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· Uniqlo has a lauded recipes app [iTunes]
· The lucrative world of Christmas tree sales [NYT]
· Avril Lavigne gets a makeover, looks great [Allure]
· Creepy man visits The American Girl store in LA [Conan]
· Rebecca Minkoff, friends train to be Rockettes [YouTube]
· Expensive sneakers are moneymakers for Nike [BoF/Bloomberg]
· No one knows why John Mayer is wearing this ugly fur coat [StyleWatch]
· Inside Comme des Garçons' wild, crazy, colorful new NYC market [Racked NY]