Murjani divests Gucci, Luxury succumbs to cycle, Choo’s schools, New home for NYFW, Macy’s cuts staff

| Daily Digest

Gucci spring / summer '09

Murjani to divest Gucci stores in India (Economic Times) In an effort to recoup investments he’s made in the luxury sector, Mohan Murjani plans to divest the operations of Gucci in India. Luxury goods succumb to the cycle (FT) Despite some views to the contrary, the luxury industry is proving to be prone to cyclical ups and downs. Malaysian shoe guru Jimmy Choo plans teaching academies (Yahoo) “Malaysian-born luxury

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British Fashion Awards | Open for business?

International | London

LONDON, United Kingdom – Yesterday evening’s British Fashion Awards ceremony was a wonderful occasion to celebrate the best in British Fashion Talent. There was a very impressive list of awards categories and an even more impressive list of winners, but I couldn’t fight this nagging feeling that something was missing. Then, I realised that there was not even one award to acknowledge the various talented business

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BoF Exclusive | Tell-all Jimmy Choo book in March 2009

| Intelligence

We love leaks. The Business of Fashion has an exclusive first look at the new Jimmy Choo book to be published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US in March 2009, entitled “The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits and Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe.” Lauren Goldstein Crowe, a fashion and business journalist, and Sagra Maceira de Rosen, head of the Luxury & Retail division of Reig Capital

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