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Local
· Reiss's expansion plans start with Bloomie's Soho [WWD]
· NYC fave Honor launches e-commerce [Lucky]
· A glimpse of life at the Empire State Building's shoe shine stand [NYT]
National
· Coming in April: H&M's spring 2012 Conscious Collection [Racked National]
· Gwyneth's pre-Oscars routine, revealed [GOOP]
· American Idol launches a retail collection with Kohl's [Vogue UK]
· Bad translating caused that fake Abercrombie site N-word scandal [Gawker]
International
· Chanel reprises their runway airplane for Tokyo exhibit [Grazia]
· Karl Lagerfeld snaps back at Newsweek, call it "shitty" [WWD]