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PARIS RETAILERS BANK ON MEN'S.
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Daily News Record
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April 28, 2008
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- Marsh, Emilie
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Byline: Emilie Marsh
PARIS - Forget ladies first.
Sales of men's fashion outpaced women's in France for the first time last year and retailers here are pulling out all the stops to ensure that trend continues, despite a precarious economic climate.
Department stores and niche boutiques from Galeries Lafayette and Printemps
to L'Eclaireur are upping their style
quotient, increasing their accessory and luxury brand offerings, remodeling their stores and sprucing up their private label lines to draw in Parisian men, who are primping, shopping for pleasure and bolstering their wardrobes with high-end labels like never before.
According to the French ...
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WWD;
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475 words
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Tosh, Mark;
253 words
......mulls shoe questions PARIS (FNS) -- Galeries Lafayette has yet to determine which lines...to shoes in its first U.S. store. Galeries Lafayette officials recently reported their...New York store. Earlier this month Galeries Lafayette, the upscale French retailer, disclosed...
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489 words
...Galeries Lafayette shoe dept. sets fashion pace PARIS (FNS) -- Galeries Lafayette prides itself on being...interested in fashion. (Men's footwear is in a different...building in the three-store Galeries Lafayette flagship complex.) Calisti...markets, respectively. Galeries ...
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Hye, Jeanette;
412 words
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MacDonald, Laurie;
787 words
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