The Fresh Prince of the Bowery; Naomi Campbell Doesn't Do Stairs

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Local
· New streetwear boutique The Fresh Prince opens on...Prince [Bowery Boogie]
· Ill-fated Smith Street space to become a stationery store [Brooklyn Paper]

National
· The Miss America Pageant licenses a line of children's clothes [WWD]
· Science determines bad hair days damage self-esteem [Stylelist]
· Naomi Campbell refuses to walk up stairs [NYP]

International
· Why are Brazil's models always blond? Creepy genetic research! [NYT]