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May 20, 2013 12:01 AM

Business

All About the Shoes and the Bag

Sometime in the early Aughts, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears WWD business reporter, a colleague replied to some silly thing I'd said by looking aghast and asking, "Don't you know? Fashion is all about the shoes and the bag."

The shoes and the bag.

I didn't know then how right she was, in both sartorial and business terms.

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May 3, 2013 5:17 PM

Business, Retail

Strong Words, Fashion Lets It Fly

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Every once in a great while the fashion industry hits a sleepy patch and a week passes when nobody says much of anything -- at least in a public forum that we can scrutinize.

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March 26, 2013 2:45 PM

Business

Girl Scouts: Geniuses of Scarcity

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

I am a complete and absolute sucker for Thin Mints.

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March 8, 2013 5:30 PM

The Big-Time Buyout Rumor Is Back

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Investors are ready to believe again -- if only for a moment -- in the big-time buyout rumor.

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February 11, 2013 3:32 PM

Business

Companies Need to Talk Like People

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

I was waiting at a restaurant recently and following the up-to-the-second fashion week news on Twitter when my incoming tweets slowed to a crawl and then stopped.

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February 1, 2013 3:23 PM

Retailers Are Losing the Consumer's Time

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Brands spend millions trying to win consumer's hearts, minds and pocket books, but they're losing the battle for their time -- her time in particular.

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January 28, 2013 2:23 PM

Business

A New Course for J.C. Penney?

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Just before William Ackman squared off with Carl Icahn on CNBC last week -- in which the two activist investors engaged in a surprisingly personal round of verbal fisticuffs, ostensibly over direct merchant Herbalife -- Ackman hinted at things to come at one of his biggest investments, J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

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January 14, 2013 10:51 AM

Goodbye to Managers and Saint Midnight?

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

There was a subtly delicious moment at the WWD CEO Summit this week when business professor Gary Hamel told a room full of high-powered managers that, in the future, managers wouldn't be needed.

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January 7, 2013 12:01 AM

Business

A Clean Slate, but the Same Story?

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

The New Year arrives with a relatively clean slate for fashion.

The Burches have buried the hatchet, fresh faces are in place and finding their footing at Saint Laurent and Christian Dior and changes to the U.S. tax code helped push through a number of deals that had been lingering.

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December 18, 2012 2:50 PM

Tumbling Over the Cliff

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

The fiscal cliff is kind of a sham, and everyone should be tired and ashamed of it.

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