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The Luxury & Fashion Biz: 08/20/10 (Of Hermes scarves, Mass-Market Unique and Ads for Ads)

August 20, 2010

1.) Hermes Shakes Off Its Heritage, Joins the Street-Style Bloggers: “Hermes and its scarves are as iconic a pairing as Chanel and its twinsets, but while both are usually associated with high luxe and ladylike glamour, one look at the new fashion website Hermes has just launched will show you an urban cool side to [...]

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Luxury Industry News: 06/04/10

June 4, 2010

1.) Why Luxury Brands and Celebrities Don’t Always Mix:“What I wonder is if Lady Gaga sits in her spacious first class seat as she flies from location to location with a glue gun and a bag of studs working on her handbag-art-project. You know, with anyone else I would be shocked, but this is Lady [...]

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Luxury Industry News: Are Luxury Brands Just Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

May 28, 2010

The Urban Dictionary defines “shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic” like this: “Actions taken solely for the feeling (or the appearance) of doing something about an unavoidable situation; actions that not only accomplish nothing but *blatantly* accomplish nothing.” And as I was catching up on the several weeks of news in the luxury brand world [...]

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Luxury Industry News Roundup: 03/12/10

March 12, 2010

1.) The “IT” Bag is Back, But Less Flashy This Time Around:“Fashion insiders have long been predicting its death. But it seems there is still life in the old ‘It bag’ yet. Selfridges says that it has seen a 60 per cent increase in the past year in sales of ‘must-have’ luxury handbags. The rise [...]

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Luxury Industry News Roundup: 02/26/10

February 26, 2010

1.) London Fashion week came and went, and now Milan is tossing styles down their runways (ending on Monday), followed by Paris all through next week. Just a few highlights so far: In London, the fashion crowd lost their minds for the Narciso Rodriguez model. 3.) Saks Fifth Avenue Does Better Than Expected:“Luxury department store [...]

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Extra News (Because You Should Know): 02/24/10

February 24, 2010

I’m presently so swamped in global Fashion Week related information (London just finished and the herd is thundering on to Milan) that the other relevant and related bits of Luxury Industry info are getting pushed off the table (bad Fashion Week, bad! No biscuit!). But below is a smattering of happenings, progressions, events and reports [...]

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Luxury Industry News Roundup: 02/05/10

February 5, 2010

1.) Celebrities + Fashion Shows = Dirty Little Secret:“Backstage at Armani Prive that night, I chatted with Anne Hathaway about the exquisite collection of pink corseted dresses dusted with stardust we had just seen, every one of which will surely be fought over at the Oscars. I asked her which shows she had enjoyed so [...]

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Luxury Industry News Roundup: 01/29/10

January 29, 2010

1.) Lagerfeld Still Knows How to Wow the Critics:“Chanel was the best show of the spring haute couture collections, in a class by itself. Those ethereal cloud colors–pale pink, blue and violet, a sudden vinegary yellow. Those subtle wool boucle dresses and jackets at the beginning with the seams magically erased by flat, random stitches. [...]

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Luxury Industry News Roundup: 01/15/10

January 15, 2010

1.) Just When You Started to Believe in All That “Recovery” Talk:“Retail sales drop 0.3% in December as sales for all of 2009 plunge by a record amount . . . The December drop in sales was a surprise given that the nation’s big retailers had reported better-than-expected results last week, reflecting a surge of [...]

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Fashion Industry News Roundup: 11/20/09

November 20, 2009

1.) It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Men World:“Rumors have been swirling that Janie Bryant, the stylist of the critically acclaimed Mad Men series–with the backing of AMC–is planning to roll out an entire fashion collection based on the 1960′s clothes worn by Don and Betty Draper on the show . . . Well, [...]

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Jim

The Luxury & Fashion Biz: 08/20/10 (Of Hermes scarves, Mass-Market Unique and Ads for Ads)

Luxury Industry News: 06/04/10

Luxury Industry News: Are Luxury Brands Just Shuffling Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Luxury Industry News Roundup: 03/12/10

Luxury Industry News Roundup: 02/26/10

Extra News (Because You Should Know): 02/24/10

Luxury Industry News Roundup: 02/05/10

Luxury Industry News Roundup: 01/29/10

Luxury Industry News Roundup: 01/15/10

Fashion Industry News Roundup: 11/20/09

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