A $1B Quest: Jones Looks to Tommy, Calvin as Polo Talks Drag

NEW YORK — Clinique’s newest scent, Simply, has anything but an easy goal: to reinvent the Oriental fragrance category. The new scent, which includes notes of creamy soy milk and smoky toasted soy nuts, will be launched in September in…

Is Jones Apparel Group’s overture to Tommy Hilfiger Corp. merely a negotiating ploy to irk Ralph Lauren – or does it desperately need the business?

Posting a better-than-expected 1.7 percent rise in fourth-quarter net, Gucci ceo Domenico De Sole said market conditions could improve in the second half.

Italian luxury players Bulgari, IT Holding and Marzotto released a mixed bag of results for 2002.

Gap ceo Paul Pressler has recruited another former Disney colleague, Toby Lenk, to head Gap’s online businesses as president of Gap Inc. Direct.

Simon Says,…Reebok Time…Jewelry Move

A Bush administration plan to overhaul federal rules governing who gets overtime pay is raising eyebrows among retailers because of the cost.

Summer School…Phat Cash…Doggie Glossy

LONDON — When Space.NK launched a line of makeup accessories in November 2001, including eyelash curlers, brushes, sponges and tweezers, it was a clear sign that a color makeup collection would not be far behind.

In April, the British…

NEW YORK — Spring is bringing a shower of products for Origins, with a new fragrance, three new sun care products and a new lipstick line slated for launch.

“We had an excellent holiday season — with double-digit comp-door growth…

NEW YORK — Elizabeth Arden is lighting up its color cosmetics presentation this spring with a new tinted moisturizer.

Sheer Lights Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15, the brand’s newest product, is designed to hit counters in…

Clinique’s newest scent, Simply, has anything but an easy goal: reinventing the Oriental fragrance category. The scent will be launched in September.

NEW YORK —?In a plan to further strengthen its skin care business, Chanel will launch five new treatment products to three collections this spring.

“Skin care is traditionally a slow build,” noted Jean Hoehn Zimmerman, executive vice…

NEW YORK —?It’s anything but weird science: upscale body and skin care brand Qiora will launch seven new products in May, all with scientific studies as a cornerstone.

Two studies in particular were key, noted Maree Lavo, executive…

NEW YORK — Sally Hansen Healing Beauty has quietly started to make its way into retailers’ sets.

The new cosmetics collection from Del Labs is the first major launch in the mass market in four years — since stores upended…

NEW YORK — Larry Couey keeps diving in — even if it means swimming upstream a bit.

Maybe Couey’s inspiration is derived from being based along the banks of the Delaware River in artsy New Hope, Pa. Or maybe it’s that…

NEW YORK — The Casual Corner Group has made a foray into beauty with the introduction of a fragrance, bath-and-body and color cosmetics collection.

The retail group offers apparel and accessories to petite through plus-size women, under…

Teen beauty is coming into focus at Rite Aid this year, and starting Tuesday, the chain is launching its “Glam Camp” in-store promotion.

NEW YORK — Retailers are finding an avenue to provide beauty tips and sampling without adding beauty advisers.

Chains have increasingly been staging in-store events run by a third party. Not only has Eckerd offered product demonstrations,…

NEW YORK — Laura Mercier is taking her customers to the south of France with her latest bath-and-body line.

Mediterranean Collection, Mercier’s second bath-and-body line, will be available beginning mid-April in Mercier’s…

NEW YORK — Orlane is going to extremes — by expanding its B21 Extrême Line Reducing Care treatment collection, which was created four years ago to address fine lines and wrinkles.

The high-end French skin care brand is…

Science Class…It’s Official…FIT’s Beauty Appointment…FIFI a la Francaise…Retiring From IFF

NEW YORK — Desperate to get a grip on slipping sales in the bath category, Calgon is taking a more substantial positioning with a new line that focuses on benefits, not just fragrance.

Coming to retailers in May is Calgon’s first…

NEW YORK — Extracts, the trade show for aromatherapy, fragrance and personal care, kicks off today at the Jacob K. Javits Center. This spring’s effort, which runs through the weekend and ends Monday at 4 p.m., is expecting 250 exhibitors…

NEW YORK — Pantene’s third annual singer-songwriter search could reach a much broader audience this year, now that it has signed a deal giving it the ears of millions of teens to hear its message.

Pantene Pro-Voice, the nationwide…

Carving It Out…Going Up

NEW YORK — If it’s true that twins are capable of sensing one another’s emotions at the same time, then Bruce and Scott Pask are riding the same high.

In the arc of their individual careers in New York over the past decade…

Open Season…Deco Dreaming

The architectural design team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have made the temporal exploration of space a central theme of their work for two decades, as demonstrated by an exhibit currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art…

Not So Simple…A Bazaar Exit…Click

NEW YORK — British knitwear brand Pringle is continuing its reinvention and now its focus is on the colonies.

The company, which has been undergoing a transformation in the last three years, has begun looking for a site for a New York…

Previews of May weddings and the LHNH gala; Sir Elton’s birthday bash; the Douglas clan gets to work; a romantic start for Prince William.