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WWD 09/06/2002

WWD 09/06/2002

Prada¿s Patrizio Bertelli: Tackling the Ocean Waves Once Again

Results Buoy L'Oréal Stock

PARIS - The French Bourse responded favorably to L'Oréal's first-half earnings results, which beat many analysts' expectations more than twofold. The beauty giant's stock closed Thursday at $74.01, up 5.8...
— Sep 6, 2002

Rite Aid to Emphasize Private Label

NEW YORK - When it comes to boosting front-end productivity, Rite Aid has its eyes on private label.

Company president and chief operating officer Mary Sammons, speaking at a retail conference sponsored by Goldman Sachs Wednesday, said...
— Sep 6, 2002

Revlon Branches Out

NEW YORK - Revlon is breaking into some new territory.

Already the leading marketer of beauty implements at mass, the company is now putting its name on a collection of artificial nails. In a partnership with Pacific World, which markets...
— Sep 6, 2002

Critical Mass: Marketers Turn Attention to Mature Women

SKILLMAN, N.J. - Now it is prime time.

The featured beauty products at an Eckerd here aren't bursting with glitter or bearing names to lure tweens. Instead, a prominent display in cosmetics touts a new line called Inner Splendor,...
— Sep 6, 2002

TOP NOTES

CAMERA-READY: Lancôme kicked off its first Primetime Emmy partnership Wednesday night by giving some 60 makeup artists, all members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a chance to order its latest products over cocktails at the Peninsula...
— Sep 6, 2002

Desert Spa to Target Sheik Set

NEW YORK - Beauty is about to get a taste of the Arabian Nights.

One of the most ambitious and lavish experiments in beauty retailing is on the drawing board in Kuwait. Sheik Majed Al-Sabah caught the stunned attention of the fashion...
— Sep 6, 2002

New Concept Aimed at Lackluster Salons

NEW YORK - Move over Aveda, concept salons aren't just for the big boys.

Pittsburgh native and salon owner Philip Pelusi is looking to grow his company, Studio of Elegance Inc., a 13-unit chain of Philip Pelusi salons in the Greater...
— Sep 6, 2002

All That Glitters for Fall

PARIS - Nice dresses. Pretty pictures. But where's the beef?

That's the lament of retailers, designers and advertising executives as they survey the evening dresses dominating the covers of September fashion magazines like...
— Sep 6, 2002

MEMO PAD

THE TIMES OF TINA: Tina Brown has found her post-Talk gig, and contrary to popular wisdom (aka the cottage industry of media reporters speculating about her next move) she won't be producing or starring in a talk show, or going into Hollywood....
— Sep 6, 2002

New Elements

NEW YORK - The newest product offerings from Aveda, left, and Prescriptives both play on new territory for their respective brands. Aveda's new Light Elements, a four-stockkeeping-unit hair care collection, offers weightless styling...
— Sep 6, 2002

Prada's Patrizio Bertelli: Tackling the Ocean Waves Once Again

MILAN - Patrizio Bertelli is giving it another try. No, it's not the stock market, it's the America's Cup yacht race.

Although his goal is to win, the Prada chief executive officer believes he is "starting from scratch"...
— Sep 6, 2002

Fashion Scoops: Seeing Red ... Where's the Beef? ... Ralph's New Hire ...

SEEING RED: Red is the new black at Vivienne Tam. The designer said Thursday she plans to launch a line of evening and special occasion dresses and separates for fall 2003. The new line will be referred to as the red label - Tam's...
— Sep 6, 2002

August Comps Rate a D+

NEW YORK - The once all-important back-to-school season has been sent to the back of the class.

While students were heading back to school, their parents, jittery about the war on terrorism and the shaky stock market, weren't...
— Sep 6, 2002

Wal-Mart: ‘No Fashion House'

By David Moin

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart a fashion house? Not in the eyes of its chief executive. It's more like the same house putting up a second story.

Lately, Wal-Mart has been getting recognition for its apparel upgrades, and...
— Sep 6, 2002

Weak U.S. Sales, Gucci

PARIS - Continuing softness in the U.S. and ongoing investments in Gucci Group NV contributed to an 8.1 percent decline in first-half operating income at Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, the diversified French retail group that controls 53 percent of...
— Sep 6, 2002

Clarification

Sandy Cataldo, former president of The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.'s Jane Cosmetics, has joined Bath & Body Works as senior vice president of emerging markets. Cataldo will be based in New York, but will also spend time in company headquarters...
— Sep 6, 2002

ATMI Asks Commerce

WASHINGTON - The American Textile Manufacturers Institute has asked Commerce Department officials to stem the flood of five textile product imports from China - the first such request filed under a special deal China made to secure its...
— Sep 6, 2002

Loulou de la Falaise To Open Paris House

PARIS - Dressed Thursday in an army jacket tossed nonchalantly over an orange silk blouse and black trousers, Loulou de la Falaise has always had a knack for mixing the basic with the unexpected - to surprising effect.

It's a...
— Sep 6, 2002

J.C. Penney's Catalog Makeover

By Rusty Williamson

DALLAS - J.C. Penney Co. has gone slicker, cleaner and smaller for Christmas.

The retailer has radically revamped its Christmas catalog, which is being mailed to more than 10 million customers this week. The...
— Sep 6, 2002

Bunstine and Kivimaki in Lawsuit

NEW YORK - Finnish-born couture wedding dress designer Ulla-Maija Kivimaki is hoping to learn during a Sept. 11 court hearing whether she has the right to use the phrase "Designed by Ulla Maija Kivimaki" on her creations, despite an ongoing...
— Sep 6, 2002

Family Reunion

"Back together," mused Carolina Herrera as she surveyed the crowd of her colleagues who piled into the cocktail party that Anna Wintour and Christina Johnson hosted at Saks Fifth Avenue, one of several magazine-centric parties around the city on...
— Sep 6, 2002

Venetian Vibes

VENICE - La Serenissima was a lot less serene than usual during the 59th annual Venice Film Festival. All week the taxi boats worked double-time as stars and industry heavyweights ferried between premieres on the Lido, parties in Venice and...
— Sep 6, 2002

Cole's Fragrance Duo Aims

NEW YORK - With the marketing of his new eponymous fragrance duo, designer Kenneth Cole is hoping to do well by doing good.

Cole, whose social conscience has been a part of his ads since the beginning, is continuing the tradition with the...
— Sep 6, 2002

Origins: Tea Time

NEW YORK - A Perfect World is about to get a little bit better.

Origins, which launched its A Perfect World franchise in fall 2001 with A Perfect World White Tea Skin Guardian, is adding an eye component in January with A Perfect World...
— Sep 6, 2002

Prescriptives Plans Reversal of Aging

NEW YORK - Prescriptives is out to help consumers turn back the clock with a quartet of age reversal skin care products.

Pamela Baxter, president of the specialty group worldwide for The Estée Lauder Cos., calls the line "a way to...
— Sep 6, 2002

Aveda: A Light Styling Approach

NEW YORK - Aveda is looking East for inspiration for one of its biggest-ever hair care launches.

The brand, which will begin to roll out the four-stockkeeping-unit Light Elements collection of lightweight and weightless styling products in...
— Sep 6, 2002

Vera Wang Hosts Rainbow Room Tribute to Sales Associates

NEW YORK - "Originally, this was going to be a little party in my apartment," said designer Vera Wang, who, to thank her Saks Fifth Avenue sales associates, threw a lavish party at the Rainbow Room Wednesday night.

Wang teamed up with her...
— Sep 6, 2002

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