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Fashion giant Coach is fed up with the amount of handbag knock-offs for sale at Fort Lauderdale’s Swap Shop, the Sun Sentinel reports.On Friday, Coach filed a lawsuit against the corporation that owns the Swap Shop after a year of warnings and letters from the brand’s lawyers. In November, an investigator from the company visited the market and discovered a lucrative counterfeit market of their handbags.The suit is also against Preston Henn, who opened the Swap Shop in 1963 and now owns the land. Henn told the Sun Sentinel that there’s no way he could monitor what the thousands of vendors are selling every day, including knock-off Coach merchandise.

The Swap Shop is a South Florida staple, where anyone can pay for a table and sell goods from pig snouts to perfumes to DVDs. It’s Florida’s second-most popular tourist attraction after Disney World.However, the Swap Shop is also popular with law enforcement. This past December, the market was a part of a six-week raid by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) looking for counterfeit goods. The raid was conducted in cities across the United States, Mexico, and in Seoul, South Korea.In 2007, counterfeiting cost Americans more than 750,000 jobs, according to UL, an agency that promotes ethics in the corporate market.

Coach has been aggressive in its efforts to target counterfeiting since the company’s introduction of Operation Turnlock in 2009.On Coach’s website, customers can read its “counterfeit education” page to learn about the company’s market practices and numbers to call to report counterfeits.Ever since Operation Turnlock began three years ago, Coach has been racking in the lawsuits.Last week, Coach went after a Tennessee hair salon for selling counterfeit products, demanding $2 million for each counterfeit or to be reimbursed for the profits.The designer brand also sued a St. Louis flea market for selling counterfeits, as well as an Austin shoe store for selling two pairs of fake boots.

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Bergner’s department store is encouraging shoppers to donate used clothing and household textile items for Goodwill Industries Inc. by offering up to 20 percent shopping discounts from Wednesday, March 7 through Thursday, March 22.Bon-Ton Stores Inc., which includes Bergner’s, partners each year with Goodwill Industries, a nonprofit organization that provides jobs training and placement services for people with barriers to achieve meaningful employment.

Donations will be sold at Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois stores, including the Rockford store, and the sales revenue will go to the nonprofit organization.Used clothing and household textile donations can be made before shopping at Bergner’s. For each item donated, shoppers will receive a 20 percent discount coupon for clothing, shoes and handbags. The store will offer 15 percent discount coupons for cosmetics and fragrances.

Mugabe approved the use of his signature for the label although the designers did not meet him in person. Matenda said that Mugabe told them the signature was his but it belonged to the people.The clothing line is the latest in a list of items designed to honour a man idolised by his supporters as a liberation hero and reviled by his foes for his tainted human rights record.In addition to generations of campaign cloth, state radio and television allocate generous airplay to musicians who sing praises for the man who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.

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How many times have you found yourself retaking photos because of poor focus?  How often have you missed the perfect moment to capture a photo because it took too long for your camera to take the picture?A camera with a revolutionary new technology called “light field” photography aims to change all that and it accomplishes the task quite well, according to Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Columnist Walt Mossberg.At first glance, the $399 Lytro looks more like a small telescope than a digital camera, Mossberg said in his weekly All Things Digital segment on FOX Business.

The 7.5-ounce camera has a large, wide-open lens that remains open, even while zooming (it features 8X optical zoom).  On the other end, it has a touch screen with relatively few commands and icons to keep it uncomplicated.  And it only has three buttons on its body: the power, the shutter, and a slider zoom control, he said.So what makes this odd-looking device so special?  According to Mossberg, photos from the camera can be focused and refocused in any way you like after being taken, even years later.  Say you take a picture of your dog sitting in the backyard at sunset, and you focus on the dog.

Later you think to yourself that while your furry pet is indeed quite handsome looking, the sunset is what was truly breathtaking in that snapshot.  No problem, just change the photo’s focus to the sun descending in the background.The Lytro makes this possible using light-field technology that came out of research from Stanford University.  “It takes in a lot more information about what’s hitting the lens than a typical camera does, including the direction of the light rays.In fact, they actually quantify this camera not in terms of megapixels, but in terms of light rays.  They say they can capture 11 million light rays,” Mossberg explained.

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British fashion designer John Galliano has already proved that the fashion world can make headlines beyond its usual territory. The publication of Galliano’s anti-Semitic outburst in Paris bar last year led to his being dismissed from his leadership of two fashion houses, Dior and his own name brand. Even before that, when he designed a homeless-inspired haute couture collection for Dior in spring 2000 – his attempt to put a glowing and enticing aesthetic face on poverty – he drew sharp public criticism. That episode ended quickly, with a public apology from Galliano.

So, clothes can create headlines. But what about the opposite case? Can newspaper headlines create clothes? Fashion and accessories collection designed by students of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design from old Haaretz newspapers deals with that very question. The fourth-year students have created a wardrobe rich in newsprint pages, including fancy evening gowns, jeans and T-shirt combinations, jackets, coats, and complementary accessories such as shoes and jewelry. There’s even underwear. The results will be on display tomorrow, until March 14, at Tel Aviv’s G complex.

The products are amazingly realistic. A pair of jeans, for example, looks as if it were cut from thick denim. Similarly, a blue jacket looks like the real thing, a gold-colored vest features what looks like detailed stitching, and delicate pieces of “lace” on lingerie items turn out on closer inspection to be thin, curled strips of paper.A long trench coat, by the student duo of Dafna Philosoph and Rotem Mitz, was fashioned in the style of Burberry. The students copied the trademark checked pattern of the British fashion house by arranging rectangular strips of paper they had cut out from the newspaper’s opinion pages. Some were dipped in tea to create the right hue. This is without a doubt one of the outstanding pieces of the collection.

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Rock legends Chicago and The Doobie Brothers will share the stage this summer for an evening of classic rock hits spanning both artists’ extensive repertoire of chart topping and award winning hits. Doubling the value for fans this summer, both bands will co-headline the 21 date U.S.tour kicking off on July 11th in Tuscon, AZ at the Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre with confirmed dates through August 24th at the Toyota Pavilion in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Each band will perform individual sets, playing their biggest hits, and then both Chicago and The Doobie Brothers will join together for a thrilling grand finale encore, playing each other’s songs at the end of each of these summer shows.

Chicago, the legendary band with horns, and the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s list of Top 100 artists of all time, will once again allow a winning bidder to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing the band’s classic hit song, “If You Leave Me Now” onstage with Chicago at every concert. This is the third consecutive year that Chicago has teamed up with the American Cancer Society to create “Sing With Chicago,” a highly successful promotion that has raised over $130,000 to fight breast cancer. Fans in every market will be able to bid on a package that includes a meet and greet with the band, two premium tickets and a chance to sing onstage in concert with the band.

Previous year’s winners were so moved by the experience that they launched the Facebook group, “I Sang With Chicago,” where they shared stories about their experiences and videos of themselves onstage singing with the band. Each winner has an incredible story to tell. As was done last year, the money raised this year is in honor of Chicago’s friend Paqui Kelly, the wife of Notre Dame’s head football coach Brian Kelly, who is a breast cancer survivor. Chicago has generously supported other charitable causes in the past, including the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation and Hannah & Friends, started by Maura Weis and her husband, Charlie Weis, the current coach at the University of Kansas.

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Republicans have President Obama on the run. He has had to disguise himself and his stupid policies again — this time by donning the political garb of his arch rival. President Barack Obama looks pretty nice in Sarah Palin’s dress. And by dress, I mean her energy policy. He is now mouthing the very words he mocked 4 years ago when he said we don’t need to drill for oil. In 2008, Candidate Obama preached that if everyone just needs to check the air pressure in their tires, we’ll be fine.

Am I the only one who wonders what could possibly be the agenda of any politician who would thwart our drive toward energy independence? Continuing to lock up America’s domestic energy reserves, including the energy-rich Last Frontier of Alaska, only equips dangerous foreign regimes as they fund terrorist organizations to harm us and our allies. I’m going to keep speaking and writing about this in the simplest of terms until someone can provide a simple answer as to why liberal Democrats don’t understand that we have safe, warehoused onshore and shallow water reserves waiting for permission to be extracted.

They either choose not to understand the geology, science, and technology behind an all-of-the-above approach to energy security, or they understand it, yet for whatever frightening reason choose to be lap dogs to Chavez and Ahmadinejad.Now, we absolutely need safe, responsible oil production here in America.  That’s why under my Administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years.  In 2010, our dependence on foreign oil was under 50% for the first time in more than a decade.And while there are no short-term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices, I’ve directed my administration to look for every single area where we can make an impact and help consumers in the months ahead, from permitting to delivery bottlenecks to what’s going on in the oil markets.

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Recently, the issue of whether mainland citizens should be allowed to drive to Hong Kong under the trial scheme on one-off ad hoc quotas for Guangdong/Hong Kong cross-boundary private cars (Self-drive Tour Scheme) has aroused much contention in Hong Kong. A lot of members of the public have voiced their opposition on the Internet, and the organisation of a march in protest of the Scheme is brewing. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council.The number of vehicles that have obtained approval for regular quotas (commonly known as “cross-boundary vehicle licences”) and are running in Hong Kong at present; among those vehicles, the respective numbers of those that are registered in Hong Kong and on the Mainland; whether they are required to meet certain technical specifications.

If so, of the details; of the channels for submitting applications for “cross-boundary vehicle licences” for vehicles not registered in Hong Kong, not imported through manufacturers or importers, as well as for those vehicles registered in overseas countries and were used outside Hong Kong (e.g. in Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe); whether there is any difference between the vetting criteria for such applications and those for ordinary applications; if so, of the details; whether it knows which mainland or Hong Kong government departments or authorities accept applications for “cross-boundary vehicle licences”, and which mainland or Hong Kong government departments or authorities have the authority to issue such licences.

Of the eligibility criteria for applying for “cross-boundary vehicle licences”, and the application fees before deciding to implement the policy on allowing mainland citizens to drive to Hong Kong under the Self-drive Tour Scheme, whether it had estimated the number of mainland citizens driving to Hong Kong each year after the implementation of the policy; further, whether it had assessed if public consultation would be needed; if it had, of the result of the assessment, and if the assessment result was in the affirmative, whether it had conducted consultation; if no assessment had been made, whether it can immediately conduct such an assessment.

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He is always looking forward to what his next task is in class, what his next assignment is for those classes and what he has to do next to make sure he will graduate from Iowa State. Warner also is concentrating on his track-and-field career competing as a sprinter for the Cyclones.Warner also keeps his schedule busy by doing something most other students, or student-athletes for that matter, don’t do. He manages and writes for a website he and his older brother, Justyn, created called “Cover Ground” and subsequently started a clothing company called “Parilexx.”

The idea for Cover Ground was formed in 2009 when Justyn was a senior competing in track and field at Texas Christian University and while Ian was an ISU freshman. Justyn had the idea of creating a blog about his training schedule and posting it on the Internet, and Ian came back with an idea taking Justyn’s blog one step further.”I suggested to him that we try and use it to take what we are learning in our journeys and try to help other people to make their journeys easier,” Ian said. “So I was the one who transformed it into a blog about helping others, but he was the one who got the domain name, started it and did the first posts. But he eventually asked me to write for it.”

Traffic for Cover Ground was initially slow. At one point, Ian and Justyn didn’t know if they should even continue operating the website because they thought, “No one really cares about it and no one’s really reading it.”They decided to continue their efforts, though. The first summer after they started the site, Ian went home to Markham, Ontario, and posted on Cover Ground’s website “literally every single day for three months.”"Every day we posted and it really started to generate a lot of traffic and people really started to like it,” Ian said. “Facebook and Twitter really helped a lot with it, so we really used those to start getting it out there, and it just kept going and now it can’t stop.”

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Louisiana Tech’s Museum of Fashion and Textiles just became a bit more colorful.Dorothy Williams, a Monroe resident, has donated four pieces of wearable art she created throughout the years. The clothing pieces have been appraised at $5,500 for one piece and $11,000 for the other three.The four pieces include her “Picasso,” based on the artist’s “Girl Before a Mirror;” “Diamonds R Back,” a baseball-themed ensemble; “Dinosaurs,” which includes the names of some of the dinosaurs; and “Voice of the Flowers,” which includes 40 colors of silk.”

“This one will always tug at my heart,” she said.”Diamonds R Back” includes 64 cheering fans, whose faces were hand-embroidered and their bodies were appliqued. It took 350 hours to create.”I put my quilting friends from Florida in there,” Williams said. “It was quite an undertaking, but it took the least amount of time.”The inspiration for “Dinosaurs” came from a random encounter with a child at a bakery, she said.”I was at the bakery, and this little boy was with his mother,” Williams said. “He had a dinosaur book that said paleontologists now thought dinosaurs were colorful. So I made my dinosaurs colorful.”

Linda Sivils, the museum’s curator, said Williams’ pieces would be studied in a fashion and design class this spring.”She’s very creative and very artistic,” Sivils said. “She’s done a lot of things besides garments, and she hand-makes everything herself. They are more of pieces of art than fashion. They’re really quite interesting.”I really felt they needed to be donated to an established museum, where they wouldn’t be tossed,” Williams said. “I’m a 1953 graduate, so I felt that Tech was the place.”She said “Picasso,” which she started in May 1998 and finished in January 1999, was her favorite piece.

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