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Fourth of July Fashion Sales You Don’t Want to Miss

Jaime E. Love

The July sale events have kicked off ahead of the long weekend. Major retailers and brand names are offering deep discounts for July 4th.

Shop markdowns across fashion categories, including clothing, shoes and accessories, for a limited time. This is the time to purchase a dress or a pair of sandals for summer on discount.

Whether it’s a sitewide sale or discount on select styles, these July deals are some of the best you’ll find this summer. Revolve, Intermix, Alice + Olivia, Bloomingdale’s and Ray-Ban are among the fashion favorites participating in the July 4th sale.

Happy July 4th shopping, and check back as ET Style keeps you updated on the best new markdowns and deep discounts as retailers go live and announce their sales.

Quay’s BOGO Sale: sunnies and blue light glasses sitewide through July 5.

Adidas is letting you save 25% sitewide with the code SUMMER

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The Designer & His Fans Aren’t Happy

Jaime E. Love

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When fans excitedly logged on to try and scoop up one of Telfar Clemens’ highly-coveted Shopping Bags during today’s restock, they noticed the styles sold out even more quickly than normal. Soon, the tweets were coming fast and furious— with the hype reaching sneaker-drop levels.

Many people were upset that they couldn’t score the bags, and soon, the designer took to Instagram stories with a striking statement: “Telfar is for the people. Not Bots. Store on ice while we root them out.”

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The it bag, also known as the “Bushwick Birkin”, retails between $150 and $257 — and has become a powerful success story that’s a rarity in the fashion world. First embraced by a group of cool kids, mostly people of color and queer people, Telfar’s fan base grew rapidly in a short time.

“There was nothing like

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Zilingo Cuts 12% More Jobs as Online Fashion Shopping Plummets

Jaime E. Love

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Zilingo Pte, a fashion tech platform backed by Temasek Holdings Pte, has cut an additional 12% of its total workforce as it extends cost-cutting measures to deal with Covid-19 fallout, according to a blog post.

The latest cuts come on top of a 5% headcount reduction around April. The company helps small fashion outlets across South and Southeast Asia get online, market and deliver their goods, but it said the coronavirus outbreak has already led to a quarter of those businesses closing doors.

To rein in its own costs, Zilingo is downsizing marketing, sourcing and support teams in the U.S., Australia, Singapore and Indonesia. The leadership team is taking a 30% pay cut, most employees will shift to working from home at least part of the time and some regional offices will be let

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The COVID effect on work fashion in Charlotte

Jaime E. Love

High heels? No thanks. Pants with zippers? So 2019. In the age of quarantine and remote working, comfort is king in the Queen City.

Like nearly everything in life, Charlotte fashion has been turned on its head during the COVID-19 pandemic. With Zoom calls replacing meetings, couches replacing conference rooms and Netflix replacing nights out, business and formal attire are becoming as passe as handshakes. Instead we are seeing the rise of what the Wall Street Journal dubbed the “business mullet” — formal up top, party down below.

“I’d live in my joggers if I could, and the best part is that I can wear a professional blouse up top during my Zoom calls with clients and no one is the wiser,” said Charlotte business coach, strategist, author and podcaster Jenny Melrose. “Plus I’m able to hop up and be comfortable running an errand or playing with the kids. Comfort

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