Jewellery (jewelry)

Fourth-quarter profits at Alberto-Culver Co. almost quadrupled to $147.1 million, from $36.5 million a year ago, because of gains from the sale of its Cederroth International AB consumer products unit.
For the quarter ended Sept. 30, total earnings were $1.48 a diluted share, compared with 36 cents a year ago. The Melrose Park, Ill.-based firm [...]

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Peter Som and Bill Blass have agreed to part ways, ending the designer’s role as creative director of Bill Blass women’s wear.
Som left when his contract expired a week and a half ago, industry sources said.
“This was an extremely difficult decision for me,” Som said. “At this time, however, I have chosen to [...]

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MILAN — Prada has introduced a collection of bejeweled accessories and a limited edition line of costume jewelry.
After various projects aimed at piquing consumers’ interests, such as the Tricks gadgets and customized belts, the Italian fashion house has now turned its attention to totes, ballerinas and chain-strap shoulder bags and faux jewels with [...]

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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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The European beauty industry is waiting to exhale.
As stock exchanges all over the continent continue to seesaw, beauty executives are striving to get a clear picture of the impact the worldwide economic malaise will have on spending on beauty products, particularly in the run-up to the crucial holiday period.
Even before the weakening of the global [...]

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When Gina Drosos, P&G Beauty’s president of Global Personal Care, travels to the Middle East next week, she plans to make time — as she does each trip abroad — to visit with consumers in their homes.
It’s a known P&G habit. But rather than make a beeline for her hosts’ medicine cabinets, Drosos will ask [...]

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