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Customer demand for fur-trimmed ranges have helped New Look drive strong sales in the run-up to Christmas. The fashion retailer reported total UK sales for the 14 weeks to January 1 up 18.8 per cent, with like-for-like sales up 11.6 per cent. The company said strong customer demand for fake fur, mini-skirts, denim and rhinestone-studded […]

Imitation of Christ designer Sara Subkoff knows how to cause a little controversy, as much as she knows hot to get a little help from her friends. New this season for IOC is its denim label, and Subkoff decided to enlist the ever-so-beautiful looks of her best friend Scarlett Johansson to open the show dressed […]

The explosive demand for cheap imitations of designer labels is at its peak, with the likes of Sienna Miller and Kate Moss at the forefront. British retailers are enjoying the success with sales increases at low-price retailers like Asda’s George and TK Maxx. Meanwhile, mid-market retailers like Marks & Spencer and Next are continuing their […]

Watch out, Jessica, Paris and Lindsay: There’s a new object of the paparazzi’s dubious affection. And she’s proving to be a quick study of the red carpet’s perilous twists and turns, according to WWD. Katie Holmes, currently on tour with new fiance Tom Cruise, is flirting with different looks and different designers, but so far […]

Italian designer Alberta Ferretti has opened another Russian flagship store. Her second store in that country, it is located in Kaliningrad, an up-and-coming Russian shopping destination. The new store also carries the Philosophy by Ferretti range. The Ferretti boutique is franchised to 000 Status, the company’s Russian partner, which also opened a Moscow store with […]

Luxury fashion house Hermès has reported a 7.4 percent rise in 2005 operating profit of 383.5 million (£264.8 million). Net profit increased 15 percent to 247 million, up from 214 million euro in 2004. Annual turnover rose 7.2 percent to 1.43 billion, due mainly to Japanese sales growth and strong growth in other Asian Pacific […]

The sales have started which means it’s time to sharpen your elbows and join the annual battle at the tills. Or is it? Do you really need to fight the crowds, the snow, and that menacing fashion victim who claims she saw those half-price sandals first? You can now enjoy the magic of the sales […]

Caroline Charles, the eponymous designer from her namesake label from the 60s, is set to return to the catwalk for AW/06 after a ten-year absence. Charles is planning a catwalk show in February at the Royal Academy of Art. The label also returns to Selfridges in spring 06 with a concession stocking a selection from […]

US clothing retailer Liz Claiborne, maker of brands such as Juicy Couture, is to increase its China sourcing to up to 80 pct by 2010, following the lifting of quotas on Chinese apparel imports in 2008, the South China Morning Post reported. The company’s senior vice president Robert Zane was cited as saying that China […]

Icelandic retailer Baugur has squashed rumours that it might retract its bid for the House of Fraser department store chain. Nevertheless, the chain’s shares still slipped 3.4 percent as a result of the conjecture. “This is just a scurrilous rumour,” said a spokesman for Baugur. “It is completely false. Due diligence is progressing on schedule.” […]