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Howard's end.(The Month in Fashion)
Aug 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Istithmar, the investment firm owned by the Dubai government, snapped up Barneys New York last year, cynical fashion tongues wagged that it would only be a matter of time before a major management shake-up. Sure enough, in May, amid buzz that he was ...
Blass off.(The Month in Fashion)(NexCen Brands Inc.)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008; ... The economy is heading south, and in mid-May Bill Blass felt the pinch. NexCen Brands Inc., which owns Blass, saw its shares tumble by a whopping 77.1 percent after the firm disclosed that it had failed to note in its annual report a $30 million loan payment due. Ever since, the fashion ...
Donna for all.(The Month in Fashion)
Aug 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Donna Karan dresses both ladies of luxury (with her Collection line) and bridge shoppers (with DKNY). This July the designer is hoping to capture yet another tier of customers with her new line, DKNYC. While the fashionable, urban collection (priced from ...
Tod's in Tinseltown.(The Month in Fashion)(Gwyneth Paltrow's handbag )(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the Cannes Film Festival in May, the cast of the new Indiana Jones movie hogged most of the attention. But a five-minute short film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and a Tod's nylon handbag got its own share of buzz--at least among the fashion set. ...
Star patterns.(The Month in Fashion)
Aug 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With Rachel Bilson doing a line for DKNY Jeans, Avril Lavigne creating one for Kohl's and Pete Wentz designing for his Clandestine Industries, one might think there were enough celeb fashion collections out there to satisfy pop culture vultures. Not so, it ...