blossoming. You can click here to see the full list of what items to avoid.

    The best part of this sale is that you can apply the discount to previously reduced merchandise. For this reason, we always like to start our browsing in the sale section. This Preen print dress comes to $753 from $3350, this Rodarte fleece hoodie is $79 from $265 and a Phillip Lim dress is $350 from $900.

    Another option is to always use the savings to get a jump ahead of the trends. Take espadrilles as an example: Here’s a Kenzo pair with a tiger, Mochino’s version are perforated, a beaded version from Zanotti, Chiara Ferragni’s eyelash embellished version and of course, a kitten version from Charlotte Olympia. (Despite the exclusion list all the designer brands were discounted in the shopping cart.) Were you thinking of festival-wear? Of course you were. Try this Free People stripped dress, a Kate Spade raffia hat with raw edges, or a pretty perfect Black Denim jean jacket.

    Remember, the trendiest of items go fast at this sale. Better to snatch them up now than to wait until the sale ends on Thursday. Get shopping!

    Brand Exclusions Include: The following brands are excluded from the offer: Acne Studios, Aquazzura, Alexander Wang, Edie Parker, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gareth Pugh, Giambattista Valli, Hanky Panky, Herve Leger, Jason Wu, Jennifer Meyer, Jonathan Simkhai, Kate Spade New York, Katie May, Maison Margiela, MCM, Marc Jacobs, Monique Lhuillier, Nina Ricci, Narciso Rodriguez, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini , 3.1 Phillip Lim, Prabal Gurung, Rodarte, Rochas, Rick Owens DRKSHDW, Rick Owens Lilies, Stella McCartney, Stuart Weitzman, SUNO, Tory Burch, Versace, Canada Goose, Herschel Supply Co., Hunter Boots, Marni, Rag & Bone, Tumi, and What Goes Around Comes Around. East Dane: The following brands are excluded from the offer: Ami, A.P.C., Alexander Wang, Canada Goose, Calvin Klein Collection, Filson, Herschel Supply Co., Hunter Boots, Marni, Rag & Bone, To Boot New York, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Tumi, WANT LES ESSENTIELS, What Goes Around Comes Around, and Wolverine 1000 Mile. * Other items excluded from the promotion will have language stating “Shopbop Style,” “East Dane Essential,” and/or “this item is excluded from the current promotion.” These items are excluded on their product information pages. Such items do not qualify, regardless of the nature of the item..

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    Scoop: Shop, Save & Give

    Scoop has partnered with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital for an amazing shopping promotion. From now until April 16 you can save 25% off your purchase in stores and online. What’s even better is that Scoop will also donate 5% of all purchases to the world’s leading children’s hospital.

    The discount is automatically applied at checkout. We were super surprised that we didn’t find any items online that were excluded from the promotion– that includes Missoni, Stuart Weitzman and even Tom Ford sunglasses. The discount even works on items already marked down. For instance, this white Carven sweatshirt that comes to $150 from $490.

    We suggest you use this sale as a great opportunity to stock up on your Spring fashion needs. Some of our favorite items to transition to warmer weather are this white Veronica Beard blazer with a stripped dicky, a frayed denim top from IRO and this Sonia Rykiel rainbow tweed jacket.

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    The IT-It: Fishnet Clothing

    In fashion, even trends come in their own distinct subsets. There are mainstream trends that blanket women’s fashion, like skinny jeans or bucket bags. Then there are micro trends that percolate in small batches among stylists and editorial directors.

    Photo credit: Tom & Lorenzo

    Fishnet clothing would fall into the category of a micro trend. They evoke a combination of beach, sea and sports and are perfect for straddling the Spring to Summer transition. It’s open enough to show the optimism of Summer but is covered enough not to feel naked. Most recently, Allison Williams wore a Derek Lam fishnet dress on Jimmy Fallon and this Rag & Bone mesh shirt has been all over style blogger feeds. (It’s regularly paired with white bell bottom jeans and a micro cross body bag.)

    This holier than thou fashion trend has found it’s way from the top to the bottom of categories. This way to fishnet sportswear from Moschino, here are fishnet Christian Louboutin shoes and Atlas has a laser-cut dress that resembles fish scales. Scroll below to see more options from our favorite micro trend.

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    Bloomingdales Friends & Family

    Pre-sale for the upcoming Bloomingdales friends and family has begun. The sale officially begins on Monday but those in the know can start pre-saling their purchases in the store now. The discount is 25% off fashion and home and 20% off jewelry. Online shoppers can use the code FRIENDS.

    In the past, the exclusions haven’t been too extensive. Designer collections, beauty and fragrance are never included in the promotion. Although the discount can’t be applied to beauty purchases there is usually a gift with purchase incentive.

    If you’re interested in buying designer merchandise, including Chanel, we suggest you take advantage of Bloomingdale’s power points. For the term of friends and family you can earn $25 Power Points for every $100 you spend. That means that if you purchase a $2000 Prada boots, you will receive a $500 gift card that can be applied in 60-days to anything in the store. To get your Power Points you must be a loyalist but that really means just signing up for a bonus card.

    We admit that Bloomingdales can sometimes be a nightmare to shop –too much merchandise, too many promotion exclusions, conflicting incentives. Friends have had lots of luck taking advantage of in-store pickup. On product pages you can sort according to “In-Store Pickup” and all your purchases will be pulled and waiting for you at the customer service department on the 3rd floor. Once you get there, you can try everything on and just take the items you like.

    The friends and family promotion runs through Sunday, April 10 and the discount can also be applied to sale items. This striped Milly trapeze dress will come to $350 from $800, a Vince cotton mesh dress will be about $225 from $400 and Rebecca Minkoff dress with fringe will be $175 from $300.

    Azhar 4th Floor Shoes 206-790-5910 (text only)

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    Kanye’s Yeeze Now 50% Off

    Kanye West’s Yeezy line is known for causing a retail frenzy. Just like every other designer, however, Kanye’s line isn’t impervious to the gravity of markdowns. It’s not hard to imagine considering sweatpants were priced at $300 and jackets were over $3,000.

    While innocently browsing– as we often tend to do– we found an assorted selection of Yeezy merchandise that’s discounted 50%. Over here, at Matches, a woman’s ribbed wool sweater is $622 to from $1381 and an oversized shearling coat is about $2000 from $4040. Luisaviaroma also has a handful of items discounted 45% off after all extra promotions are tallied.

    Forward by Elyse Walker, also has a selection that 30% off. This hoodiea is now $312 from $600, a sports bra is $72 from $155 and this trench is $1400 from $2860.

    Is this fashion? Who is to say? One thing is for sure many ‘real’ fashion designers would be thrilled to post numbers like Kanye’s. (Even if he is $15 million in debt.)

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    Proenza Schouler Bags 50% Off

    This isn’t the easiest time of year to find good markdowns. If you’re feeling the urge to buy a new Spring bag we suggest you head over to Proenza Schouler. The designer’s online store is offering shoppers a 50% savings on select bags. The discount is also available online here.

    We found a cheery raspberry suede PS1 for about $900 from almost $1800, a nude version with fringe is $950 from $1900 and a black bucket back lined with ultra-blue is $700 from $1400. The assortment also includes wallets and courier style bags.

    We admit, the assortment isn’t large but it’s better to give way to temptation with a good markdown than pay full price. To some, present company included, May (i.e. sale time) can’t come quickly enough.

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