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May 20, 2013 12:01 AM

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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April 25, 2013 2:21 PM

Business

Judge Oing Knows But He Won't Say

By Alexandra Steigrad- Accessories News Editor / Legal Reporter

After two months listening to a small army of lawyers bicker back and forth over the sale of Martha Stewart-designed goods, it's safe to say that presiding Judge Jeffrey Oing has made up his mind on how he will rule.

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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 19, 2013 3:28 PM

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The Passionate Reader: March 19, 2013

By Lorna Koski

Patricia Volk's new book, "Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me" (Alfred A. Knopf), is a memoir about what she considers two of her biggest influences, her mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, and designer Elsa Schiaparelli, whose fragrance, Shocking de Schiaparelli, her mother wore.

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March 8, 2013 6:49 PM

Judge Oing's Battle Against Public Opinion in the Macy's Trial

By Alexandra Steigrad- Accessories News Editor / Legal Reporter

Three weeks of slogging down to 60 Centre Street to cover the Macy's versus Martha Stewart and J.C. Penney trial has got to make one think. It certainly has me thinking -- about the case, no doubt -- but also about the fanfare I've witnessed both in the courtroom and outside of it.

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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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