Vuitton CEO surprise, Web only no more, Instagram outrage, Vice buys i-D, Posen on Project Runway

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Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2012 | Source: Louis Vuitton

LVMH says Louis Vuitton CEO quits over ill health (Reuters) “Louis Vuitton’s new chief executive has quit suddenly from the helm of luxury group LVMH’s top brand because of health reasons, LVMH said on Tuesday. The world’s largest luxury company said Jordi Constans would be replaced by Michael Burke, chief executive since February of Bulgari, the Italian jeweller that LVMH added to its stable last

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Right direction, BCBG struggle, Behind the catwalk, Big Bucks at NYFW, Sarah Mower on London’s rise

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Derek Lam Autumn/Winter 2012 | Source: NY Times

Things Turn in the Right Direction (NY Times) “As if by agreement, or maybe decree by the empress herself, Diane Von Furstenberg, the dreariness that had settled over the first days of the fall shows vanished on Sunday with collections full of great clothes in vibrant colors… Zac Posen also sent out a good collection, rich in color, though stuck in a lady-as-a-vamp time warp.” BCBG’s Off-the-Runway Struggles (WSJ)

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The Fashion Trail | Holon Fashion Week

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Design Museum Holon | Photo: Meir Bar Asher

TEL AVIV, Israel — For people who live smack dab in the middle of the world’s most politically charged region, Israelis are a very warm and welcoming bunch, keen to show a side of the country that doesn’t make it into most international news reports. As is true for most places in the world, in order to understand Israel and its people, one really needs to visit the country and experience it first hand. So, I was extremely fortunate

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The Hermès culture, Marc and Vuitton, Sickness spreads in Cambodia H&M factory, Back to the 70s, Zac’s back

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Hermès silk printing table by Brigitte Lacomb | Source: WSJ

The Battle for Hermès (WSJ) “‘My job,’ says the lean, formal 44-year-old and sixth-generation descendant of the company’s founder, ‘is to keep the strong creativity of Hermès alive. To nourish the rigor and the vision . . . to make these values vibrate. ‘This,’ he says, ‘is the force of Hermès.’ Those values—the dedication to rigor, vision and creativity—are what set Hermès

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The Fashion Trail | BoF Breakfast Club

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BoF Breakfast Club at Norwood Club | Photo: Drew Innis

NEW YORK, United States — When I first met Rachel Shechtman at a Harvard Business School luxury goods conference back in 2007, we quickly learned that we had much in common. Since then, we have made a point of meeting for breakfast to catch-up and discuss the state of the industry whenever work brings me to New York City. It got us to thinking. With the non-stop madness of the fashion business, many of us don’t make the time

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