Consuelo Castiglioni zigszags through the Marni showroom on a balmy Friday morning while several retailers are entrenched in finalizing spring orders. As they rise to compliment the petite designer on her spring lineup, the ever-shy Castiglioni thanks them, but is noticeably uncomfortable in the spotlight, preferring her clothes to speak for her.
As evidenced by her [...]
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GRASSE, France — The newly renovated Muse International de la Parfumerie here has reopened after a four-year expansion project that doubled its size to 3,500 square meters, or 37,674 square feet.
The renovation of the museum, which was established in its current space in 1989, cost of 11.3 million euros, or $14.5 million at current [...]
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New York-based Inter Parfums Inc. reported net sales increased by 21 percent during the third quarter to $123.5 million, from $102.3 million in the same period a year ago. At constant exchange, revenues during the quarter ended Sept. 30 would have risen 16 percent.
Sales from the firm’s European operations were up 23 percent during [...]
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“If you have any questions to my answers, I can clarify them for you,” says Giorgio Armani as he sits at his desk and flips open a book on design. On cue, his public relations rep hands over six crisp white pages filled with type.
Meticulously well prepared, direct and very, very controlled—this is classic Armani. [...]
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Backstage at Louis Vuitton, just before 2:30 P.M., the show’s scheduled start time, a bevy of flamboyant teens—all glitzed-out, feathered-up microminis and euphorically frizzed ponytails—is lined up atop supersculptural platforms in what masquerades as precision, chatting, twisting handbag straps and shifting their scant weight from one foot to the other. Aside from their impatient, girlish [...]
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