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Tagged: Nike

Fashion

Anna Disappoints; The September Issue Backlash

144633• The Carolina Herrera dress that Anna Wintour wore on Dave Letterman's show this week? She wore it to the CFDA Awards back in June. Uh oh! [Stylelist]
Zac Posen is the latest designer to bid goodbye to Bryant Park this Fashion Week. He'll be staging his show at The Altman Building instead. [WWD]
• Another good thing about the recession: There are fewer crappy catalogs getting stuffed in your mailbox. [AP]
The September Issue doesn't open in theaters until Friday, but it seems some people (above) are already sick of all the publicity. [NYShitty]More

Scams

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Dreier Victims Revealed | The names of Marc Dreier's victims were released by a judge yesterday. Three hedge funds—Elliot Associates, Fortress Investment Group, and Eric Mindich's Eton Park Management—were at the top of the list of investors who were defrauded by the imprisoned lawyer. But a bunch of fashion/retail companies were swindled, too, including Nike, Adidas, Diesel USA, Tommy Hilfiger, and COOGI Partners, the company that controls Fubu and Heatherette. Let it be said, however, that Hilfiger and Heatherette founder Richie Rich almost certainly had nothing to do with the homeless look Dreier was rocking in the days after he was arrested. Men who commit financial crimes just have a tendency to commit fashion ones, too, that's all. [Crain's]

Media Remainders

Cable News and the Convention in Denver

  • NBC is leading the ratings with its coverage of the DNC. [TVDecoder]
  • The picture isn't so rosy at the New York Times. Revenues dropped 10 percent in July, largely because of the housing slump. [Bloomberg]
  • Denise Richards' bid for stardom just got a bit more complicated. Her reality show on E! has been canceled after a single season. [NYP]
  • Jon Stewart says Fox News is a "brutish, slow-witted beast." Fox News says Stewart is "out of touch." [Gawker]
  • It took months but it seems Rafael Nadal has finally decided on a new look—in partnership with marketing execs at Nike, of course. [WSJ]
  • Amanda Lepore is appearing in a new ad campaign for Jawbone Bluetooth headsets. [Copyranter]
  • A guide to the nastiest feuds on cable news. [Gawker]

The Circuit

The Week in Parties

1282301) At the New York premiere of spy thriller Traitor at the Regal Union Square last night, the film's stars Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, and Mozhan Marno walked the red carpet along with director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Busta Rhymes, Jesse Williams, Estelle, Aubrey O'Day, and Nicole Miller. [NYO/Wireimage]

2) Further downtown mayhem surrounded the opening of the Nike sportswear store at 21 Mercer Street: Giant electronic billboards and a marching band heralded the arrival of Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, and Serena Williams, who were joined by Mark Ronson (who DJed), Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Spike Lee, Katy Perry, Richie Akiva, Q-Tip, Justin Theroux, Alan Cumming, Cory Kennedy, Lily Cole, Alexander Wang, and many others. [Teen Vogue/PMc]More

Marketing Gimmicks

Nike Teams with King | Nike has recruited Don King—yes, that Don King—to promote next week's US Open. The "Grapple in the Apple" even gave sport's biggest stars new names: Roger "The Magician of Precision" Federer and Rafa "Matador of Spin" Nadal. [AdAge]

We Hear

Jeff Zucker Is a Nike Man

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That photo in this month's Portfolio of NBC chief Jeff Zucker dressed in an immaculate Nike outfit, without a single bead of sweat on his shiny bald dome as he crushed a serve? "The profile coincided with the Olympics. In the picture, he's dressed head to toe in Nike. And Nike happens to be spending a fortune on the Olympics. You do the math," says an NBC tipster. It's possible Zucker was also hoping to capture some of the sexiness of Roger Federer, the tennis star who wears similar Nike outfits and carries similar red tennis racquets. That won't be happening any time soon, of course. But Nike must be pleased with Zucker's dedication to the brand, no? "I suppose when an advertiser is spending that much money, it's only fair that the CEO of the network does everything in his power to promote it," says the tipster. Maybe Zucker should just be happy the company didn't insist that he wear a Rafael Nadal-style bandana.

Media Remainders

Fox Business, Bob Novak and Brangelina

  • Remember back when News Corp.'s Roger Ailes promised that Fox Business would crush CNBC? It turns out the upstart network is attracting 8,000 viewers during daytime hours, compared to CNBC's average of 250,000 or more. [NYO]
  • Right-wing columnist Robert Novak has a good excuse for running over a pedestrian last week: He's suffering from a brain tumor. [Chicago Sun-Times]
  • Mark Whitaker has been named NBC News's Washington bureau chief. [TVNewser]
  • Bonnie Fuller on Barack and Michelle Obama: They're turning themselves into the "Brangelina of the political world." [AdAge]
  • Nike is stirring up controversy with a new ad campaign that many find homophobic. [AdFreak]