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US online shoe and apparel brand Zappos has rolled out a digital magazine for iPad. The monthly publication, Zappos ZN, contains editorial-style content featuring branded products with links to purchase.

It’s Christmas, and we bring you… more Lagerfeld than you can shake a Tannenbaum at. You see, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has taken over the window displays of Paris department store Printemps in what can only be described as a whole lotta Karl in the form of puppets doing as Karl does as photographer, designer and director.

Old Navy has sailed into IT fashion with the launch of its Techno world collection of clothes and accessories with built-in technology. That means the likes of the Techno Hoodie and Hat which have HB3 Technology integrated into their design through machine washable earbuds and an input jack that connects with customers’ portable media devices.

Karl has a new Phone app, Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld. The designer has joined forces with a baker’s dozen of names from the world of fashion and art to come up with a photo gallery featuring elements of the Hogan’s ultralight down coats and windbreakers, zip-through jackets and sleeveless body warmers and bombers.

Fashion brands grab four of the top 10 brand rankings for Chinese youth on the Sina Weibo social networking platform, according to a report, China’s Young Consumers In The Age Of Social Media, from CIC and GroupM. adidas originals takes fourth place with a 2.75% youth following, with Converse in seventh (1.6%) ahead of Vancl and H&M in ninth and tenth, respectively. adidas is classified as a ‘trendy’, ‘fresh’, ‘indie’ brand, according to the report, while Converse is also trendy, while boasting ‘street snap’ too. VANCL is ‘funny, friendly’ and H&M is about ‘information’.

Converse has tasked its Facebook fans with selling branded footwear. Via the Made By app on the social network, users can design their very own versions of the brand’s shoes, and then market them via a Facebook store. And five pairs sold equals one pair free for the social media designers.

Consumers can tweet their way into Barneys Madison Avenue with Gaga Constellation, part of Lady Gaga’s Holiday Workshop on the New York Store. Users tweet their holiday wishes into the constellation’s window installation with the #gagastars hashtag and posts are selected by Gaga design collaborator Nicola Formichetti.

Clarks Originals is celebrating iconic moments in music history with its Rock Royalty Collection, a quartet of limited edition desert boots paying homage to the defining musical movements which shaped style.

That means the Union Jack, inspired by the era of punks, pins and radical style, when three chords was all it took to spark a rock revolution.