Kate Middleton's Christmas Shopping; Rick Owens Goes Online

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· Rick Owens' online store to go live today [Rick Owens]
· Vogue Jan cover features Cate Blanchett [HuffPo/TwitPic]
· Isabel Marant helped H&M's bottom line this year [Bloomberg]
· Vaseline launches pink, bejeweled lip treatment [Beauty Counter]
· By 2015, infomercial sales will be a $250 billion business [The Week]
· Burberry opens first beauty boutique in London [Telegraph UK]
· Amazon warehouse pickers to strike outside retailer's Seattle HQ [Bits]
· What Kate Middleton bought baby George for Christmas [Marie Claire UK]
· Study finds online shoppers less likely to purchase item modeled by someone with tattoos, dark skin [Live Science]

Chicago News—
· Meggings Man Clothing is a new Chicago company that makes the male equivalent of—you guessed it— leggings [Digital Journal]
· Some 30 resale shops closed in Chicago in 2013 [PR Web]
· Founded locally, the web-based Colossal Shop features life-size origami elephants, edible chocolate art supplies [DailyCandy Chicago]