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		<title>The Fashion Trail &#124; 36 Hours in Qatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DOHA, Qatar — Just before the madness of fashion week season began, I couldn’t resist accepting an invitation from Lama El Moatessem to visit Doha, the capital city of the tiny nation of Qatar, to attend the opening of the Peter Marino-designed flagship for Toujouri, Ms El Moatessem’s three year old fashion brand. How did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BoF Exclusive &#124; Italo Zucchelli&#8217;s Sublime Futurism — Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Part I, we examined Italo Zucchelli’s philosophy of menswear. Today, we explore the designer’s creative process and approach to innovation. NEW YORK, United States — A honeyed accent doesn’t give away Italo Zucchelli’s heritage as much as his ability to cut a jacket. A Wagnerian sense of color and experimental materials reveal professional stints with both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BoF Exclusive &#124; Italo Zucchelli&#8217;s Sublime Futurism — Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive two part interview, courtesy of our friends at 032c, Pierre Alexandre de Looz explores the work of Italo Zucchelli, Calvin Klein men’s collection creative director, known for grafting the infallible promise of technology — the 21st century’s cultural hope — to the fibre of masculine elegance. Today, in Part I, we examine Zucchelli’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/02/bof-exclusive-italo-zucchellis-sublime-futurism-%e2%80%94-part-i.html</link>
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		<title>Market Pulse &#124; Throwing Caution to the Wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON, United Kingdom — It&#8217;s been a strong start to 2012 for the luxury good sector, as equity markets made significant gains in January. Big news The Savigny Luxury Index (‘SLI’) outperformed the benchmark MSCI World Index (‘MSCI’) by 6 percentage points, gaining 11 percent over the month of January, relative to an increase of close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Briefing &#124; Behind the Flurry of Store Openings in Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SYDNEY, Australia — 2011 was an extremely busy year for luxury retail expansion in Australia. In April, Burberry opened a new flagship on Sydney’s George Street. In July, Prada and Miu Miu opened flagships in Sydney&#8217;s Westfield  shopping mall, where Gucci also opened its own two-level emporium in November. Then, in a dramatic end-of-year crescendo, Louis Vuitton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/01/global-briefing-behind-the-flurry-of-store-openings-in-australia.html</link>
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		<title>The Fashion Trail &#124; Unravelling Brazil&#8217;s Luxury Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Arriving in Rio de Janeiro in the middle of the Brazilian summer, in a country experiencing an ongoing economic boom, certainly puts the bleak, uncertain economic outlook of wintry Europe and North America into sharp relief. I was invited to Brazil on the generous invitation of ABIT, the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/01/the-fashion-trail-unravelling-brazils-luxury-market.html</link>
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		<title>The Creative Class &#124; Bandana Tewari</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PARIS, France — Bandana Tewari has made a name for herself as one of the fashion industry&#8217;s smartest commentators. As fashion features director of Vogue India, she has quickly become the go-to source for anyone who wants to learn about the country&#8217;s rapidly evolving luxury market. Recently, she was named to Industrie magazine&#8217;s Fashion Media A-list, alongside other leading fashion commentators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/01/the-creative-class-bandana-tewari.html</link>
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		<title>Elevator Pitch &#124; Call for Submissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our final post in a week of articles on e-commerce innovation, we are pleased to launch Elevator Pitch, a recurring feature on BoF that will showcase one exceptional fashion-technology start-up per month and provide valuable feedback from a panel of fashion, technology and investment experts, as well as the BoF community. LONDON, United Kingdom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/01/elevator-pitch-call-for-submissions.html</link>
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		<title>E-Commerce Week &#124; The Rise of New Business Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Part I, we examined the innovations and infrastructural advances that have improved the historically poor economics of e-commerce and set the stage for a renaissance in online retail. Today, we explore some of new and exciting business models taking shape, the companies exploiting them and the challenges they face. SAN FRANCISCO, United States — For years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/01/e-commerce-week-the-rise-of-new-business-models.html</link>
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		<title>E-Commerce Week &#124; The Stage is Set for an E-Commerce Explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, BoF was first to bring you the news of the recent $18 million investment in Farfetch.com. Today, we continue a week focused on e-commerce by examining the historical challenges faced by online retailers and how recent innovations and infrastructural advances have fundamentally improved the economics of e-commerce, setting the stage for a renaissance in [...]]]></description>
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