7 March, 2013
“You sometimes think, at the bleary end of a runway season, that fashion would be better off if companies didn’t have labels to sell. Take Saint Laurent. One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove ‘Yves’ from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power. But it was also a test of the label’s enduring appeal.”
“Australian tourists Erica Kim and Michael Cai walk out of Bicester Village outlet mall near London loaded down with purchases including Jimmy Choo boots, Bally shoes and a dress. They figure they’ve saved about 1,000 pounds ($1,500) compared with shopping at home.”
“Heads are rolling again at JCPenney. The flailing retailer — whose CEO, Ron Johnson, is now fighting for his own job — has fired 1,500 store-level department managers and merchandising positions across its chain, The Post has learned.”
“Aspiring entrepreneur Abigail Franklin began selling clothes from a truck because she was looking for a way to stay in one place… Drawn to the opportunity to keep startup costs low, they decided to take a chance on mobile retail, which was catching on in Nashville after starting a few years earlier on the West Coast.”
“It’s definitively established that in the Age of Instagram and Twitter metrics, it is possible to become pretty darn famous for omnipresence. Case in point: Michelle Harper, an eccentric and modish figure whose image over the last several years has seemed to be everywhere, in both real life and, possibly more important, in the parallel universe that is the Web.”
“Unlike low-end vintage stores, where the smell of mothballs often pervades a merchandising mishmash reminiscent of a yard sale, WilliamVintage is stringently edited. ‘All our pieces are cleaned to museum standard to remove any odors,’ Mr. Banks-Blaney said.”
