PARIS — Financire FC, the holding company that controls Clarins, has acquired enough shares in the French cosmetics firm to delist it from the Paris stock exchange, L’Autorit des Marchs Financiers, the French market regulator, announced Tuesday.
Financire FC, which is owned by the Courtin-Clarins family, now holds 96.4 percent of Clarins capital and 97.2 [...]
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The annual Life Ball, a modern bacchanal in Vienna, is Europe’s largest AIDS charity event. But in 1992, a year before the Euros began their little party with a retrospective of Thierry Mugler’s work, the California Fashion Industry Friends of AIDS Project honored him in Los Angeles. And WWD was there.
It was actually the CFI [...]
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The once sleepy, low-profile Faonnable is starting to wake up.
With an eye on growth, the Nice, France-based traditional men’s and women’s collection has pumped up its ranks with new creative and executive talent. Eric Wright, formerly with Roberto Cavalli and Karl Lagerfeld, has been named artistic director, and Lance Isham, formerly Polo Ralph [...]
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