Fashion News - December 2004

• Hardie Amies to produce men's collection
• FSA Warns Retailers To Report Sales Downturn
• Tesco & Asda big in Europe
• Launch EU Tech Platform for Textiles and Clothing
• Diesel on the catwalk
• Barneys acquisition complete
• Hardy Amies IPO
• Calvin Klein sued
• Walker's winner
• Designer bags a-go-go
• First commercial in-store TV channel
• Pretty Ballerina
• Moss painting worth millions
• Indian Fashion Week
• Valentino control in Japan
• Berghaus new management
• Primark interested in Allders?
• Otis Ferry cautioned by French Connection
• New Look revamps flagship
• UK Travellers Avid Shoppers
• Late night shopping disappointing
• Shopping Centres Report Record-Breaking Trading
• Hot ticket
• Sixty appoints manager Asia
• New designers alert
• Boss, Movado license agreement
• First Lesbian Label
• BLC offers shoe testing
• Sunrise saves money through ERP
• Benetton Bites Back
• Mulberry Rush
• Pound may gain with increased retail sales
• Quota-free retail industry
• JD Acquires RD Scott
• Slimma reports disappointing results
• Claiborne sells Kenneth Cole stake
• H&M sales are up
• Park-a-Punch
• Picky Designers
• Cleavage busters
• Benetton PETA target
• Gucci Reveals Strategy
• Retailers Should Wait With Early Sales
• Get ready for the sales
• Benetton Photographer In-Mates Exhibition
• Prada's High-Tech Misstep
• Faith Sold For £64m
• Armani Prive
• Osbourne fashions
• Gucci defections
• BCBG capitalises on trademark
• Lenny and Tom
• Mulberry predicts sales increase
• Wearing my religion
• New Gucci CEO To Reveal Strategy
• Pump action
• Versace Mansion Gets Makeover
• Why keep the Faith?
• Christmas sales boom
• Hunting Dress: The Epitome Of Style
• Fashion Icon 2004
• Fashion Chavaganza
• Sephora to close down
• Burberry Moves Into Profit
• Bag it
• Keep warm with Rodnik
• LK Bennett for sale
• Hilfiger's Christmas Purchase
• Allders For Sale
• Joy Plans For Revamp
• Bullring wins BCSC award
• Philip Green top high street influence
• Lulu Guinness opens online store
• Fur Peta's Sake!
• EU to drop punitive tariffs
• Vivaladiva.com
• Office reports profit rise
• Pierre Cardin for sale
• Lagerfeld a hit in Japan
• Designer tree
• Expanding Joy
• BRC Announce Fall In Sales
• Marchpole expands in Korea
• Gap authorises share buyback
• Boots best site
• LVMH to double in sales
• Retailers expect sales lift
• Who's your Daddy?
• Designer Teens
• Don't mess with Mama
• Hobbs to bid for LK Bennett
• Fat Face consider sale options
• Fashion For World Aids Day Charity
• Men love their brooches
• Armani Goes For Couture
• Tough market for Gap
• M&S Continues Pre-Christmas Web Sale
• Madonna gets 4.5m for Versace ad
• Austin Reed chief heads for Tesco
• Joseph for sale
• Green Baby Signs With Tesco
• Moore designer t-shirts
• Gucci's reigning star
• Fashion's Boy Friday
• Furla opens in Russia
• PETA bans merino wool
• Internet shopping up to 15 per cent of total
• Walmart US to cut prices
• Beauty versus Bill
• Beyonce in wardrobe crisis
• Bigger Is Better At Chanel
• Madonna new face of Versace
• Indian textile growth
• Geox shares popular
• UK's Best Dressed
• Twin Talent
• Star-struck Stefani
• Asian lap of luxury
• PPR focuses on luxury
• Prada Delays Flotation
• Talk Too Soon Of Christmas Crisis
• Posh Prefers Fashion

Fashion News - November 2004

• From hats to hotels
• Made to order
• London Denim goes Italian
• Sander and Lang for sale
• Braccialini enters UK
• Versace rumours
• Sonja Nuttall To Front Jil Sander
• Markets Open For Sportswear
• Burberry Check Sees Decline In UK Sales
• UK Most Popular Sites
• A contemporary Christmas
• Mickey Rourke designs
• LK Bennett for sale
• La Senza reports 3Q results
• Going for Gold
• Silly sells
• Lagerfeld To Apologise
• Kids Are New Shopping Addicts
• Chistmas Crisis
• Philips-Vans Heusen Acquires Arrow
• Laura Ashley Shopworker Uncovers Fraud Ring
• IT textile vendor appoints re-seller
• New CEO for Stella
• Juicy Barbie
• Head-honcho wears poncho
• Far East rules the roost
• Couture is the word
• Lacoste wins dispute
• Best foot forward
• Wear a yellow bracelet
• UK retailer sources India
• Prada restructuring
• Fashion talk
• Talented De la Renta jr.
• New CFO for Polo
• Internet sales doubled
• Basso & Brooke score
• Wal-Mart unions in China
• KarstadtQuelle quits venture
• Lagerfeld offended by H&M
• Departure for Laura Ashley
• Mothercare to expand abroad
• Planning wool's comeback
• The future of Armani
• When fashion becomes unaffordable
• Tea and Jimmy Choo's
• French Connection in trouble
• Catherine knitting away
• Brantano results increase 26%
• H&M Europe's Fashion Favourite?
• Kmart and Sears Roebuck to merge
• Retail slower in Scotland
• Fashion Conscience
• Calvin Klein Boosts PVH results
• Tod's reports sales increase
• New fabric phone
• French Connection profit warning
• Adidas opnes new store in London
• Inditex blows off La Rinascente
• Gaultier finally affordable
• Marzotto to double sales in five years
• Bootylicious
• Klein goes Indian
• Lagerfeld scores again
• Marilyn Monroe exhibit opens
• Diamond prices rise
• Jil Sander quits again
• Jones buys Barneys
• The laws of fashion
• India introduces allergy-free garments
• Tiffany reports Third Quarter results
• Serena's new career
• Shop for charity
• Originality and the Fashion Icon
• It's a tie
• Men dress for men
• M&S management shakeout
• Gap Love Accessories
• New Louis Vuitton bags
• Clothing Exchange
• New Dior Watch
• Oprah to auction designer duds
• X-ray reveals all
• Calling all brides
• Daks To Launch Catwalk Collection
• Helmet Head
• Christmas In The Windows
• Armani's about-face
• Frost's brilliant genes
• Christmas tales
• Heidi Klum on modelling
• Trading Places
• Benetton Gives Land To Indigenous Indians
• Ann Summers & Wonderbra
• Ford fraternising with enemy
• Busted Switch On Regent Street Lights
• New PRM solution
• Conflicting retail reports
• High Street Invasion
• Bullring Shopping Completes Final Development
• What Happened To The Art Of Bling?
• International Sales Decline At Gap
• Joma Builds On UK Success
• Debenhams profits climb
• EDI, standards, code, lists, European, fashion, market
• M&S To Cut Per Una Due Range
• Carried Away
• D&G in lawsuit?
• Fashionable Scent
• Heart Of Stone
• Reason to say 'I do'
• Kylie leg wear
• Tommy Hildfiger Delays Release of Profits
• Polo Reports Profits
• Get It At Next!
• Glamour Back At This Week's British Fashion Awards
• Decline In European Sales For Adidas
• G-Star by Marc Newson
• Pure and Simple
• Hail accessories!
• Naughty but very nice
• Macpherson to enter US market
• First HipHop Fashion Magazine
• Philo reigns
• Hall gets real
• Pop culture's fashion icons
• Philip Green Passes Arcadia To Wife In Tax-Saving Bid
• Chavs Like Their British Brands
• BRC Calls For Fairer Retail Property Rates
• Hobbs Sold To 3i
• Look like a fashion icon
• Celebrate the London Look
• Seussentenial Fashion
• Ford turns author
• It's in the bag
• New European head Calvin Klein
• The real bling
• Retail sales rise
• What Madonna did next
• Burberry Online
• American Apparel Comes To London
• A Few Scents For Kidman
• Stella McCartney Business to Expand
• Paul Smith joins internet hype
• Celebrity endorsement for Holland
• Fashionable alternative to eBay
• Abercrombie & Fitch Boycott Australian Wool
• Regent Street Christmas Lights Will Be 'Incredible'
• Passage To India
• Jimmy Choo For Sale
• Gucci Staffer Joins Abercrombie
• Harvey Nichols To Open In Dublin
• Hacket To Expand Abroad
• Matalan To Post Profits This Week
• Ralph Lauren Launches New Rugby Line
• Sparkle At Christmas
• Mango Targets America

News - October 2004

• Mango to enter US market
• Vogue searches for new talent
• Supermodel duped by dad
• Knickerbockers galore
• And the winner is…
• When Ben met Kate
• Pretty Pooches
• “Test the Nation” series
• Valli own label
• Boutique Alternative
• Thou shalt not blaspheme
• Armani still going strong
• Real men wear pink
• Ralph does Rugby
• Tweed is hot
• New magazine launch
• Laura Ashley To Close Factory
• Johnnie Walker vs Christian Lacroix
• Benetton Colours Remain Bright
• Gucci Appoints American Managing Director
• Record Results For Green's Arcadia
• N Brown To Conquer Footwear Market
• Consumer Spending Stable
• Wintle For Luxury Menswear
• Brits Best At Accessories
• M&S Insists Green's Bid Undervalued Company
• Boots To Sell Sex Accessories
• Fake Goods Could Have Terrorist Link
• Intelligent Apparel
• Dirrty Girl Fashion
• Fine Art meets High Fashion
• The smell of success
• Gucci Group Replaces CEO
• Footlocker Acquires Irish Stores
• Lancôme Unveils New Beauty Range
• Laura Ashley And L'Oreal Dispute Continues
• Kerry wins fashion vote
• Naomi's latest love
• Lingerie designer angered
• Pilati suffers reviews
• 3i to buy Hobbs
• Theron new Peta spokesperson
• Naked Charity
• Pharrell introduces eyewear
• Moon Boots back with vengeance
• Kim Cattrall In Fragrance Ad
• That Tweed Jacket
• Christmas Day Shopping Banned
• Prada Open Skirts Roadshow
• Fashion And Fantasy
• Fortnum & Mason Open In Tokyo
• Pierre Cardin Negotiations Stalled
• H&M Report Lower Than Expected Sales Rise
• Through Dior's Eyes
• MaxMara To Re-Open Bond Street
• Mulberry Opens Boutique
• Fashion designers get political
• LVMH profits climb
• Chloe for infants?
• Net-a-porter wins again
• Next best UK childrenswear
• Corset Fever
• Proenza Schouler CFDA winner
• Billionaire Green honours payback
• Victoria's Secret must recycle
• Moss new muse for shoes
• Agent Provocateur gets sexier
• Portuguese Bling Bags
• Cherie's bad fashion sense
• Tissot launches web watch
• Burberry Smells Success
• JJB Takeover Halt
• Versace Favours The Dangerous Look
• Pucci Foundation
• Nokia does fashion
• School bans revealing jeans
• Edinburgh to rival LFW
• No Muslim fashion parades
• New shares Hardy Amies
• New CFDA star
• Leslie Ash New Playtex Model
• Matalan Approached To Sell Lee Cooper Brand
• UK Shoppers Spending Cautiously
• Paris As Romantic As Ever
• Cliff's Scent
• Post-Gucci depression
• Armani Prefers A Benz
• Departure John Lewis Managing Director
• Sales Up For New Look
• Prada Buys Helmut Lang
• New face for Wonderbra
• Milla says "I don't"
• Matalan takeover bid rumours
• Pink's the ticket
• Kidman Causes Stir At Chanel
• Schoolboy New Face Of Dior
• Gap Inc. sales drop
• Young designers revive old guard
• Exhibition Black British Style
• Newcastle in flagship store onslaught
• Moss Bros on track
• Lagerfeld's dress code
• Fashion's multi-taskers
• Austin Reed suffers losses
• TopShop sells newcomer Wang
• Supermodel launches clothing collection
• JJB Sports In Takeover By Cinven
• Orlando Bloom In Calvin Klein Campain
• Fashion gloves online
• Beirendonck designs for Eastpak
• Hilfiger accused of fraud
• M&S Acquires Per Una
• Richard Avedon dies
• Chanel new No.5 campaign
• Posh fashion designer
• Versace profits plunging
• Forget Uggs, It's Mukluks
• Missing Sock Theory
• M&S Loses Star Staff
• Versace Closes Milan Fashion Week
• All Eyes On Gucci
• Ford The Next Film Star?
• Aquascutum Relaunches London Flagship
• JJB Sports Confirms Bid Interest
• Beckham and Scooby Doo in Adidas Ad
• Europe Competitive Against China Quota Lift
• Fashion Plays Dress-Up
• Allders Placed For Faster Recovery

For old news, look in the archive: 2004 Q3, 2004 Q2, 2004 Q1, 2003 Q4, 2003 Q3, 2003 Q2, 2003 Q1.

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