An Offer for Jil Sander? (WWD)
Change Capital Partners, the owner of Jil Sander, may have received an offer from "Chinese investors."

Women’s fashion mags use premiums as weapons in war for customers (The Daily Yomiuri)
In Japan, fashion magazines are using more and more premium product giveaways in order to attract readers.

John Lewis sees sales decline further (FT)
At John Lewis, the privately held British chain of department stores, sales performance is in decline.

Stimulus Checks Fail To Spur Online Spending (Seeking Alpha)
In the U.S., online retail has been slow for the past two months even with the government issuing stimulus checks.

Jil Sander autumn ’08, photo courtesy of Jil Sander.