2002 FashionUnited media archive

• Belgian Brantano buys 24 Brunswick stores
• Nakash brothers buy skyscrapers
• Nike second quarter profit rises
• What to wear for Christmas 2002?
• No style? Off to jail!
• End of the road for Thierry Mugler?
• Phillips-Van Heusen to buy Calvin Klein
• Gucci issues profit warning
• Adler into interior design
• Profit Marzotto Group falls considerably
• Benetton to sell Rollerblade brand
• Valentino goes sporty
• Converse goes public
• Brantano to merge with Mitiska
• Generous Inditex can afford it
• Kristin Scott Thomas stars in Armani campaign
• Shore To Shore receives safety award
• Partytime for Custo
• New Lauren swimwear licensee
• Skechers to launch Kids’apparelline
• Liz Claiborne to develop home collection
• Londencentral changes location
• Rocawear opens European showroom in the Netherlands
• Dior Homme Unveils New Jeans and Accessories
• Award for Ashworth
• Naomi new Rocawear model
• Esprit launches new sports collection
• Gap-stripes boost November sales
• Sales drop for Abercrombie & Fitch
• Samsonite reports Q3 loss
• Charming Shoppes reports results
• Lacroix designs Air France uniform
• DKNY’s joins anti-drug mission
• Chloe opens London store
• Benetton selects SAP
• Etam invests in software system
• Launch ‘Fruity’ underwear line
• Growing presence Aquascutum in Germany
• Moderate retail confidence
• Retailers beware!
• DRA develops new forecasting system
• Dewhirst closes final plant
• Profits fall deep for Allders
• New chief named for JJB Sports
• Helmut Lang to open new stores
• Elvis still inspires
• Fernanda Gattinoni dies
• New Look increases sales
• Celebrities join Levi's in fight against AIDS
• Quiksilver buys back licenses
• GUS buys Homebase; profits up 20%
• Foot Locker profits up; stock jumps
• Bartlett calls it quits
• Gap chairman retires
• Powerpuff Girls feature clothing line
• Apparel sales rise for Phillips-Van Heusen
• Sustainability congress was 'milestone'
• Cone Mills and Isko form IsKone
• First ever cybermodel search
• Burberry posts strong numbers
• Kennedy exhibit opens in Paris
• Slow economy little impact on women shoppers
• Dewhirst axes 420 jobs in Morocco move
• H&M rolls out in US
• PETA disrupts fashion show
  
• BRC welcomes Queen’s Speech
• Two battle for CK-fashion house
• BRC holds second Sustainability Conference
• Gap sales on the rise
• Venus Williams starts Design Company
• Cedella Marley starts clothes line
• Hilfiger launches men’s leather wear
• Ralph Lauren doing better than expected
• Shoe-sales drive up Adidas Q3-results
• H&M launch H&M detail-format
• Shami Ahmed Retains Elizabeth Emanuel's name by a legal deception
• Puma expects 50% sales growth for 2002
• Fashion photos in Design Museum
• Strong H1-results M&S
• Cahill clothing soon on line
• Amazon apparel site online
• YSL closes fashion house
• Discount line for struggling Levi’s
• Hilfiger forced to close 37 U.S. retail stores
• Profits rise for Blacks Leisure
• New sportswear enhances performance
• Nike concentrates on children apparel
• Cerruti opens store in Spain
• New system analyses shopping behaviour
• First Zara store in Switzerland
• Cheshire Clothing to launch own collection
• Double-digit sales for Q3 Russell
• Matalan meets forecasts
• Strong Q3 for Columbia
  
• Vögele pulls back from German Stock Exchange
• Sci-Fi add campaign O'Neill
• Skechers: Q3 good results, cautious for Q4
• Profit rise Reebok due to strong apparel sales
• Earnings triple at DuPont
• Boosted profits at Debenhams
• Italians in shock when Friars' tunics get pockets
• Inditex to launch Zara in Russia
• Marchon licensee for Coach Eyewear
• Fashion in Belfast
• Tough education at Japan Fashion College
• Fast Retailing hit by 46% profit slump
• Eureka! Tagless shirts
• Clothing prices steer UK inflation rate up
• Ralph Lauren to buy stake in Japan licence
• Tom Ford wins VH1/Vogue Award
• T-shirt raises money for war victims
• Argos sales grow 12%
• Burberry posts 15% profit for H1
• Bond girls to launch lingerie collection
• Beckham to promote make up
• Trend: Wearable computers
• Lycra targets breast cancer
• First Replay store in London
• Twiggy returns to catwalk
• Gap reports sales increase of 6%
• Brantano streamlines international campaign
• Welcome Q2 profit jump Nautica
• JJB Sports profit down
• Wool industry looking for new talent
• Kylie’s bra makes big money
• Marks&Spencer's stuns with Q2 results
• JJB Sports chief found hanged
• Nike launches line with organic cotton
• Barclay-brothers buy Littlewoods
• Bread&Butter moves to Berlin
• Zara to open doors in Sweden
• Former UK Cola-President moves to Gap
• Prices rose in September
• Uniqlo grows in UK, startup in China
• New Nike campaign celebrates women
• New Look makeover proves successful
• Baird loses big time
  
• Monsoon positive despite dip
• First London Textile Forum successful
• Aggressive expansion plans Wal-Mart
• Columbia presentation online
• Vita bases new factory in Texas
• Karen Millen moves into Germany
• Levi museum equals popularity Levi jeans
• Massive interest for Fashion Week-website
• London shop for Amaya Arzuaga
• Ecco plans profile boost on market
• Laura Ashley slids in the red
• Counterfeit clothing worth $553,614 seized
• Cone Mills re-affirms Q3 expectations
• DB07-gear success with kids
• Watch out Tommy!
• Vögele reconstructs management
• Textile leaders in agreement on future industry
• Strong numbers at Austin Reed
• Steve Madden behind bars
• Britain suffers most from shoplifting
• Uniqlo speeds up UK expansion
• Escada announces doubled sales by 2010
• Bid on minority share Harvey Nichols
• Forceful Esprit expansion in North America
• H&M reports strong growth
• Quiksilver launches shoe collection
• JCPenney produces first cotton wrinkle-free shirt
• Nike posted rise in Q1 earnings
• Fashion designers’ ideas protected by law
• Escada's to put Feraud up for sale
• Filodoro licensee for Max Mara and Benetton
• Benetton's sports unit boosts half-year results
• Vendex to conquer Europe
• London kicks off international fashion circuit
• HMKM renovates HN's swimwear department
• Dutch couturier into prêt-a-porter
  
• Strenesse cancels Milan show
• Disappointing net profit Vendex KBB
• Boosted retail sales in August
• Industry leaders to meet in Geneva
• DuPont inducted into American Textile Hall of Fame
• Benetton presents “Visions of hope”
• Inditex launches two new brands in France
• New H&M-store in Harlem, NY
• Burlington requests more reorganisation time
• Gap sales down 2%
• Klopman to open Tunis' plant
• US online clothing sales rise
• Jeager and Viyella up for sale
• M&S unveils sports wear range
• Boots are back in business
• Green ups takeover bid for Arcadia
• Deeper losses for Jill Sander
• Pollution directive hits textiles companies
• Spears makes worst-dressed list
• Linex closer to customer
• UK bra sales booming
• Beckham to market M&S boys fashion range
• VF Corp posted bid for Fila
• Harris Tweed producer up for sale
• Clothing manufacturer closes Wales plant
• El Corte Inglés sees another record year
• Target pulls back offensive prints
  
• Versace: "sales are improving"
• Reebok developed foldable trainers
• German Prénatal makes dramatic cut-back
• Pure & Premier huge succes
• Profits up for New Wave
• Eton opens first store
• Doughnut-shaped sole reduces shock
• Gearing up for New York Fashion Week
• New Harvey Nichols'store too popular for its own good
• Samsonite to open franchise-stores
• Accounting irregularities at Cutter & Buck
• Sales rise H&M
• Growth for Dutch Vendex
  
• Asda creates 2000 jobs in clothing division
• Underwear sales on the rise again
  
• Airstep focuses on Benelux
• Coming soon: Armani jewellery!
  
• New label for Ralph Lauren
• Sales up for Urban Outfitters
• Expanding numbers at Intertextile Shanghai
• Fila signs new licence agreements
• GAP-campaign "For every generation"
• Cheap jeans beat designer ones again
  
• CPD dictates trends for summer 2003
• Guess spiralled into loss
• Fila copes with huge Q2 loss
• Gucci made-to-order
• JJB Sport conquers Holland
• New fall line for Armani
• Maternity collection by Reebok
• Rising sales for Puma in Europe
• Small increase overall profit Vögele
• Spectacular sales rise for Columbia
• Tod’s sales going strong
• Levi's victorious in legal battle wirh Tesco
• Virginware wants you to Feel the music
• Graduate Fashion Week 2002
• Banana Moon bikini collection 2002
• Allders grossmargin to a 38 per cent
• AGOA: A Flash In The Pan?
• Shoe retailer Brantano reports more often
• Giorgio Armani to be named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
• Decrease in profits expected for Hugo Boss
• Interim Results Allders plc for the six months ended 31 March
• Marlboro Classics moves into Spain
• ESCADA completes sale of ESCADA Beauté Group to Wella
• Ermenegildo Zegna revenues up 8 per cent
• Vögele Board of Directors strengthened
• New corporate and retail identity for footwear brand Ravel
• Donna Karan stop on menswear collection
• Triumph launches World Cup bra
• Performance Apparel Markets
• Textile/clothing industry leaders in EU baffled
• Argos sells padded bras for young girls
• Sexy Ellesse ad banned by Council Chiefs
• FeveredDEVIANT's fishnets
• GUS to float Burberry by June
• World Apparel Market (WAM)
• Quick shoes introduces original Hurricane
• Marzotto acquires Valentino from HdP Group
• Cocktail Time: Y’rus Beach Cocktails: #31
• Kenzo Homme Spring/Summer 2002
• H&M beats expectations in first quarter
• Inditex to open 250 stores as profits rise
• Shore to Shore introduces shore-locko
• Levi Strauss Quarterly Sales Fall, Net Income Up
• Benetton's Playlife in orbit
• LVMH sees profits plunge with 99 percent
• Dawson's losses deepen
• Coats plc to close more US and European factories
• Gap Inc. Reports February Sales Down 8 Percent; Comparable Store Sales Down 17 Percent
• New "Matthew Williamson for Ballantyne" capsule collection
• IC Companys acquires Saint Tropez
• Japan's Fast Retailing Looks Set to Repeat its Success Story in the UK - and then China
• David Beckham's new contract with Marks & Spencer
• Gsus summer collection for women
• COMPANY RESULTS OF 18,0 MILLION EURO EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
• British Fashion wants some respect
• Gap Announces Commitments $1.3 Billion Toward Completion of New Bank Facility
• Robin Anson will be a guest speaker at Interstoff Asia Spring 2002
• The Ministerial declaration in Doha
• Tommy Hilfiger kid's and men's wear means trouble
• Columbia Sportswear repeats warning for 2002
• Arcadia ends talks with Baugur
• Allders stable performance
• Marks and Spencer returns two billion pounds
• Uniqlo begins national roll-out of UK stores
• Equity in international textile and clothing trade
• Fashion brand Turnover to open own stores
• Ted Baker posts sales increase
• Levi's profit drops 30 percent, closing facilities
• Yugoslavia: a low cost production opportunity for West European clothing firms
• 40º Moving Forward
• Dawson starts new cashmere brand
• Adidas appoints 180/TBWA as global agency network
• Berkshire Hathaway gets green light for Fruit of the Loom purchase
• Saks Inc. gets Laura Ashley license for North America
• Inditex’s net income increases by 31 percent
• Slimma completes integration Frank Usher
• Salomon Acquires Canadian Outdoor Specialist
• Mark & Spencer raises 331m. pounds from real estate
• FOSSIL to produce Burberry watches
• Saks Inc. gets Laura Ashley license for North America
• Inditex’s net income increases by 31 percent
• Slimma completes integration Frank Usher
• Salomon Acquires Canadian Outdoor Specialist
• Mark & Spencer raises 331m. pounds from real estate
• FOSSIL to produce Burberry watches
• First Ernest Hemingway fashion collection
• Austin Reed invests in London flagship store
• Supermarkets still offer labels for low prices
• JD Sports expansion continues
• EU Court rules in favour of Levi Strauss
• Donna Karan shows losses
• Inditex invests into logistics
• VF slashes 13,000 jobs
• Benetton Sales Rise, profits go down
• Benetton conquers the heart of Paris
• New UK men's wear fair
• Marks & Spencer posts 20 % profit rise
• Europe's textile and apparel industry feels compelled to refute the seriously misleading statement
• Shore to Shore expands into Spain and Holland
• Actif reports disappointing results
• CPDxsite ready to launch
• Fruit of the Loom sold to Warren Buffet
• Tommy Hilfiger profits rise
• Matalan sales slowdown
• Head Announces Formation of UK Subsidiary
• Shares Arcadia rise as a result of takeover bid
• Zara opening in Italy next spring
• EMTEX parent of Nadcat and Lencat
• MARKS & SPENCER LAUNCHES ENHANCED SHOPPING WEBSITE
• Jil Sander flagship opening in London postponed
• Polo Ralph Lauren sees weaker results
• 500 new jobs at Debenhams
• d2 Jeans mobile phone marketing
• Inditex opens Zara in Iceland
• Zara Owner Inditex Files For Stock Debut
• Reporter winter 2001/2002
• Carli Gry and InWear announce plans to merge: IC Companys A/S
• PARIZADEH IN USA
• Zazi Holland - for the girl in her
• T.R.P Jeans Collection Fall/Winter 2001

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