Comments on: Fashion Industry News Roundup: 12/22/08

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:29:29 +0000

Well, finally! But welcome to the real world of ylang ylang . . .

By: Marin

Marin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:18:48 +0000

Mmmmm… ylang-ylang. One of my faves!

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:57:13 +0000

The ponzi schemes are only compounding what’s already a grave situation, and now we have what was much needed capital evaporating because of it. I think I might even be more troubled by the Maddoff thing than the automobile industry, but only because the Maddoff situation reveals a gaping black hole in the system that has the potential to rip apart any and all rescue plans in its path.
I have my doubts that Maddoff was the only con operation in town. The loss of fifty billion here and fifty billion there, pretty soon we’ll have precious few billions left for anybody to fight over. All in all, I’d rather be Oscar de la Renta bitching about gowns.

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:01:54 +0000

Well, it’s all rather sad…my own interests are currently leaning toward other American product, the automobile, whose manufacturers were excoriated, only to have today’s news reveal…Toyota’s sales down. Hmmph. I never soapboxed about jobs & product being more valuable than jerks & Ponzi schemes…but…
…oops, I did diverge a bit. Anyway, I’ll be the Met really does regret their decision…those who are left who understand/care. It’s tough to be in the arts these days, too.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:11:03 +0000

Those samples will go up in value lIke gold, baby, like. . . oh, wait, the value of gold has been going down a lot lately, so maybe that’s a bad metaphor.
Most likely, the Bill Blass entity doesn’t even own the rights to their name regarding fragrance production. For example, earlier in the post I talked about the upcoming release of the Oscar de la Renta “Sheer Freesia” fragrance, produced by Oscar de la Renta Parfums which is owned by a pharmaceutical company and not Oscar de la Renta.
Design houses often license or outright sell the rights to put their names on a fragrance bottle. YSL Beaute recently licensed off the YSL name to L’OrÈal for use on cosmetics and fragrances, also including the Stella McCartney, Zegna and Oscar de la . . . hey, wait, I thought that pharmaceutical company had licensed the rights to the Oscar de la Renta name for perfumes, at least according to the press release from earlier this year. Now I’m confused!
I’ll get back to you on all this!
(Later: Yeah, ODLR Parfums is now owned by L’Oreal — post has been corrected.)
And it was our own dear Oscar de la Renta, a naturalized U.S. citizen, who bitched mightily about the Met using Euro designers. He got a lot of attitude from the Met in return, but with the wisdom of hindsight (amid dwindling contributions from cash-strapped U.S. companies and individuals), I’m betting the Met now wishes they had supported American designers.

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:40:28 +0000

Did the two Bill Blass fragrance samples I received recently just go up in value?
(And wait a minute…who was the American designer who boycotted the opening of the Met this season, because a French designer did the costumes?)