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"Here&amp;#x27;s a not-so-little something for all you fashion students, aspiring designers and serious clothes horses to put on your holiday gift list: how &amp;#x27;bout a fashion brand? I&amp;#x27;m not talking cute monogrammed little bags or something with a spiffy designer label--I mean the whole kit and kaboodle. 176 vintage trademarks are up for auction next week in NYC, including these kinda-crazy fashion &amp;quot;brands&amp;quot;:Poiret Why collect vintage clothing when you could have your own vintage fashion house? Since seemingly &amp;quot;Poiret&amp;quot; refers to Paul Poiret--20th century design icon, inventor of the hobble skirt and subject of the dreamy 2007 Costume Institute Exhibition at the Met--this is the most high-profile fashion brand of the bunch. Perhaps Sarah Jessica Parker would like to add it to her burgeoning fashion creative director career, now that she&amp;#x27;s got Halston (another fab vintage house) under her belt? Fair Isle While technically &amp;quot;Fair Isle&amp;quot; is a traditional Scottish knitting technique (best worn by The Dude and now at the height of winter fashion) it appears someone had the bright idea to trademark it--which could spell trouble for all the designers (and knitting grannies!) who whip up the cute, cozy knits, if the buyer starts getting territorial about how the term &amp;quot;Fair Isle&amp;quot; is used. There are a bunch of other brands up for auction that are a little like &amp;quot;Fair Isle&amp;quot;--words or phrases that have been trademarked at some point over the years, making them candidates for fashion house but (to my knowledge and Google abilities) haven&amp;#x27;t really ever been turned into a full-fledged line. Too bad too, since some of the brand names are so silly that you&amp;#x27;d love to see them in stores (or infomercials!). Here are a few of my favorites that are also up for auction: Hot Pants Bobby Socks Discowear Annie Hall Edwardian Hippy Flamenco Fashion Lazy Bones You can find the rest of &amp;#x27;em on the auction master list which I recommend checking out, just for fun as there are hysterical vintage beauty brands available too. (I&amp;#x27;ll give you three guesses as to what the name &amp;quot;Lady-Go-Lightly&amp;quot; refers to! Also, how genius is the name &amp;quot;Sudden Tan&amp;quot;?!) If you&amp;#x27;re in the hood, have a few thousand to spare (I&amp;#x27;m guesstimating here--when I called the folks behind the auction, they didn&amp;#x27;t have cost estimates yet) swing on by the Waldorf Astoria on December 8th for the brand name auction. Silly stuff right? If you had a fashion brand or store, what would you call it? Would you use your name like a lot of designers do, or would you make something up? More OMG fashion news: Going Commando Under a Kilt Has Officially Been Condemned The 5 Craziest Fashion Things We Saw This Week The Silly Reason Why Victoria Beckham Won&amp;#x27;t Be Designing Menswear 9-Inch Heels About To Be Tallest Shoes in Stores More Ways to Get Glamour: Download Glamour on your iPhone or iPad! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photo: Getty Images, Urban Outfitters "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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