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WWD 05/16/2007

Rendezvous in Russia: Ralph Lauren Launches First Stores in Moscow

Just a few years ago Ralph Lauren considered this city, Russia's traffic-clogged epicenter of conspicuous consumption and rabid new-wealth oligarchs, unready for his understated American take on style.

M&A: Is Private Equity Losing Its Steam?

Private equity's domination of the retail mergers and acquisitions market may have an expiration date.

— May 16, 2007

Rendezvous in Russia: Ralph Lauren Launches First Stores in Moscow

Just a few years ago Ralph Lauren considered this city, Russia's traffic-clogged epicenter of conspicuous consumption and rabid new-wealth oligarchs,...

— May 16, 2007

Beatrice Anderson Voorheis, 66

Beatrice Anderson Voorheis, a longtime lingerie retailer and wholesaler, died Wednesday at her home in Claverack, N.Y. She was 66.

— May 16, 2007

Monthly Retail Apparel Prices Slip

Retail prices on women's apparel fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent in April compared with the previous month, but were 0.3 percent higher than a year ago.

— May 16, 2007

Fine Jewelry Propels Bulgari

Bulgari SpA posted higher-than-expected first-quarter figures, boosted by sales of fine jewelry and the recently relaunched Bulgari pour Femme fragrance.

— May 16, 2007

FAME, Moda Enjoy Record May

Buyers flush with higher budgets hit last week's Moda Manhattan and FAME trade shows, writing orders for fall knits, pants and, of course, dresses.

— May 16, 2007

Lambertson Truex's Retail Vision Becomes Reality

The luxurious, 2,000-square-foot space on Melrose Place here is retailing as Richard Lambertson and John Truex envision it, an oasis from gadgetry where sophisticated shoppers are treated as such.

— May 16, 2007

Zooey Seeks to Go Beyond T-shirts

Zooey, which Hartmarx Corp. acquired for $3 million in December, wants to be more than a high-end T-shirt brand.

— May 16, 2007

Twin Launch for Rodan vs Griffith

Rodan vs Griffith, a locally manufactured men's and women's apparel brand launched last week, has opened its first retail location here.

— May 16, 2007

More Luxe Coming to NorthPark

The luxury redevelopment of NorthPark Center here will move ahead in September with the debut of Giorgio Armani and Valentino stores.

— May 16, 2007

Beauty Beat: Linden Leaves Headed to U.S.

New Zealand-based bath, body and home care brand Linden Leaves is coming to America this spring, targeting high-end specialty stores, department stores and spas... Juicy Scent Hits Europe

— May 16, 2007

Zoom Boosts Beall's Web Sales

Online shopping conversion rates rose a whopping 50 percent, and even doubled in some categories, after beallsflorida.com added zoom capability.

— May 16, 2007

Clean Design Redefined

Silver and palladium are essential components within the Glitterati collection, but the eye won't detect their presence - or purpose.

— May 16, 2007

Shopping Online

Retailers are quickly embracing "Web 2.0" technologies popularized by such sites as MySpace and YouTube.

— May 16, 2007

Lead Valentino Suitors Emerge

Private equity fund Permira, along with Citigroup and Italian merchant bank Mediobanca, appeared to be in the lead to acquire a stake in Valentino Fashion Group.

— May 16, 2007

Wal-Mart Net Gains 8.1%

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday posted first-quarter results in line with Wall Street's expectations and sounded a warning bell that rising gas prices might impact second-quarter results, which could fall below consensus estimates.

— May 16, 2007

Security Costs Weigh on TJX

Discount retailer the TJX Cos. Inc. said Tuesday that first-quarter earnings fell 1 percent as costs related to a security breach of customer data weighed down results.

— May 16, 2007

In Brief: Perry Net Up... Tiffany Shines At Selfridges... Wrangler On The Road

Perry Ellis International preannounced first-quarter results Monday, saying it expects net income to rise 6.1 percent to $9.5 million, or 60 cents a diluted share, from $5.9 million, or 39 cents, in the same year-ago period.

— May 16, 2007

Dior's Grand Voyage

The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a spectacular showing of extravagance and audacity, John Galliano on Monday night took the notion that low-key and easy-breezy is the way to go for resort and tore it to shreds.

— May 16, 2007

Fashion Scoops: On Time... Kylie Minogue... Cameo Appearance...

Dior's first full-blown cruise runway show in New York kicked off relatively on time on Monday evening, and perhaps Charlize Theron helped.

— May 16, 2007

Barneys Said Near Deal for Space in Meatpacking District

Barneys New York is zeroing in on the Meatpacking District here.

— May 16, 2007

Limited Sells Majority Stake in Express

It's the end of an era for Leslie H. Wexner and the business he founded 24 years ago.

— May 16, 2007

Target Trade Suit Seeks Tariff Equality

Joining the effort to bring a sexual revolution of sorts to the U.S. tariff schedule, Target Corp. filed suit in the Court of International Trade to even out the duties charged on similar products for women and men.

— May 16, 2007

Charity and Fashion Mix at Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's and Chanel on Friday teamed up to raise awareness and money for the New York University Child Study Center, which is dedicated to improving prevention, identification and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.

— May 16, 2007

AAFA Image Awards Raise $930K for Boys & Girls Clubs of America

For a fashion party, Monday night's American Image Awards sounded an awful lot like a political gala.

— May 16, 2007

Memo Pad: Grand Send-Off... What's Next

Isabella Blow's funeral Tuesday in Gloucestershire, England, was as over the top as her style and friends said she would have loved it.

— May 16, 2007

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Rendezvous in Russia: Ralph Lauren Launches First Stores in Moscow

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