Bloomingdale?s is Down With Love

Spring 2003, New York, NY?Down With Love, the movie starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan MacGregor, is the most recent fashion inspiration for Bloomingdale?s in-store boutique opening on April 7th. The shops feature ready-to-wear, accessories and Stila cosmetics influenced by the 1960?s fashions of ladylike glamour and female empowerment. Down with Love shops will be located in New York, Boston, New Jersey, White Plains, Los Angeles and Miami Bloomingdale?s.

Bloomingdale?s 59th Street will also host a very special window unveiling with the stars from Down With Love, Renee Zellweger and Ewan MacGregor on Tuesday, April 15th. The window spectacular will begin with an over-the-top fashion show highlighting the numerous vendors featured in the shop, such as Anne Klein, Shoshanna, MAG, Carolee, Lu Lu Guiness, Laundry and Nick & Nora. Renee Zellweger will present a special make-up bag collection from Nick & Nora with a portion of the proceeds going to her chosen charity JCCC, ?UCLA?s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center?. The bag is available in three styles; traincase $30.00, medium oval $24.00 and small oval $20.00.

The Fox 2000 Pictures / Regency Enterprises film, starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, is the story of a spark-filled collision between a woman who has sworn off love and a ladies' man who thinks he doesn't need love. DOWN WITH LOVE puts a hip spin on the golden age of the classic Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies. Set in the early 1960s, by way of the early 2000s, and every frame pops with the super-saturated palette of 60s Technicolor. Process shots, stock shots, backlot NYC street scenes, snazzy apartments, and elegant supper clubs are the backdrop for DOWN WITH LOVE's characters, including Zellweger's best-selling advice author and McGregor's hotshot journalist/playboy. DOWN WITH LOVE is from "American Beauty" producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks and "Bring It On" director Peyton Reed.
Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group.

The film isn?t just set in the heyday of the genre, it looks like it was made in the 60s. Every frame exudes style, sophistication and wit, popping with high-gloss, Technicolor images of dazzling outfits?designed by Daniel Orlandi?snazzy apartments, elegant supper clubs and posh executive suites. Stock and process shots add to the film?s retro-cool vibe. Down With Love also stars David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson and Tony Randall.

?Bloomingdale?s strives to bring ?retail theatre? to life and partnering with a movie such as ?Down with Love? helps bring the excitement and glamour that Bloomingdale?s customers have learned to expect,? said Tony Spring, Executive Vice President of Marketing. ?Down With Love is a great example of how movies and fashion influence each other and Bloomingdale?s always strives to offer our customers the most coveted, fashionable merchandise.?

Stila cosmetics, a West Coast-based makeup company founded by in-demand celebrity makeup artist Jeanine Lobell, was so impressed by the fashions displayed in the film that they decided to partner with Fox to create products inspired by the movie. Stila cosmetics has created a ?Down with Love? 60?s-inspired hat box containing an exclusive Chocolate Lip Glaze as well as eye shadow and cheek colors. The hatboxes will be available to consumers for purchase at Stila counters at the beginning of April, before the movie?s May 16, 2003, launch date.

The JCCC provides an infrastructure to support basic, clinical and population-based cancer research and to facilitate interdisciplinary research. The JCCC receives support from the National Cancer Institute through a Cancer Center Support Grant. Through the grant, shared services are established to aid our investigators in all areas of cancer research. Additional support is provided to recruit the ?best and the brightest? young faculty to UCLA from around the world. Through the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, philanthropic supports funds ?seeds? grants for new research projects to stimulate the translation of laboratory discoveries into improved patient care and support innovative clinical research at UCLA and affiliated institutions.

Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group.

Bloomingdale?s, a division of Federated Departments Stores, was founded in 1872 and currently operates 28 stores in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, California and Nevada. For website access, log onto www.bloomingdales.com.
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