High Street King, Inditex profit rise, PPR invests, Top luxury buyers, Carolina Herrera

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Sir Philip Green by Ben Gurr | Source: The Times

Topshop’s Sir Philip Green: How he became king of the High Street (BBC News) “The moment Sir Philip Green finally ‘arrived’ was in the year 2000, when he bought the dowdy British Home Stores chain for £200m and rebranded it BHS. According to Stuart Lansley, his restless mind had spotted a beguiling new way to make money from the High Street…” Spain’s Inditex posts 27 pct rise in nine-month

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Highland Chanel, H&M recycling plan, ASOS on track, Material Wrld funding, Saskia de Brauw

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Chanel pre-fall, Linlithgow Palace | Source: Wallpaper*

Chanel’s Scottish Touch Warms Up the Scottish Highlands (IHT) “The Chanel show that Karl Lagerfeld put on last week at Linlithgow Palace, near Edinburgh, was spectacular in every sense of the word. The burning braziers, sending quivering light over old stone, and the dinner held in a tented space, arising like magic on the hillside, were outshone only by an exceptional collection.” H&M Launches First Global

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PPR buys Qeelin stake, Dover Street Market in NYC, Gilt in 2013, Faith in Brazil, Ostwald Helgason

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Tavi Gevinson | Source: Stylelikeu

PPR Aims to Buy More Chinese Brands After Adding Qeelin (BusinessWeek) “PPR bought a majority stake in Chinese jeweler Qeelin for an undisclosed price and said it is looking to make more acquisitions in the Asian nation to bolster growth in its largest market for high-end goods.” Dover Street Market heads to New York (Telegraph) “The store, which was masterminded by Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo, opened

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Week in Review | Saillard’s new genre, Design and Development basics, Market reassurance, Yang Li

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Week in Review December 3-7

The Creative Class | Olivier Saillard, Curator (The Creative Class) “No curator has succeeded in capturing the imagination of the international fashion community quite like Olivier Saillard, director of the Musée Galliera, whose convention-defying, contemporary performance-presentations are one of the highlights of Paris Fashion Week” The Basics | Part 5 – Design and Development (Education) “Everything you create

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Yogawear heats up, Prada seeks tax refund, Fast fashion graveyard, Feet first, Sarah Mower

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Philip Greene | Source: Elne

Once unique, Lululemon faces rivals on all sides (MSN Money) “When Lululemon Athletica Inc opened its first U.S. shop in 2003, its form-fitting yoga pants, free classes and Pacific Northwest vibe were a revelation to its new American customers. They had never seen another retailer like it. But time has caught up with the Vancouver-based retailer. Lululemon, closely watched by investors because of its meteoric rise, now faces

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