Alexandra Bruell

 
Alexandra Bruell is a Web coordinator and reporter for PRWeek, covering the fashion and beauty industries. She manages PRWeek.com, covers news, and writes features for both the Web site and print magazine.
 

Recent Articles

Barneys' target

May 09, 2008

An odd pairing between Barneys' and Target is generating a lot of buzz, some that looks pre-meditated, some based on praise, and some on, what was probably a less-meditated, confusion.

Filming fashion and fashioning film

May 08, 2008

Agent Provocateur is the latest example of a company extending its advertising message with dramatic, film-like videos to add buzz.

Hess Natur's US debut to be managed by B&B

May 06, 2008

LOS ANGELES: Hess Natur, a German-based mail-order apparel brand that is organically sourced and manufactured, named Bullfrog & Baum (B&B) its AOR, tasking the agency with the promotion of its US debut planned for this July.

So Low uses celebrities to boost West Coast presence

April 30, 2008

In May 2006, casual loungewear brand So Low, based in LA, was only selling on the East Coast. The company looked into building a presence on the West Coast, but after conducting new research on the brand, it found that the age group it was targeting, 25 to 35, was too old.

LG's 'Scarlet' is just a commercial

April 29, 2008

LG Electronics' $100 million marketing and advertising campaign for a new series of flat panel TVs took an unusual turn last night. About 500 people crowded into the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood for what they expected was a screening of a new TV series entitled Scarlet, but Scarlet turned out to be a red back panel TV from LG, the the Wall Street Journal reports.

China shakes up its fashion relations

April 28, 2008

Two top stories in WWD today show that fashion brands' international tensions with China can both interrupt and inspire business plans in the country.

Interview: Sharon King Hoge

April 28, 2008

Sharon King Hoge, the editor-in-chief of Verdant magazine, talks to PRWeek about her PR and journalism experience, as well as the external factors that are affecting the green movement and the role that Verdant plays in green media.

The fade fad

April 21, 2008

Tans have faded in and out of style as predictably as they do the skin.

NYC is on sale

April 14, 2008

Leave it to the fashion industry to remind us of what we can't afford and, like salt in the wound, to create a new buzz phrase to attract international shoppers - "NYC is on sale."

'My Wall Street Journal' causes stir

April 14, 2008

News Corp's purchase of the Wall Street Journal last year apparently provided satirists with enough content for a parody paper. According to the New York Times, the paper, "My Wall Street Journal," aims to skewer News Corp, its properties, Rupert Murdoch, politicians, and Wall Street characters.
 
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