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Missoni Shoppers Crashed Target’s Website; Olivia Palermo to Launch Her Blog Later This Month

Olivia Palermo at the Tibi show yesterday.
Olivia Palermo at the Tibi show yesterday. Photo: Bennett Raglin/2011 Bennett Raglin

• Target’s website crashed yesterday morning when too many customers attempted to buy the new Missoni collection. [WWD]

• Olivia Palermo’s blog launches later this month, with a “lovely team of writers” already on staff. [Fashionista]

Page Six magazine did an “exposé” on Zac Posen. An unnamed “stylist who has worked on Posen’s runway shows” says, “Zac was always ridiculous … But then he became a parody of himself. People around him have a head for business and try to rein him in, but he’s never had to work from the bottom up, and he’s too used to everyone flapping around him to notice that his name doesn’t mean what it used to.” [Page Six Magazine/NYP]

• A Korean retail company has bought out Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, saving the company from its financial troubles. [WWD]

Missoni Shoppers Crashed Target’s Website; Olivia Palermo to Launch Her Blog Later This Month