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BoF Daily Digest | Waiting for Wang, Hugo Boss’ fast lane, D&G tax trial,...
Alexander Wang | Source: High Snobiety Balenciaga Taps Alexander Wang (IHT) “Alexander Wang on Monday became the first designer of Asian descent to enter the highest ranks of Parisian high fashion when...
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BoF Daily Digest | Topshop to sell stake, Bracing for 2013, Co-Creation...
Topshop Oxford Street store | Source: EKM Power Shop Green nears Topshop stake sale (FT) “Sir Philip Green, the retail entrepreneur, is close to selling a 25 per cent stake in Topshop and Topman to a...
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BoF Daily Digest | Soaring Prada profits, Mulberry tumbles, PPR sells Redcats...
Prada Autumn/Winter 2012 | Source: GQ Prada 9-Months Net Profit Jumps 50% Amid Continued Strong Demand (Dow Jones) “Chief Executive Patrizio Bertelli said Thursday that the company’s business has...
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BoF Daily Digest | Lululemon’s competition, Prada’s demands, Fashion...
Lululemon campaign by Chase Jarvis | Source: Michelle Myhre Once unique, Lululemon faces rivals on all sides (MSN Money) “When Lululemon Athletica Inc opened its first U.S. shop in 2003, its...
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Week in Review | Saillard’s new genre, Design and Development basics, Market...
Week in Review December 3-7 The Creative Class | Olivier Saillard, Curator (The Creative Class) “No curator has succeeded in capturing the imagination of the international fashion community quite like...
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BoF Daily Digest | PPR buys Qeelin stake, Dover Street Market in NYC, Gilt in...
Qeelin advertorial campaign | Source: Qeelin PPR Aims to Buy More Chinese Brands After Adding Qeelin (BusinessWeek) “PPR bought a majority stake in Chinese jeweler Qeelin for an undisclosed price and...
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BoF Daily Digest | Highland Chanel, H&M recycling plan, ASOS on track,...
Chanel pre-fall, Linlithgow Palace | Source: Wallpaper* Chanel’s Scottish Touch Warms Up the Scottish Highlands (IHT) “The Chanel show that Karl Lagerfeld put on last week at Linlithgow Palace, near...
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BoF Daily Digest | High Street King, Inditex profit rise, PPR invests, Top...
Sir Philip Green by Ben Gurr | Source: The Times Topshop’s Sir Philip Green: How he became king of the High Street (BBC News) “The moment Sir Philip Green finally ‘arrived’ was in the year 2000, when...
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BoF Daily Digest | Narciso’s fixer, Square for Burberry, Twitter vs...
Narciso Rodriguez and Robert Wichser by Ramsay de Give | Source: WSJ The Fixer in the House of Narciso (WSJ) “For women’s fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez, it has meant hiring left-brain...
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BoF Daily Digest | Barneys’ makeover, Impulse buying, L’Wren Scott fragrance,...
Co-op at Barneys New York | Source: 2x4 What’s a Store For? (NY Times) “But Perry, no doubt out of devotion to his wife, Lisa, a fashion designer who made the suit in the same double knit she uses for...
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Week in Review | Fashion Tomes of the Times, Planning Your Time, PPR buys...
Week in Review December 10-14 Finding Your M.O. | Part 13: Planning Your Time (Education) “In 2000, I graduated from business school and joined McKinsey & Company as a generalist consultant. My...
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BoF Daily Digest | Tapping into Instagram, Hong Kong’s crown, H&M sales hit,...
Instagram photos | Source: NY Times On Instagram, a Thriving Bazaar Taps a Big Market (NY Times) “Instagram, the picture-sharing application that Facebook bought earlier this year, has not yet figured...
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BoF Daily Digest | PPR on start-up watch, Singapore couture, NYC start-up...
PPR's François-Henri Pinault with Salma Hayek, Kate Moss and Jamie Hince at Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2013 | Source: Should be Chic PPR on watch for luxury ‘reinforcements’ (FT) “PPR is considering...
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BoF Daily Digest | Vuitton CEO surprise, Web only no more, Instagram outrage,...
Jordi Constans, left and Michael Burke, right | Source: JFDaily and Textilwirtschaft LVMH says Louis Vuitton CEO quits over ill health (Reuters) “Louis Vuitton’s new chief executive has quit suddenly...
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BoF Daily Digest | Rosso invests in Marni, Lafayette eyes Printemps, Flickr...
Renzo Rosso | Source: Diesel Diesel boss to take over Italy fashion house Marni (Reuters) “Diesel jeans brand founder Renzo Rosso is poised to take over Italy’s Marni to relaunch the bohemian-chic...
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BoF Daily Digest | Luxury lustre in 2013, Betsey’s back, Rad couture, V&A to...
Christian Dior boutique on Avenue Montaigne, Paris | Source: Dior Luxury goods firms lustre may fade, not vanish in 2013 (Reuters) “Luxury goods manufacturers won’t retain the immunity from tough...
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BoF Daily Digest | GAP buys Intermix, Investing in luxury, Burch Lawsuit...
Intermix store | Source: The Real Deal Gap to Buy Luxury Retailer Intermix (WSJ) “Gap Inc. is buying women’s fashion boutique Intermix Inc. for $130 million, a deal that will give the mostly...
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BoF Daily Digest | Rebound in Hong Kong, Redcats sale near, Trussardi scion,...
Hong Kong skyline | Source: Wikipedia Hong Kong Luxury Sales Rebound on Confidence in Mainland (Bloomberg) “Hong Kong’s luxury sales rebounded in a sign that confidence is returning to a Chinese...
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BoF Daily Digest | Smart designs, Reclaiming distribution, Peacocks on...
Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 1999 | Source: FT Smart designs (FT) “Though at this time of year it can seem as if advances in “heat-sensing/retaining/wicking” are the breaking news of the fashion...
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BoF Daily Digest | For the boys, Missoni search continues, Design schools in...
Topman Design, Lou Dalton, MAN Autumn/Winter 2013 | Source: Style.com Let’s hear it for the boys, London (Independent) “With British menswear undergoing something of a renaissance of late – from...
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