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Shelli Segal, the Los Angeles contemporary sportswear designer who was behind such labels as Laundry by Shelli Segal and Bailey 44, died Feb. 3 at her Los Angeles home. She was 65.
The cause of death was uterine cancer, which she had been fighting for 10 years, said her husband Moshé Elimelech.
Segal was born in Dallas in 1964 and was the daughter of Jerry, a comedy writer, producer and author, and Ann, a comedic actress. Her family eventually relocated to New York City, where Segal graduated from Manhattan’s High School of Music and Art and won an art scholarship to the State University of New York at Purchase. She also attended the Mayer School of Fashion Design.
Segal pursued a career as a painter before entering fashion, but moved into fashion when she severed her left index finger in an art project accident involving a circular saw. After that accident, she dropped out of SUNY Purchase.
“I suddenly felt a sense of immediacy about things, and since I was interested in fashion, I figured that if I wanted to do it, I should go for it,” Segal told WWD in 1998.
Her mother, Ann Benson Segal, said Segal started drawing when she was a

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ESTERO, Fla. — Bra fittings are complicated. 
That’s because women’s breasts are all different. Add to the noise the many measuring options — in-store, online apps and video conferencing, to name a few — and it’s enough to confuse most shoppers. 
But Soma, the intimate apparel brand owned by Chico’s FAS, says it has the solution: a “smart bra” called the SomaInnofit bra. 
Users slip on the garment, which looks much like a sports bra with a computerized chip in the back. Within seconds, the bra measures the woman’s circumference and cup size using four lines of wire stitching that circle the body. No measuring tapes or awkward dressing room encounters required. 

Inside the Soma store in Estero, Fla. 
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The results are connected to the in-store associate’s iPad via Bluetooth. They are then able to recommend an assortment of products for the individual. The device usually retails for $69.99 but is currently marked down to $25.

“Nothing beats an in-store bra fitting,” Mary van Praag, president of Chico’s FAS’s intimates business, told WWD. “It’s not just a size, it’s a personal experience. Women feel good about it and they find their best fit.”
On a recent trip to Florida, WWD stopped by the Estero, Fla.,

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NEW YORK — The talk turned to unmentionables earlier this week at Manhattan’s Cipriani 42. 
Names such as Soma, Wacoal, Komar, Commando and Journelle were part of the conversation. So was Walmart, Smart & Sexy Lingerie, trade show organizer Eurovet, a handful of students from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, bra model Dorothy Galligan, singer, songwriter Nona Hendryk and pop icon Cyndi Lauper, all of whom gather at the posh Midtown locale in their fanciest attire for the 62nd annual Femmy Awards.
Guests sipped prosecco, nippled on the three-course meal and listened to jazz as they gossiped about the bra and underwear industry. But not everyone admitted to being a fan of the innerwear world.  
“I burnt my training bra when I was a young girl,” Lauper told WWD. “I didn’t wear bras for years. And then, as I started to perform onstage, I realized I was bouncing all over the place. I realized I needed one.” (These days she prefers Cosabella and Natori bras.)
“Every woman knows that the proper undergarment makes the outfit,” Lauper added. “And now all these men are coming up to me [at the event], telling me that they’ve been in ladies underwear for years.” 
The singer came with

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Will YouTube videos replace fashion week presentations?
Tanya Taylor launched this morning a six-part video series on Instagram and YouTube. The series stars Michelle Buteau, Gillian Jacobs, Sasheer Zamata, Zosia Mamet and Jane Krakowski acting out various “Fashun Week” scenarios while modeling the brand’s fall 2020 collection. It’s no different from an ad campaign, except the series is Tanya Taylor’s sole New York Fashion Week initiative. For the first time, the brand will not host an in-person fashion week event this season.

“Tanya appreciated showcasing her newest collections during NYFW, but after returning to the calendar for spring 2020, she realized that her customers weren’t able to fully participate in the experience in the same way that industry insiders were,” wrote a representative for the brand via e-mail. “As a result, the brand challenged itself to think of a new way to engage both the fashion community and its consumer audience at the same time.”
Since hiring Derek Blasberg as head of its fashion and beauty division, YouTube has been flexing its fashion muscle. It hosted creators James Charles, Liza Koshy and Lilly Singh at last year’s Met Gala. During the spring season, Blasberg filmed a handful of videos with various creators, for

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SYDNEY — Australia was already impacted by its worst drought on record. But the devastating bushfire season, now compounded by the coronavirus outbreak, has made for a summer horribilis.
According to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released Thursday, retail turnover for the month of December fell 0.5 percent to 27.77 billion Australian dollars, or $18.74 billion, seasonally adjusted, following a 1 percent gain in November, fueled by Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales promotions.
Australian Retailers Association executive director Russell Zimmermann said while year-over-year growth was the key index when interpreting retail sales data — 2.66 percent growth in December, a result he described as “pedestrian” and “disappointing” — month-over-month falls in department stores (down 2.8 percent); clothing, footwear and personal accessories (down 1.5 percent) and household goods (down 0.3 percent) — three of the four worst December results, in categories where November retail events were widely promoted — underlined the point that December sales were likely pulled forward.
“A similar factor seems evident where bushfires are concerned, with the worst monthly results in South Australia (down 1.34 percent) and New South Wales (down 1.24 percent) occurring in two of the states worst affected by bushfires,” said Zimmermann.
The ARA also anticipates that January’s

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