Author: creative
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Ralph Lauren closing stores as sales slump
Ralph Lauren is closing stores, focusing more on its most popular brands and trimming layers from its management team seven months after bringing in a new CEO to reverse its declining fortunes. Shares …
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Marc Jacobs wins big at CFDA Awards
Marc Jacobs has been declared ‘Womenswear Designer of the Year' following the 2016 CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Fashion Awards.
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Whitney Houston’s Passports, Wedding Dress and Other Personal Items Put Up for Auction
A jacket given to the singer by her father emblazoned with her childhood nickname Nippy and a Disney coloring book entirely in Japanese will also be available for bidding.
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Gucci takes fashionistas to Westminster Abbey for catwalk show
London's Westminster Abbey has hosted royal weddings as well as burials and memorials for numerous famous British subjects. On Thursday, its cloisters were the setting for a rather different gathering — a fashion show. Italian luxury label Gucci took fashionistas to the famed venue, where Britain's Prince William married Kate Middleton in 2011, to present…
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Flower girls storm the runways for Resort 2017 collections
Christian Dior set the tone, with the French house's English-inspired show replete with country florals in the form of draped tea dresses and sheer blouses covered in springtime patterns, mixed in among all the pictorial jacquards, rich velvets and silks. The humble garden pansy formed the basis of Christopher Kane's entire collection, recreated as a…
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Kate Moss face of Alberta Ferretti campaign
Kate Moss has been tapped to be the next spokesmodel for Alberta Ferretti's fall campaign.
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Rocket Internet’s sales growth slows as seeks to stem losses
By Emma Thomasson BERLIN (Reuters) – Shares in German ecommerce investor Rocket Internet slid on Tuesday after it reported that revenue growth slowed sharply in the first quarter at most of its top start-ups as it took steps to try to reduce their losses. Rocket has pledged that the 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion)it burnt…
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Luxury Brands Struggle to Attract Internet Generation
Seducing hyper-connected “Millennials” poses an increasing challenge for luxury brands, which find their markets slowing as young, skeptical consumers force them to rethink strategies. Goldman Sachs estimates that 92 million Americans are in the Millennial generation – born between the early 1980s and the 2000s – surpassing the famed cohort of postwar Baby Boomers who…
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Vuitton show draws fashion world to crisis-hit Brazil
NITEROI, Brazil (AP) — The fashion world has flocked to Brazil, defying an outbreak of the Zika virus, political chaos and an economic meltdown afflicting the country to attend a runway show by revered French house Louis Vuitton.