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DKNY JEANS
The New York brand opens a flagship store on Londons New Bond Street DKNY Jeans, one of the Big Apples best-loved fashion brands, is now available to buy in the Big Smoke with a new flagship store on New Bond Street. Proof if it were needed of Londons prominence on the international fashion map, the 4,400-square-foot retail space takes New Yorks gallery as its inspiration. Customers are greeted by striking black-and-white graphics with judicious read: widespread use of DKNY Jeans signature taxicab yellow, with hanging rails suspended from the ceilings to showcase the collection. With the flagship New Bond Street branch the latest in a veritable fleet of standalone stores around the country, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Londons Brompton Road, its practically an invasion albeit a very stylish one. ...

LEVI'S PRODUCT WITH ROOTS
The original jeans brand celebrates its heritage with a ew vintage range As founder Mr Strauss is oft credited with inventing jeans and filed a patent on using rivets back in 1873, Levis is a brand with more authentic roots than most. Now the company is celebrating its heritage with the Levis Product With Roots range, which takes its inspiration from the Levis Vintage line that denim obsessives so love. The new collection sees the return of the zip-fly 505, which launched in 1967 and quickly became de rigeur on the New York rock oll scene - the Snuff Out wash even features a snuff box pocket in homage to the hedonistic Sixties youths how times have changed. Modern-day trendies, meanwhile, will doubtless welcome the return of the 1947 501 Shrink-To-Fit jean, enabling them to achieve genuine circulation-cutting tightness. Other highlights include the fleece-lined Sherpa denim jacket and complementing Western-style check shirts. Wannabe cowboys can mosey on down to Levis stores, ...

How to Have a 1-Night Stand
Heres what I remember about the best one-night stand of my life: everything but his name. He was a bartender-slash-actor who rode a beat-up motorcycle, but I didn find that out until after his jeans came off. It started in a bar. He sat down next to my girlfriend and me -- we were having a giggly girls night out -- stared in the other direction, and didn say a word. After 10 minutes, he asked if I would watch his stuff while he went outside to make a call. When he came back, he grimaced like De Niro and thanked me very politely. By that point, I was already curious about whom he had called, what was in his faded leather bag, and why he wouldn smile. So I asked if he was having a bad day. Within a couple of hours, we were naked in bed together. And then he was gone. To this day, I have to admire how smooth he was, because great one-night stands are tough to pull off. Plenty can go wrong between the first long look and the next-day e-mail. This is what you need to know to do ...