KIDS’ CONNECTION: French Connection, the British-based fashion company, is partnering with New York-based Children Worldwide Fashion USA, a global children’s licensing company, to manufacture and distribute a children’s collection that will launch this fall. The girls’ and boys’ collection will be derivative of the French Connection women’s and men’s lines, and will range in sizes from toddler to 16 for girls and toddler to 18 for boys. French Connection has 27 stores in the U.S. and has more than 1,500 outlets in more than 30 countries. Children Worldwide Fashion is a licensing company that manufactures, designs, markets and distributes high-end children’s lines such as DKNY Kids and Burberry London Childrenswear.