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    Bloomingdale’s Sale

    Bloomingdale’s is hosting a coupon sale from Friday, Sept 11 until Sunday, Sept. 13. The sales levels are tiered and equate to about 20% off when using your Bloomingdales credit card. The discount ranges are below:

    Spend over $2000 and get $500 off your total purchase.
    Spend $1000 to $1999 and get $250 off your total purchase.
    Spend $500 to $999 and get $250 off your total purchase.
    Spend $250 to $499 and get $50 off your total purchase.
    Spend $100 to $249 and get $25 off your total purchase.

    Remember, tomorrow night is Fashion’s Night Out. There are no delicious discounts but with any purchase you can get a free yogurt from 40 Carrots. Also, if you spend $250 you get access to a Hugo Boss rooftop party.

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    Welcome Back: Fashion’s Night Out

    Welcome back to the real world. It’s the unofficial start of Fall and Thursday starts fashion week. You bet we will be there tracking the clothing and anything inspiring. Before we start deconstructing the fashion let’s first talk a bit about shopping.

    Thursday, September 10th, will mark the first ever Fashion’s Night Out, a global innitiave to promote retail. Retail stores all over the world will stay open late and host special events to lure customers to shop and and spend money. On our home turf, Madison Avenue, many stores will be staying open until after 9pm, passing champaign and trying to attract customers with a range of cool to geeky gimicks.

    Besides for drinks and food we think it will be fun to take advantage meeting many designers and asking, “How does this look?” Don’t necessarily expect to hear the truth, but it wouldn’t be the first time we heard about Donna Karan personally fitting a dress. That type of shopping experiance may be even better than a discount… just, maybe!

    Overall, the festivities at off-Madison stores are a bit more exciting. Matthew Williamson is working with customers to make custom dresses. The Chanel flagship store on 57th street is opening a customized handbag studio where customers are invited to create their very own 2.55 handbag. Anna Wintour will be signing comemritive Fashion’s Night Out tee-shirts at Macy’s in Elmhurst, Queens. Norma Kamali is offering complimentary face and body massages, Facebook fans get 10% off, and there will be a sample sale selection all $100 and under.

    Madison Avenue, however, is where we live and where we will be– despite the fact that the discounts won’t be flowing as freely as the cocktails. Click here to find all the participating retailers and designers. See below to track where we will be shopping Thursday evening:

    Missoni
    1009 Madison Avenue (@78th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Margherita Maccapani Missoni will host a cocktail party at the boutique and invite customers to create their own personalized Missoni tote bags.

    Vera Wang
    991 Madison Avenue (@77th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Brides-to-be will be greeted by Vera Wang and special guests like wedding cake specialist, Sylvia Weinstock, floral expert, Michael George, celebrity Nutritionist, Oz Garcia and beauty consultant, Yves Durif.

    Carolina Herrera
    954 Madison Avenue (@75th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Carolina Herrara and the famous photographer, Larry Fink, will greet customers and invite them into a digital photo booth to “come be art.”

    Cesare Paciotti
    833 Madison Avenue (@ 69th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Cesare Paciotti will unveil the brand’s collaboration with Parsons. Recent grad, Kwame Brako, won a competition allowing his design to be sold as part of the Cesare Paciotti fall collection. You can be sure we’ll be asking Mr. Paciotti how to avoid broken heels.

    Donna Karan
    819 Madison Avenue (@68th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Donna Karen will be in the store for a live performance by famed rockjazz pianist Eric Lewis, aka, Elew.

    Oscar De La Renta
    772 Madison Avenue (@66th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    To celebrate the evening, Mr. De La Renta will host a cocktail party where he will sing and entertain his clients and friends.

    Giorgio Armani
    760 Madison Avenue (@ 66th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    Nora Ephron and Rosie O’donnell will be reading “Love, Loss and What I Wore.” This is in addition to cocktails, of course.

    Paige Gamble
    24 East 64th Street (@ Madison Avenue)
    Main Attraction:
    The Ateliar will be open to 11pm and customers will be treated to sparkling water and champagne.

    Jimmy Choo
    716 Madison Avenue (@63rd)
    Main Attraction:
    A Vogue editor and Jimmy Choo founder and CEO, Tamara Mellon, will be styling a fashion shoot live and also help accessorize and style customer’s fall wardrobes.

    Roberto Cavalli
    711 Madison Avenue (@ 63rd St.)
    Main Attraction:
    The boutique’s 10-year anniversary will be celebrated as Mr. Cavalli personally hosts the evening with archival gowns and signature cocktails.

    Barneys
    660 Madison (@60th St.)
    Main Attraction:
    The store is transforming itself into a street fair of designers and special appearances. Look out for Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen who will be bartending, Alexander Wang will be giving runway lessons, Juan Carlos Obando will be teaching salsa amd Wool and the Gang will be giving knitting lessons, Loomstate will be making tee-shirts and much more.

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    Labor Day Blues Into Fall Hues

    This Summer, we surfed in the Atlantic, danced on tables in Sardinia, and raced cars in Vegas. Not a bad summer. Labor Day, however, is looming and that means back to business. Without even a moment to catch our breaths we are leaping straight into fashion week, the first ever Fashion’s Night Out and a new Madison Avenue Spy column, which will chronical the shopping secrets of Madison Avenue’s most notorious shoppers.

    Before we jump ahead of ourselves, we thought it would be a good time to do a roundup of the best holiday weekend outlet sales. Below is a list of great discounts at Woodbury Commons. Have a wonderful Labor Day and we’ll see you back on Tuesday– the unofficial start to Fall!

    Bottega Veneta:
    All ready-to-wear is an additional 50% to 80% off for the long weekend. Bags are an additional 30% to 50% off. The best deal is the spring/summer ’08 ready-to-wear collection, which is an additional 80% off bringing the total discount to 90% off retail!
    845-928-4563

    Chloe:
    Most merchandise is temporarily discounted an additional 20% off. Bags and shoes are reduced 20% for the weekend, except for classic style bags and Paddingtons. The fall/winter ’08 collection just arrived at the outlet. It is marked 40% off, plus an additional 20%, bring the total discount to about 50% off retail. The largest discount is found in the spring/summer ’08 collection, which is now reduced to 90% off retail. A sales person, however, admitted that there isn’t much left.
    845-928-6260

    Dior:
    The additional markdown is 20% to 40% off. There is very little merchandise from fall ’08 but that’s 75% off retail, plus an additional 40%, brings the total discount to 95% off the original boutique price. Summer ’09 just came to the outlet and is discounted 75%, plus an extra 20%, for a total of 85% full retail.
    845-928-4602

    Prada:
    On Saturday, Prada is rolling out the sample and damaged rack. We are told that it’s clothing currently in boutiques. This is usually “the rack of all sale racks” because the clothing is current and reduced to 90% off. If you happen to fall upon this treasure make sure to budget yourself because the prices and styles can provide to be too tempting for some. Oh, we almost forgot, there will be sample shoes included too!
    845-928-7415

    YSL:
    Handbags are an additional 20% off for the holiday weekend, excluding the Downtown. All ready-to-wear, minus the new shipment of summer ’09, is an additional 40% off. There is a selection of shoes for $199 and some ready-to-wear that’s just $99.
    845-928-2169

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    The Same Game: Hervé Léger

    This weekend, we received a very excited phone call from our dear friend, Kim Chee. She told us how she was out one night and spotted a friend wearing the same Hervé Léger bondage skirt.

    This would normally be unremarkable except that her friend was not wearing the $600 bondage silhouette but rather, gasp, a designer impostor.The doppelganger skirt was not Hervé Léger but rather a $148 BCBG Max Azria skirt. Hervé Léger happens to be designed by Max Azria, as well.

    Could the two skirts really be identical? Well, yes and no. The $600 version has a zipper while the less expensive skirt has an elastic waist band. Even as we are usually sticklers for quality and craftsmanship we would pass on the $452 zipper and in this case hit the local mall for the BCBG version.

    Take a guess which skirt is Hervé Léger. No cheating!

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    Hermes Beverly Hills Markdowns

    This sale brings us a bit more West than usual. The Beverly Hills Hermes is hosting a sale where ready-to-wear, shoes, hats and gloves are 40% to 60% off.

    Bags, you want to know about bags? They are on sale too. No, not Birkins or Kellys, lots of canvas totes and discontinued styles are 40% off. We imagine that the bags on sale are very similar to the merchandise that would be found at an Hermes sample sale.

    Not on the West Coast? Don’t fret, we are told that a similar sale is coming to Madison Avenue in just a few weeks.

    Contact: Momoko 310-278-6440

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    Erickson Beamon @ Showroom Seven and Target

    The very fabulous Guerrilla Shopper NYC reports that Showroom Seven is hosting an Erickson Beamon friends and family sale. Yeah-yeah-yeah… we’re all friends!

    She states, “Prices are up to two thirds off of retail.” In numbers talk, that’s 67% off. If the idea of samples sales and complex math give you a headache you can also check out Target where Erickson Beamon’s pieces are now 50% to 65% off.

    Erickson Beamon @ Showroom Seven
    263 11th Avenue 3rd Floor
    Until Friday, 10am to 7pm.
    Kara 212-643-4810

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    DSW Gucci Sale Continues

    It appears as if the DSW Gucci sale is still going strong. We would have imagined that all the Gucci accessories would be gone. Au contraire, mon amie. A Mad-Spy reader writes that there is a generous selection and then gripes that she paid two times the DSW price for her bag that is still current in Gucci stores.

    Went to the Union Square store today just out of curiosity and they still have a lot left over 2 weeks later. I have to admit that I’m a little more than mad that they have about 8 of one style bag that I have and is still full price at Gucci. The off season stuff whatever but something that is selling in Gucci stores at full price should have never been sent to DSW. It’s not fair to all of us who paid well over $1,000 for a bag that others can not buy for $499.

    Besides reminding us to hit DSW, the comment had us thinking: How do you feel when an item you buy gets reduced or appears at a different location for fractions of what you paid.

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