Antwerp’s Fashion Rebels Get Serious About Business  (WSJ)
As fashion’s "anti-conformists," Belgian designers such as Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten are now commercial forces to be reckoned with.

Retailers Leave Baby Boomers Dry (Forbes)
Baby boomers are being neglected by retailers.

Gloomy Outlook for Beauty Industry (WWD)
Like the fashion industry, the fourth quarter outlook for the beauty business is bleak.

Retail Stocks Rise Thursday After Wall Street Bailout (WWD)
Yesterday, retail stocks went up due to the Congressional proposal of a $700 billion mortgage bailout, but today the fate of the support package up in the air as support for the bailout threatens to implode.

Dries Van Noten a/w ’08-’09, photo courtesy of driesvannoten.be.