Month: November 2019

Even though the climate of caution is taking over the high street, it failed to take over fashion exhibition Pure London last week. Over 800 brands showcased their SS09 collections and exhibitors reported a confident mood among buyers and experienced strong orders from both existing and new customers. This season was the largest Pure London…

Spanish retailer Mango presented its new collections with Scarlett Johansson, Dree Hemingway, Mónica Cruz, and Moisés de la Renta attending the event. It was a showcase of the brands’ new ranges for the Spring-Summer 2010 season and was held in Madrid. Scarlett Johansson is the face of the brand, and Dree Hemingway also stars on…

Young fashion label Miss Sixty Miss Sixty is to close 10 of its 20 U.S. stores, including two in NYC, after its sales plummeted in the recession. Miss Sixty has entered administration, the U.K. equivalent of filing for bankruptcy, after losses of nearly $30 million in 2008. Last week, the brand closed its store in…

Ted Baker this week announced a 19.1 per cent increase in retail sales for the period 1 November 2009 to 24 December 2009, compared to the same period last year. Average retail square footage rose by 14.3 per cent over the period to 209,255 sq.ft. The UK continued to perform ahead of expectations during the…

Bravissimo, the UK lingerie retailer for bigger bras, has launched a new marketing campaign to target a younger generation of customers, underpinned by a new online social portal and Facebook app. The #AmazingYou campaign aims to improve the brand perception with younger audiences and inspire all women to recognise how amazing they really are, by…

They say history repeats itself and it’s hard to argue when looking at the events that have unfolded in this country over the past week. The Washington Nationals won the World Series and are scheduled to meet President Trump on Monday. The first time the Washington Nationals went to meet the president was in August…

WASHINGTON —  During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s servers, Manafort’s deputy told investigators during the special counsel’s Russia investigation. The unsubstantiated theory, advanced by President Trump even after he took office, would later help trigger the…

DES MOINES —  The Democrats of Iowa flooded noisily into Des Moines on Friday night as part of their unique role in choosing America’s presidential nominees. Most didn’t get what they wanted. The 13,000 who filled the local Wolves’ basketball arena, and thousands more who marched in freezing rain outside, were yearning for a replay of…

Any way you slice the numbers inside the latest reports on lobbying California’s state government, it’s clear that the influence industry is big business. And it’s getting bigger by the day. Interest groups spent an average of about $2 million every day the Legislature was in session this year on lobbying — adding up to…

The Clippers weren’t sure exactly what they had when they acquired center Montrezl Harrell, who was one of the many pieces they got from the Houston Rockets in exchange for Chris Paul in June 2017. They were so uncertain about what he could do that they considered waiving him. He wasn’t an automatic pick when…