Mondays give us a chance to review highlights from the past week. After our story on Amazon and its burgeoning impact on the fashion industry, Quartz, the news summary site, announced that the top product searched for and bought online in 2015 was clothing, outpacing computers by a wide margin. The report has no hard data on why but one possibility is, in our mobile phone compulsive culture, boredom may play a factor. So what else can we do with an extra two or three minutes of down time? Shop for clothes of course!
This, and the story on Amazon’s massive investment in its own fashion label, will have a monumental impact on shopping malls and fashion franchises. Imagine if you were a real estate developer. How can we repurpose millions of square feet of malls and parking lots around the country – interesting challenge but a real possibility:
http://qz.com/653001/clothes-are-now-the-top-selling-category-online-in-the-us/?utm_
We loved the buzz about 92-year old Gloria Vanderbilt and her new book, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes”, and the upcoming documentary, “Nothing Left Unsaid”, premiering April 9th.
Her history of “poor little rich girl” has more than a tinge of sadness and loss, although what we also remember about her 
was her name on jeans in the 70’s. The brand was Murjani and she certainly got the skinny jean way before skinny was in.
Like many things, the brand has been sold but her name lingers on and you can buy her jeans for around $20 at JC Penny or Amazon. To her credit and we take note, she is still elegant and reminds us that, like Anna Wintour, sticking with one haircut can make you seem eternal. More importantly, she is living proof that life should be treated like an adventure and it can change in a blink of an eye. Her optimism and spirit are to be admired. We should all mimic her joy of life:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/fashion/anderson-cooper-gloria-vanderbilt.html?
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