September 26th, 2008 at 10:14pm |
Beauty is treading a slippery slope.
With a financial maelstrom raging on Wall Street, the fourth-quarter outlook for the $8.9 billion U.S. prestige beauty industry is wary at best, with reports of overall department store sales down 1.6 percent for August and behind by ОФИС-МЕНЕДЖЕР percent for year-to-date.
Cosmetics manufacturers and retailers don’t expect an easy road [...]
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September 26th, 2008 at 10:13pm |
PARIS — Garbage bag coats, safety-pin dresses and a stole crafted from red-eyed white mink mice are just some of the outr handiwork dished up by underground British designer Gareth Pugh during his past five seasons spent storming the runways at London Fashion Week. Shifting gears, Saturday will mark the avant-garde 27-year-old’s grand Paris debut, [...]
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September 26th, 2008 at 10:11pm |
Known for his attention to detail and dedication to luxury, Andrew Gn knew it was just a matter of time before he elevated his designs to the next level and introduced a full-scale made-to-measure line.
“I’ve always worked with couture-level details,” explains the Singapore-born, Paris-based designer. “Customers were asking me for it. And not just one [...]
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