Loewe’s trajectory, Burberry rising, Vuitton’s top spot, Uniqlo expands, Prada and Polanski

| Daily Digest

Backstage at Loewe Fall/Winter 2012⎮Source: Wonderland Magazine

Spain’s got talent (Telegraph) “Stuart Vevers and Lisa Montague, the British duo who set Mulberry on the road to global superstardom, have taken their recipe to Loewe, the luxury heritage brand based in Madrid. Will it taste as sweet?” Burberry to invest in new, bigger stores (Reuters) “British luxury brand Burberry posted a 26 percent jump in profit as expected and said it would invest up to 200 million

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Is the Met Ball Becoming Fashion’s Biggest PR Platform?

| Intelligence

Beyonce Knowles makes her way up the Met Ball red carpet | Source: AP

NEW YORK, United States — Last night, and for the first time ever, red carpet arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala were live-streamed to the public on Vogue.com, Amazon.com and the museum’s own website, while viewers from across the globe were invited to participate via social media. As celebrities arrived at appointed times for their red-carpet rendez-vous, fashion watchers, bloggers and end

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Gender imbalance, Rising prices, DLF exits luxury, Bloomingdale’s in Canada, Helmut Lang

| Daily Digest

Diane von Furstenberg, Nadja Swarovski and the Swarovski award winners | Source: Style.com

Where Are the Women? (Style.com) “On the eve of the Costume Institute’s exhibition celebrating two pioneering female talents—Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada—Nicole Phelps asks why there aren’t more successful young women designers in New York.” LVMH Skips European Austerity Raising Prices for Chinese (Bloomberg) “Chinese tourists traveling to Europe to take advantage of savings as much as 50

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Leather forever, China momentum, Adidas profits to rise, Curator wears Prada, ‘It’ brand again

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Hermès winged saddle bag | Source: Glam

Wings of desire: 175 years of Hermès (Telegraph) “Fast-forward to now, and Hermès is the world’s best-regarded luxury company. The regard is reflected in its performance: last year, its profits rose 41 per cent to £495 million. Its exquisitely printed silk scarves are lusted after, but the cult of Hermès is predicated primarily on its handbags.” Slowdown in China? Not for luxury brands (CNN) “China’s

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Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season

| Fashion 2.0

NEW YORK, United States — What makes a successful fashion film? Is it a strong visual concept? Content that can be quickly parsed? A savvy distribution strategy? Humour? Provocation? A famous model or a catchy soundtrack? Creating compelling fashion videos has always been more art than science. But as we set about compiling our ranking of this season’s best films, we saw some interesting commonalities. While Cartier’s 3-minute CGI

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