Forever 21 More Popular Than Lady Liberty; Couture Fairy Tale

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Local
· The J. Crew sale is like retail Groundhog's Day, sans good deals [Sample Sally]
· Forever 21 gets 80K+ more tourist visits than the Statue of Liberty [WSJ]

National
· Britney Spears hits us with her designs for Candie's [WWD, subscription req'd]
· Beaten down in the eReader price war, Barnes & Noble posts 4Q loss [NYP]
· Hello Kitty loves Stüssy with this second 30th anniversary collab [Hypebeast]

International
· Gaultier, Westwood and more collab on Snow White and the Seven Designers [London Evening Standard]