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Valli's Paris emporium, DVF does China, Gilt-edged friendship, eBay buys Brands4friends, Seamless Sabyasachi

Giambattista Valli Store, Paris | Source: Giambattista Valli
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Giambattista Valli: "True Luxury Is When Others Come To You" (Style.com)
"There's something about Giambattista Valli's clothes that is so fundamentally optimistic, they've got you at hello," said Style.com's Tim Blanks—and last week, the designer opened his first Paris boutique, in the centuries-old Galerie de la Madeleine."

Diane Von Furstenberg and China: A Perfect Fit? (NY Times)
"Today, there are roughly three dozen DVF boutiques worldwide, and she's extending her reach into China, with shops in Beijing and Shanghai...'I came for the first time in 1990. And I've always had this fantasy. I'd like to sell every Chinese a T-shirt.'"

When friendship and fashion equal success (Financial Times)
"When launching Gilt Groupe, an online shopping site that currently has 3m members, the co-founders did not trouble to write a traditional business plan. Instead Alexis Maybank, 35 and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, 33, took what they had learnt from Harvard Business School and bypassed the formality."

EBay to Buy Germany's Brands4friends (Bloomberg)
"EBay Inc., the largest e-commerce marketplace, agreed to buy brands4friends, Germany's biggest online shopping club, to increase fashion sales in Europe."

Seamless Sabya (Deccan Herald)
"His clothes are an extension of his personality — they're cheery, colourful and above all, exude a strong sense of Indianness. With his mantra being 'clothes are just extensions of one's intellect', B-town's favourite designer, Sabyasachi Mukherjee has proved his mettle in the business of fashion."

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