The Rise of Normcore; Girls' Allison Williams is Engaged

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Local
· Kate Hudson looks SO Miami in this bright ensemble [E!]
· The most Miami-like trends in New York Fashion Week [Miami.com]
· BMW crashes straight through a children's boutique in Plantation [NBC 6]

National/International
· Photos of racy American Apparel ads all over LA [BI]
· Washington, DC getting its first SoulCycle [Racked DC]
· Discounter Loehmann's has closed all its stores [NYT]
· Beauty product 'cocktailing' is on the rise [WSJ]
· How Lucky's fashion features editor made it [TFS]
· Girls star Allison Williams engaged to longtime boyfriend [Marie Claire]
· On the rise of Normcore, or dressing like Jerry Seinfeld [The Cut]
· Free People features real customers modeling the clothes [Racked Philly]
· Who has it worse: the fashion assistant or the Hollywood assistant? [FWD]
· Inside the ultra-Christian campus group turning out WalMart managers [Salon]