Nautica Women's Wear is KICKED to the curb.

Nautica Women's Wear no longer exists as of TODAY. So, take as much in as you can while it lasts ladies.

VF Corp, which owns Nautica and John Varvatos, increased by 7.7 percent, which meant $149 million in earnings as of March 31st. Nautica Women's Wear has declined 11 percent this past quarter though, which was the reason why they kicked the line towards the exit door. This breaking news has been made official ladies and gents. You can go ahead and use my boxes of Kleenex on my desk if you run out.

But really... who ever even wore Nautica stuff past the year 2000, during the mega boom of American sportswear designers? Maybe if I got it on sale for 75% off and I needed another navy and white stripped hoodie... maybe then I would. Besides that, VF Corp didn't get any of my earnings.

covers of magazines... airbrushed?!

Really... like we didn't know that every single magazine in the world was properly airbrushed or digitally altered... but I guess it's all the young impressionable minds that don't know.

According to WWD, The British Fashion Council says that airbrushing "images play in perpetuating an "unachievable aesthetic," digitally enhanced images." They started to question this in December. The Periodical Publishers Association is going to have a meeting with BFC to work on the issue, but no date has been set in stone yet. "No guidelines have been drawn up governing the magazines' use of airbrushing... rather than limiting magazines' use of digital manipulation, publications could instead be asked to declare if an image had been altered... [by] declar[ing] if an image had been altered."

BFC already had a Model Health Inquiry during fashion week last season, when a model died from starving herself. Is it going to make a difference? Maybe... but even photos on Myspace are altered to look better in order to get more hits and "friends" on their list. Do people just need to be reminded of that? Even the cover of British Vogue this month (above) has Victoria Beckham that has had plastic surgery to enhance her looks. The rest of the celebrity machine does it too... some just hide it better than others.

So, does it matter? Or does the world want to see what it looks like to be flawless, even though there's digital altering?

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