2010

Luxury & Fashion Biz News: December 7th, 2010 (A Bloodbath at Barneys, Tom Ford Breaks the Rules and Alexander Wang Shoots for the Moon)

December 8, 2010

1.) It’s No Longer Playtime at Barneys as New CEO Shakes Things Up: “No department store in the 1990s had the cool factor of Barneys New York. It had the edgiest designers (Martin Margiela, Helmut Lang, Comme des Garçons), the kookiest windows and a team of buyers and merchandisers that made the store something of [...]

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An Interview With Yours Truly at Digital Marketing Site, FashionablyMarketing.Me

December 7, 2010

I’m late (again — I know, stop looking at me like that) at getting a fashion & luxury biz roundup posted, but while I work on finishing that up today, please head on over to the Fashionably Marketing website and check out the interview they conducted with yours truly (uhm, that would be me). Follow [...]

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Ask A Fellow Fragrance Fiend (or “The Day I Turned to Katie Puckrik for Help”)

December 3, 2010

November 25th, Auckland, New Zealand Katie! I just came across your review of Maison Francis Kurkdjian Absolue pour la Soir, and am wondering if you think I might like it? Do you still like it yourself, or have you shaken off your intense interest since that first joyful moment of discovery and bonding? Actually, since [...]

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Here Comes Santa Claus: The 2010 Edition

December 2, 2010

Yes, I know, not only do you have to continue to deal with your own everyday life routines — grocery shopping, dentist appointments, bathtub scrubbing, botox injections — but now you’re also supposed to stuff your December calendar full with a scheduled battery of last minute home baked fruitcakes, programming the family’s traditional lawn light [...]

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Luxury & Fashion Biz News: Nov. 27, 2010 (Of Hermes, Mergers, Fast-Fashion and Black Friday)

November 27, 2010

1.) An Hermes Kelly So Large You Can Walk Around In It: “The Hermes Kelly … gets a super-size makeover courtesy of Selfridges. The handbag, named after Grace Kelly, has been turned into a 4-meter installation displayed at the London department store as part of its Christmas toy theme . . . The Kellydoscope will [...]

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Mandy Aftel & Andy Tauer: Letters to a Fellow Perfumer (ep. 7)

November 23, 2010

Berkeley, November 19th, 2010 Dear Andy, Thank you so much for sending me your Linden Blossom trial from October 11th. Since we’d been sharing our thoughts as we worked on the same theme of a linden perfume, I opened the box with great anticipation and more than a little fear that, following some of the [...]

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Catch-22: The Perfume Edition

November 21, 2010

So I headed to the World Beauty store on Saturday (World Beauty is a part of the New Zealand based World Brand) to check out the place and see what they carried. I’d read that they stocked a number of niche fragrance brands, and sure enough, among the soaps and skincare products, there were stashed [...]

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Mandy Aftel & Andy Tauer: Letters to a Fellow Perfumer (ep. 6)

November 15, 2010

Zurich, November 14, 2010 Dearest Mandy, I hope these lines find you well, and that you soon receive the sample I sent last week. I write this letter as I’m sitting in the train, leaving for a hike as far away from town as possible, moving forward to silence and the fragrances of nature on [...]

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The Fragrance Biz: An Interview with Franco Wright (co-owner of Los Angeles based Scent Bar/Lucky Scent)

November 13, 2010

Back in August, I conducted an email interview with Franco Wright, one of the owners of the exclusive niche fragrance shop Scent Bar in Los Angeles (along with its associated older-sister website, Lucky Scent). I was originally planning on using his responses as background for the interviews I’m conducting with artisanal perfumers, but I felt [...]

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Luxury & Fashion Biz News: Nov. 9, 2010 (It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)

November 9, 2010

1.) HERMES vs. LVMH: The big news from the last few weeks is (CEO of LVMH) Bernard Arnault’s acquisition of a 17% stake in the House of Hermes, purchased on the sly through a series of equity swaps back in 2008. Fashion pundits are abuzz, Hermes family members are annoyed and Bernard Arnault is defiant, [...]

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