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WWD 08/02/2007

Highest-Paid Vendors: Ralph Lauren Is No.1, Earning $25.9M in '06

Ralph Lauren is tops once again. The chairman and chief executive office of Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. ranked as the highest-paid executive of an American vendor in 2006, with a $25.9M pay package. He topped the list for the third year in a row.

Highest-Paid Vendors: Ralph Lauren Is No. 1, Earning $25.9M in '06.

Ralph Lauren is tops once again.

— Aug 2, 2007

Sean John Gives Women's Wear Another Try

Sean "Diddy" Combs isn't giving up on women. The hip-hop mogul is in the news for his personal drama with ex-girlfriend Kim Porter, and his company Sean John has had difficulties in women's apparel in the past.

— Aug 2, 2007

Denim Dish: Express Turns to Web For Fall Style Search

Express wants to energize the back-to-school denim rush by offering customers the chance to become professional stylists for a day.

— Aug 2, 2007

Denim Dish: Farmer Jeans Plants First Retail Seed in Los Angeles

When denim company Farmer Jeans went hunting for space in Los Angeles to open its first store, the company veered away from the city's tony Westside areas where premium denim companies such as Paige Premium Denim and AG Adriano Goldschmied launched...

— Aug 2, 2007

Denim Dish: Pucci, Seven For All Mankind Partner

When a fashion brand like Emilio Pucci joins forces with premium denim maker Seven For All Mankind, a crystal ball probably isn't needed to guess the outcome - colored jeans.

— Aug 2, 2007

Sizing Up Swim

Sensing a mounting demand for D-cup swimwear, Raj Manufacturing last year retooled its Next by Athena brand to offer up to a D cup in lingerie-style sizing.

— Aug 2, 2007

Speech Therapy

It wouldn't be unreasonable to think director-writer Jeffrey Blitz suffers from some kind of verbal fixation.

— Aug 2, 2007

Leg Work

New York Fashion Week is still over a month away, but catwalk favorite Hana Soukupova has been putting her endless gams on overdrive this summer.

— Aug 2, 2007

Sweet Smell of Success

Young Hollywood has developed a thing for a certain white powder, though this time it's not the sort landing starlets on tabloid covers and in court.

— Aug 2, 2007

Beauty Beat: Avon Names Witherspoon Spokeswoman... Inter Parfums SA Buys Lanvin Division... True Religion to Expand Into Scents

Reese Witherspoon is going global with Avon Products Inc.

— Aug 2, 2007

Subkoff Plans to Sell Imitation of Christ

Imitation of Christ founder Tara Subkoff is seeking to sell the label to pair the manufacturing, advertising and distribution expertise of a strategic partner with her design talents.

— Aug 2, 2007

Burberry Exec Tapped To Lead Georg Jensen

Ulrik Garde Due, a senior vice president at Burberry Ltd., has been named as chief executive officer of Georg Jensen and will take up his post Nov. 1.

— Aug 2, 2007

In Brief: New Trade Bill... Global Brands Group Hire... A Sweet Move...

Sens. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) introduced an omnibus bill Wednesday designed to strengthen U.S. enforcement of trade agreements and use of domestic trade remedy laws.

— Aug 2, 2007

Emporio Armani to Launch E-commerce Site in U.S.

Giorgio Armani is known to be tireless and hands-on about building his business. However, there is one store opening the designer will have to miss - the reproduction of his Via Manzoni megastore in Second Life.

— Aug 2, 2007

Jones Apparel Posts $47.1M Loss in Qtr.

Jones Apparel Group said its board agreed that Fast Retailing Co. Ltd.'s $900 million cash offer for Barneys New York was superior to a previously accepted bid from Dubai-based Istithmar.

— Aug 2, 2007

Fashion Scoops: Dressing Like J.Lo... Working The Mall...

Many a fan would love to spend a day in Jennifer Lopez's shoes, let alone her dress or her jewelry.

— Aug 2, 2007

The Boys' Club

Top vendor executives ranked by the values of their annual compensation packages in 2006.

— Aug 2, 2007

Memo Pad: Building Trust... Camera Ready... Growing but Shrinking...

Maybe all the celebrities were taken for Conde Nast's "Point of Passion" campaign.

— Aug 2, 2007

Bill Blass in Deal to Do Fur

Peter Som, newly minted creative director of women's at Bill Blass, already has another category to sink his teeth into.

— Aug 2, 2007

G-III Apparel Adds Ellen Tracy License

Seeking to expand a portfolio that includes Guess, Cole Haan and Kenneth Cole, G-III Apparel Group Ltd. has signed a licensing deal with bridge brand Ellen Tracy to produce women's suits and dresses.

— Aug 2, 2007

Mommy and Me

In what is proving to be a fun niche in the swim industry, more designers are fashioning mother-daughter swimwear, tapping into what they say is a trend that had its genesis in street clothes and T-shirts, but has since overlapped into all categories.

— Aug 2, 2007

Senate Committee Passes Bill Targeting China Manipulation

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would pressure China to raise the value of its currency by giving the Treasury Department more leeway in finding China guilty of currency manipulation.

— Aug 2, 2007

Urban Brands Taps New President

Urban Brands Inc. on Wednesday named Steve Newman, former president of Brooks Brothers and Eddie Bauer, to be president of the women's specialty apparel chain.

— Aug 2, 2007

Earnest's Perennial Pop-up

A pop-up store is, by its very nature, temporary. Earnest Sewn, however, has made the transitory concept a permanent feature of its An Earnest Cut & Sew store at 821 Washington Street in the Meatpacking District.

— Aug 2, 2007

Lane Crawford Expanding in China

Hong Kong retailer Lane Crawford is charging into Mainland China.

— Aug 2, 2007

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