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WWD 08/21/2007

Their Day in Court: Bad Girls Turn Chic ¿ and Brands Get Buzz

Being bad never looked so good. Where once the path to the courthouse was viewed as the ultimate walk of shame, for a certain set it's now quickly becoming the ne plus ultra venue to make statement a style.

Their Day in Court: Bad Girls Turn Chic – and Brands Get Buzz

Being bad never looked so good. Where once the path to the courthouse was viewed as the ultimate walk of shame.

— Aug 21, 2007

John Belk, Built Retail Giant

John Montgomery Belk, who died Friday at 87, molded the family-owned Belk department store chain into a retail empire in the South.

— Aug 21, 2007

Badgley Mischka Goes Platinum With Dresses

Mark Badgley and James Mischka, who built their business with red-carpet eveningwear, are lightening things up with a daytime dress label.

— Aug 21, 2007

Fiandaca's Comeback Kid: Alexandra Lind Rose

After a three-year break, Alexandra Lind Rose is back on the scene designing a new signature collection for Fiandaca for women much like herself, who are busy with their work, social calendars and family lives

— Aug 21, 2007

J.Mendel's Russian Run

In October, Gilles Mendel aims to tap into Russia's estimated $720 million luxury goods market by opening a freestanding J.Mendel store in Moscow.

— Aug 21, 2007

Chicago's Retail Scene Gets Child-Friendly

If you build it, they will come. At least, that's what has happened in family-friendly neighborhoods here, where a flurry of new children's specialty stores have opened, enjoying enough success to give retailers ideas about expansion.

— Aug 21, 2007

Fashion Scoops: French Invasion... Latest In Target...

France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife, Cécilia, ruffled a few French feathers last May when they chose their inaugural wardrobe at Prada.

— Aug 21, 2007

Memo Pad: Taste Of The East... Still A Big Name... Laying An Egg?...

Wine in China tends to be of the 60-proof variety and, as for food, it's a nation where dog, jellyfish and a whole chicken - head included - are considered delicacies.

— Aug 21, 2007

Selling Art With Fashion in Tokyo

The roles of art galleries and specialty boutiques have always been clearly defined.

— Aug 21, 2007

Iceland's Sigurd Returns to N.Y.

Icelandic designer Steinunn Sigurd is making her U.S. debut this afternoon at Takashimaya in New York, and it's a homecoming, too.

— Aug 21, 2007

Théallet Keeps Light and Luxurious

Sophie Théallet knows a thing or two about luxurious craftsmanship.

— Aug 21, 2007

Blackstone Buys Majority of Indian Firm

The Blackstone Group is investing as much as $165 million to buy up to a 70.1 percent stake in Gokaldas Exports Inc.

— Aug 21, 2007

Levi's Adopts RFID in 40 Stores

Levi Strauss & Co. is rolling out radio frequency identification tags in 40 of its stores in Mexico to speed checkout and manage inventory. It is one of the largest deployments of the tags on sales-floor clothing.

— Aug 21, 2007

Exec Moves at Hampshire Group

Patrick Groenendaal has been appointed to the new post of vice president and creative director of Hampshire Group Ltd., the diversified women's and men's sweater company.

— Aug 21, 2007

In Brief: Nike Makes Moves... Abboud's Asian Deal...

Nike Inc. is shifting the heads of the Nike brand's two largest regional apparel businesses, which represent more than three-quarters of the group's almost $4.6 billion in global apparel revenues

— Aug 21, 2007

New Zealand Initiates Formaldehyde Investigation

New Zealand's Consumer Affairs Ministry said Monday that it launched an "urgent investigation" of apparel imports after the disclosure that as much as 900 times the safe level of formaldehyde was found in goods from China.

— Aug 21, 2007

New Book Looks at the People, Places Behind Denim

A search for the word denim on Amazon.com yields more than 26,000 books on the subject and most are either do-it-yourself manuals on how to style your own jeans or chronicles of the fabric's American roots.

— Aug 21, 2007

Brothers & Sisters

As far as celebrity turnouts go for Hamptons affairs, no event this season quite rivaled the Saturday night Cinema Society screening of "The Good Night," the debut film from Jake Paltrow.

— Aug 21, 2007

Beauty Beat: Borba Signs Pact With Anheuser-Busch... Boss' Take on Relationships... Cowshed Coming to London...

A week after Liberty Media Corp. announced it acquired a stake in the Borba skin care brand, the investment has gotten a little sweeter.

— Aug 21, 2007

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