November 02, 2009
Nintendo is embracing its inner fashion know-how and launching Style Savvy, a game where players act as shopkeepers, running virtual boutiques and addressing issues from what stock to carry to customer service. In total, Style Savvy features "16 lines with over 10,000 items to stock your store with. And even the customers have different personalities, so you need to treat each one individually in order to get them to come back," says Fashionista. Do so successfully (e.g. sell the fashions you've selected) and you win points that add up to eventually conquer the game. It's sort of like that summer job at Banana Republic, only without the class rage.


Eighties and nineties references aren’t the only retro influences surfacing in fashion these days. The Gap is looking to relive 1969 with its relaunch of the brand’s iconic 1969 collection. Meaning, “come August, the Gap customer will have access to perfectly faded boyfriend jeans, rinse-wash skinnies, vintage-inspired bell-bottoms, and an elegant extra-long boot-cut -- all in premium denim fits,”