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WWD 10/19/2007

WWD 10/19/2007

Ann Taylor's New Beauty: Enters Category to Help Reignite Growth

Along with several other growth initiatives on the drawing boards, AnnTaylor Stores Corp. now sees the beauty business as a major opportunity. Perhaps that's why its upcoming fragrance is called Possibilities.

NRDC Ups Buying Power With IPO

NRDC Equity Partners, parent of Lord & Taylor, has formed NRDC Acquisition Corp. to raise $360 million for the possible purchase of one or more operating...
— Oct 19, 2007

Ann Taylor's New Beauty: Enters Category to Help Reignite Growth

Along with several other growth initiatives on the drawing boards, AnnTaylor Stores Corp. now sees the beauty business as a major opportunity. Perhaps...
— Oct 19, 2007

It's Bath Time for Sephora

Sephora's bath line is bubbling up at retail. The retailer is relaunching its eponymous bath and body collection this month, with six products each available in seven scent variations.
— Oct 19, 2007

Pulling Up Boots: Chain Adds Premium Twist

Boots the Chemists is polishing up its beauty offer. The Nottingham, England-based health and beauty retailer this month inaugurated Boots Premium Beauty Concept, an assisted self-service format that includes prestige and niche brands and services.
— Oct 19, 2007

Hutton Eyes Retail

Lauren Hutton, wild-haired, barefoot and wearing an unbuttoned oxford shirt that exposes a white tank top, is carrying a watermelon to the garden of her Venice, Calif., home just blocks from the ocean.
— Oct 19, 2007

A Brush With Comfort

Annoyed by uncomfortable makeup brushes, makeup artist Billy Brasfield decided to craft ideal ones - without protracted handles or excess ounces - for his own use.
— Oct 19, 2007

Wal-Mart Revives Price-Cut Strategy

Under pressure from Wall Street and hungry for a big win at holiday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is signaling it will focus on prices.
— Oct 19, 2007

House Bill: Duty Free Imports for Poor Nations

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday that would give duty free treatment to imports from the world's poorest countries, a move opposed by the U.S. textile industry.
— Oct 19, 2007

Adding Up Beauty: Investment Banking Firm Demeter Group to Focus on Beauty

In recent years, shoppers have embarked on a mad dash to discover emerging beauty brands, as they look beyond department stores to specialty shops, TV and the Internet for new lines.
— Oct 19, 2007

Le Mystere Creates Skin Care

Le Mystere LLC, the upscale lingerie marketer, has entered the beauty game. The firm introduced late last month a line of four skin care products called Le Mystere Skin at Bloomingdale's 59th Street location.
— Oct 19, 2007

Snippets: Origins Move... Avon Celebrates Cancer Survivors...

Origins has named Maleka Dattu senior vice president and general manager of Origins North America, a newly created position.
— Oct 19, 2007

Making Faces

The always-surprising Thierry Mugler is about to step into the combative arena of makeup marketing with a cosmetics and fragrance line called Dare the Metamorphosis, which is based on the designer's belief that people can sculpt new identities with...
— Oct 19, 2007

Nestle Considers Selling L'Oreal Stake

Nestle could sell its 27.89% stake in L'Oreal in 2009, once its agreement with the French beauty giant expires in April of that year, NestlE CEO Peter Brabeck said Thursday.
— Oct 19, 2007

China's Golden Weeks Credited With Driving Consumption

Consumption is expanding in China, at least according to the retail figures from the recently concluded National Day holiday.
— Oct 19, 2007

In Brief: Nike In Sale-Leaseback Plan... McCreight Appointment

Nike Inc. is partnering with real estate firm CB Richard Ellis in a sale-leaseback of its Cole Haan and Nike Bauer facilities in Yarmouth, Maine, and Greenland, N.H.
— Oct 19, 2007

Behind the Groove

It's one in the morning on a school night, but you'd never know it at Webster Hall. House music blares as gay black men vogue on a makeshift runway.
— Oct 19, 2007

Showing Who's Boss in Manhattan

Rather than get lost in the melee of fashion weeks in New York, Milan, London or Paris, Hugo Boss preferred to wait until the fashion crowd had taken a breather and pulled together an event for 1,000...
— Oct 19, 2007

Saks' Pink Rink for the Cure

"This is just beautiful, look up," said Suzanne Johnson, general manager of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship. "And look at the ice. It's all pink." So what if her feet were cold.
— Oct 19, 2007

Clarins Sales Up 8 Percent in 3rd Quarter

Driven by sustained growth in its beauty division, gains in its fragrance branch and recovery of orders in the U.S., Groupe Clarins posted third-quarter 2007 sales of 231.8 million euros, or $318.5 million at average exchange, up 8 percent on the same...
— Oct 19, 2007

Stella McCartney's at Barneys, Naturally

Stella McCartney is bringing a "green" collection exclusively to Barneys New York. The specialty retailer asked the designer, who has famously renounced meat and leather, to create the line.
— Oct 19, 2007

Prada Said Nearing Pick of IPO Bankers

It looks like Prada SpA is getting closer to carrying out its oft-postponed IPO. Speculation here is rife the company is about to name its lead bankers for the IPO, which is expected to take place sometime next year.
— Oct 19, 2007

ABC Carpet Hosts Eco-friendly Fashions

Held in ABC Carpet & Home, the eco-friendly "FutureFashion" show Wednesday included looks from 12 designer lines such as Halston, Peter Som, Daryl K, and Oscar de la Renta.
— Oct 19, 2007

VF Net Rises, Revenues Top $2B

Booming sales in its outdoor division and a revenue bump from the newly formed contemporary brands segment lifted earnings for VF Corp. in the third quarter and pushed revenues beyond $2 billion.
— Oct 19, 2007

New York & Co. Drops Concept

New York & Co. Inc. said Thursday that it will discontinue the faltering JasmineSola concept to focus on higher return opportunities.
— Oct 19, 2007

Fashion Scoops: Points East... Honoring Galanos... Starry Night...

No Forbidden City for him. Karl Lagerfeld had his nose to many grindstones in Beijing on Thursday, not only conducting a massive, international casting call for his Fendi show tonight on the Great Wall of China...
— Oct 19, 2007

Memo Pad: Back Again - Twice... Back to Base... Thanks - and We Aren't A Dinosaur...

Reports of Vogue Living's death may have been exaggerated - or at least premature. The Vogue shelter spin-off, downgraded last year to a "13th issue," appears this week for the second time...
— Oct 19, 2007

Black on Black

While Cathie Black's new book on getting ahead at work and in life is called "Basic Black," her shoe sensibility runs contrary to the title. The president of Hearst Magazines prefers footwear with flair, since shoes, more so than a colorful jacket or...
— Oct 19, 2007

Cartier Doubles Size in Move to NorthPark

Cartier has moved to a larger space in a new neighborhood and expectations are high. The luxury jeweler opened a 2,500-square-foot store this month at NorthPark Center here that is double the size and inventory of its previous location at Galleria Dallas.
— Oct 19, 2007

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