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WWD 02/27/2007

WWD 02/27/2007

Gap Closing Forth & Towne

Gap Inc. will close its fledgling Forth & Towne division, and, while the closure will cost the group $40 million before taxes, it is just a baby step toward reviving the complex, $16 billion retail conglomerate.

Gap Punts on Forth & Towne

Gap Inc. will close its fledgling Forth & Towne division.
— Feb 27, 2007

Emerging Markets, Eco-Friendly Products Spur Premiere Vision

Mills exhibiting at the Première Vision textile show found that the market was being driven by two distinct and sometimes divergent consumer segments.
— Feb 27, 2007

Art, Jewelry Inspire Lace

Lace inspired by geometric jewelry and Art Deco motifs, along with matte finishes and neutrals were among the key trends for spring 2008 at Première Vision, with lace exhibitors citing solid orders.
— Feb 27, 2007

Amid Texworld Tweaks, Basics Still Rule

A change of venue marked the newest stage of development for Texworld.
— Feb 27, 2007

A Sixties Influence Among FIG Trends

Dresses, metallics, skinny denim jeans, bright geometric prints and anything with a Sixties' twist inspired buyers at Fashion Industry Gallery's recent market, as retailers rounded out their spring and summer buys and shopped some early fall collections.
— Feb 27, 2007

Travel Troubles Affect Crowd at Moda Manhattan

Blame the lull in traffic at Moda Manhattan's first February show on the Jet Blue Airways fiasco.
— Feb 27, 2007

Potential, Challenges for Russian Fashion

With near-evangelical fervor, Anna Lebsak-Kleimans preaches the potential of the Russian fashion industry.
— Feb 27, 2007

Captain's Table

Bernard Arnault clearly has an eye for diamonds in the rough: His acquisition
— Feb 27, 2007

Cracking the Code

The house of Dior may be synonymous with Parisian chic, but the seeds of the designer's creative consciousness can be found in a dwelling of the brick-and-mortar kind at Christian Dior's childhood home: Les Rhumbs, or Compass Rose, situated in...
— Feb 27, 2007

The Essentials

Christian Dior's thirst for all things new didn't stop at clothes: He even shook up the industry's traditional perception of fashion models.
— Feb 27, 2007

The Seamstress: Christine Platz

Seamstress Christine Platz spent almost four decades working under each of Christian Dior's successors, from Yves Saint Laurent to John Galliano.
— Feb 27, 2007

The Embroiderer: Lesage

Francois Lesage's first encounter with Christian Dior was as a teenager, when he would accompany his father to present embroidery samples at the house.
— Feb 27, 2007

The Muse: Mitzah Bricard

Christian Dior's cosmopolitan muse, the formidable Mitzah Bricard, has such a reputation that the house's current couturier, John Galliano, is in thrall to her mystique as described by Dior in his memoirs.
— Feb 27, 2007

Hair Today, Geisha Tomorrow

From real snakeskin glued onto eyebrows to tresses wound around shoehorns, Christian Dior's runway makeup and hair take a wild ride from extravagant to impoverished.
— Feb 27, 2007

The Beauty Pageant

Parfums Christian Dior is the pièce de résistance of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton's beauty portfolio.
— Feb 27, 2007

The American Way

In fewer than five years, Pamela Baxter and Terry Darland have turned Dior's North American beauty business from a staid and languishing assortment into a fashion-forward line.
— Feb 27, 2007

A Fine Vintage

The rarest vintage Christian Dior finds, according to Paris dealer Didier Ludot, are suits made from 1947 to 1949, estimated to be worth around $25,000.
— Feb 27, 2007

Carry On

Christian Dior's revolutionary and dramatic New Look didn't exactly cry out for a statement handbag.
— Feb 27, 2007

Fashion Diplomacy

Sixty years to the day since Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris, an exhibition documenting the designer's special and often surprising relationship with Germany opened at Berlin's Kunstbibliothek.
— Feb 27, 2007

In Dior's Galaxy

Screen icons like Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren are known to have been devotees, while loyal royals include Princess Grace and her daughter Princess Caroline, the Duchess of Windsor and Princess Diana.
— Feb 27, 2007

For the Boys

He Launched a haircut and made tight, low-slung jeans and skinny suits the epitome of cool, compelling a famous couturier (Karl Lagerfeld) to shed more than 90 pounds in order to shimmy into his spare, exacting threads.
— Feb 27, 2007

Tinker, Tailor

Men's wear existed at Dior long before Hedi Slimane. But it was a radically different business, founded on traditional tailoring and sporty outfits more fit for the yacht club than the dance club.
— Feb 27, 2007

Proceeding With Caution

Though not present, thrifty consumers were never far from the minds of attendees at two trade shows here last week.
— Feb 27, 2007

Brooklyn Industries Gets Artistic in "Southburg"

Brooklyn Industries, the indie spirit apparel label, has converted one of its facilities into a permanent contemporary art gallery with the hope of it eventually becoming an art institution or museum.
— Feb 27, 2007

Market Basket

Oscar de la Renta will be the VIP guest at Kent State University's annual student fashion show.
— Feb 27, 2007

Victoire de Castellane: Playing With Jewelry

Carnivorous plants, Cinderella's slippers and blood-seeking vampires might not be typical themes in the fine jewelry game, but since Victoire de Castellane arrived at Dior nine years ago, she's been busy shaking things up.
— Feb 27, 2007

Steering the Ship

Pop into the Christian Dior flagship on Avenue Montaigne in Paris on a Saturday afternoon, and you have a pretty good chance of running into Sidney Toledano, the fashion house's tireless and charismatic chief executive.
— Feb 27, 2007

The Retail Plan

Red and gray anyone? Last fall, Christian Dior christened a 3,650-square-foot unit in Moscow's GUM department store, facing the world-famous Red Square.
— Feb 27, 2007

Fantasy Island

From pirates to hobos, John Galliano's 10-year tenure at Dior has been filled with the fantastical while keeping the house mantra firmly in mind. By Miles Socha
— Feb 27, 2007

Ferre at the Fore

An Italian at the helm of a great French couture house? Mon Dieu! By Alessandra Ilari
— Feb 27, 2007

The Quiet Man

Marc Bohan is Dior's longest-tenured couturier to date.
— Feb 27, 2007

Assuming the Mantle

"Christian Dior was my master. The only one I recognize. I became his assistant at 18 and until his death, I shared his worktable. It was an incredible, moving exoiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Madame Gres. Still, each time I...
— Feb 27, 2007

Ten Years That Shook the World

"Monsieur Christian Dior, the stout and startled-looking grand vizier of the high-fashion Paris dressmakers, is the main reason most women look the way they do today," Collier's Weekly reported in 1955, eight years after the couturier set the fashion...
— Feb 27, 2007

Christian Dior's Little Dictionary of Fashion

Never one to mince his words on the subject of style, Christian Dior in 1954 released the house's "Little Dictionary of Fashion" littered with sartorial advice and the occasional acerbic gem. Here, some highlights:
— Feb 27, 2007

One Legend to Another

Pierre Cardin remembers Dior's first days. By Robert Murphy
— Feb 27, 2007

Nordstrom Profits Gain in Qtr., Year

Full-priced selling bolstered gross margins at Nordstrom Inc., leading to a 22 percent profit gain on a 14.6 sales increase for the fourth quarter.
— Feb 27, 2007

Strong Revenues Buoy Warnaco Net

Warnaco Group Inc. delivered robust fourth-quarter and full-year results that were boosted by the acquisition of Calvin Klein Jeans and related businesses in Europe and Asia.
— Feb 27, 2007

In Briefs

The Women's Jewelry Association will hold its fourth annual"Women in the Know"conference on March 17 at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Kate Murphy amphitheater.
— Feb 27, 2007

Claiborne to Close Mexx's U.S. Units

With a new chief executive officer, Liz Claiborne Inc. is beginning to re-examine its brand portfolio, and the first casualty has hit the floor - Mexx's U.S. business.
— Feb 27, 2007

C'est Magnifique

Welcome to Paris! The land where anything is possible in matters of la mode, including zapping the fashion-jaded out of their ho-hum doldrums.
— Feb 27, 2007

Kellwood to Discontinue Meister Sportswear

Kellwood Co. is eliminating David Mei­ster sportswear after this spring.
— Feb 27, 2007

Mellow Yellow

Where has all the suspense gone? As expected, Vanity Fair drew an enviable guest list to its post-Oscar bash at Morton's Sunday night, with the restaurant and tent teeming with types who don't need last names:
— Feb 27, 2007

Tiffany Stakeholder Seeks Better Results

Financier Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday that it wants to help Tiffany & Co. ramp up the luxury jeweler's performance.
— Feb 27, 2007

Gaultier Expanding With Store Openings

The enfant terrible of French fashion is out to become a terrific retailer.
— Feb 27, 2007

Lolita Lempicka Lifts Sales at Pacific Creation

Parfums Lolita Lem­picka has reason to celebrate. Among other good news, especially about sales performance, the brand turns 10 this year.
— Feb 27, 2007

Memo Pad: Bringing Sexy Back... Starring Role... Tyler, Two

Book publisher Assouline is a darling of the fashion world with its tomes on style, design and art and its chicly minimal stores. Now its admirers can hire it - and not for vanity projects.
— Feb 27, 2007

Fashion Scoops: Love Story... Double Life... Pressing on...

Chanel's efforts to stamp out counterfeiting extends into the celebrity realm - and its latest target is Courtney Love.
— Feb 27, 2007

Get Out the Checkbook

HAUTE COUTURE CONFECTIONS ARE TRADITIONALLY THE STUFF of fantasy and Christian Dior's made-to-measure collections certainly leave the house's clients misty-eyed and dreamy.

"It's [John Galliano's] ability to create...
— Feb 27, 2007

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