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WWD 05/18/2007

Bucking the Trend: JCP, Nordstrom and Kohl's Bullish for Year

Innovation clearly pays off in retailing these days. Three of the most aggressive department store retailers in terms of new ideas all reported double-digit gains in first-quarter profits on Thursday and raised their guidance for the full year.

Bucking the Trend: JCP, Nordstrom and Kohl's Bullish for Year

Innovation clearly pays off in retailing these days.

— May 18, 2007

TSG Consumer Partners Makes Bid for Luxury Brands

Thirty-one floors above Fifth Avenue, and a stone's throw from a row of tony retailers - including Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel - the view from TSG Consumer Partners' new Manhattan headquarters offers a glittering reminder of the fund's mission:...

— May 18, 2007

Ascendia Broadens Bath and Body Offerings

Ascendia Brands Inc. is expanding its specialty bath items this fall, in addition to tweaking the Calgon and The Healing Garden brands.

— May 18, 2007

Gap Fills In Beauty Lineup With Two New Collections

The retailer is test-marketing its new Bath and Skin Collection in its 150 Gap Body stores, and will add a second scent line, Gap Body, in the same distribution in Augus.

— May 18, 2007

Narciso Does First Men's Scent

Narciso Rodriguez and his fragrance licensee Beaute Prestige International are gearing up to introduce the fashion designer's debut signature men's fragrance worldwide, starting this summer.

— May 18, 2007

Banana Republic: Discovering Scents

Banana Republic is adding two new fragrances to its bunch.

— May 18, 2007

Missoni Splashes Out With New Scent

Missoni is diving back into the fragrance market with Acqua, a new fragrance inspired by the Mediterranean Sea.

— May 18, 2007

Natural Skin Care Gets Nude

Natural skin care is about to get a whole lot sexier.

— May 18, 2007

Bourjois Plays Doctor With Lip Clinic

Bourjois isn't just paying lip service to consumers this spring.

— May 18, 2007

Kellwood Taps President for Hollywould

Six months after acquiring Hollywould, Kellwood Co. has brought in Laura N. Vazquez as president, a new post for the division.

— May 18, 2007

De Beers LV Inks Deal for S.F. Flagship

De Beers LV, the international jeweler and luxury diamond retailer, has signed a lease for a flagship at 185 Post Street in San Francisco's Union Square.

— May 18, 2007

Critical Mass: Beverage and Beauty

PepsiCo is thirsty for its share of the $1.8 billion (excluding Wal-Mart Stores Inc.) mass market skin care business.

— May 18, 2007

A Decade of R&D in Updated Range

In light of new technology addressing aging concerns, many items within the Kanebo Sensai Cellular Performance skin care range have been reformulated.

— May 18, 2007

Rembrandt Opens Pop-up Boutique

Rembrandt is putting its emotions on full display. The oral care brand, which is on a mission to evolve toothpaste from a commodity to an emotional purchase, will open the doors to a temporary New York boutique, designed as "a mini museum of the mouth."

— May 18, 2007

A Studied Look at Poiret

Cristobal Balenciaga was born 16 years after Paul Poiret and in another country, but the elder's influence on the other can't be denied.

— May 18, 2007

Coty Puts Twain in Spotlight With 2nd Scent

Coty Beauty is shining a spotlight on another side of country superstar Shania Twain this fall with the launch of her second perfume, Shania Starlight by Stetson.

— May 18, 2007

Natural Regulation Big Topic at LOHAS

The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability Conference here this week was a vivid example of the green movement crossing the tipping point:

— May 18, 2007

Sens. to Push President Bush On Structure of Trade Deals

Five senators, signaling their dissatisfaction with a compromise trade policy agreement, said they would push the Bush administration to include more accountability and stronger enforcement mechanisms in pending and future deals.

— May 18, 2007

Vukmirovic Planning Miami Boutique

Milan Vukmirovic, the former Jil Sander designer and onetime creative director for hip Paris store Colette, is jumping back into the retail game.

— May 18, 2007

Sigrid Olsen Gets New Management

Sigrid Olsen has gotten a management makeover from parent Liz Claiborne Inc. after lackluster performance.

— May 18, 2007

Permira Looks to Up Valentino Stake

Private equity firm Permira appears well placed to secure a majority stake in Valentino Fashion Group SpA.

— May 18, 2007

Claiborne Reiterates Focus on Product

William L. McComb hosted his first annual shareholders meeting not in Liz Claiborne Inc."s North Bergen, N.J., headquarters where it"s typically held, but at the Liz Claiborne brand showroom at 1441 Broadway here.

— May 18, 2007

Beauty Beat: Fila VP Of Sales

Fila USA has tapped Bruce Fendell as vice president of sales.

— May 18, 2007

Karl on Paris (Hilton), Plastics (Surgery) and L.A.

Karl Lagerfeld is ready to take another flight of fancy, this time California style.

— May 18, 2007

Fashion Scoops: Scent Of A Prince... Friends Not Neighbors... Jovovich-Hawk Does L.A...

It may not be a bottle of purple rain, but a new fragrance by musician Prince, called 3121, does come in an emerald-cut-diamond-shaped bottle with a purple hue.

— May 18, 2007

Ralph Fetes Moscow Flagship

"I feel like I'm an ambassador of America," enthused Ralph Lauren on Wednesday evening after he cut the ribbon of his first flagship.

— May 18, 2007

Maiden Voyage

Norah Jones sported looks by the storied fashion house for her on-screen debut in Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights," which opened at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night.

— May 18, 2007

Cannes Heat

Devon Aoki is working on a collection for Levi's, to be released in Asia next season, possibly followed by other territories.

— May 18, 2007

Memo Pad: Casting Call... Who's Counting... Styling Up...

Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter's love of Hollywood is about to undergo a new test: Jeff Bridges will play Carter, renamed Clayton Harding, in the film adaptation of onetime Vanity Fair contributor Toby Young's book.

— May 18, 2007

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Bucking the Trend: JCP, Nordstrom and Kohl's Bullish for Year

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