Claiborne Goes Urban, Expands Brand Portfolio With $114M Enyce Deal

Parasuco is set for a homecoming of sorts.

Jill Stuart and Alpha Garments end their licensing deal.

A noncash charge pulled I.C. Isaacs & Co. Inc. to a wider third-quarter loss.

For the three months ended Sept. 30, the net loss was $545,000, or 5 cents a diluted share, compared with a loss of $510,000, or 7 cents, in the year-ago quarter….

Novel Denim narrows its loss.

Two Greenwich, Conn., moms have created an active line called Material, hoping to spice up their everydaywear.

Ten of the largest independent specialty stores selling designer merchandise, ranked by volume.

Three designers – Helen Wang, Tara Jarmon and Yigal Azrouel – are jumping into the contemporary fray. Here’s a look.

PARIS — Sexy, steamy and striking: Giambattista Valli’s spring collection for Emanuel Ungaro was all of those things and more. And that’s perfectly appropriate, because sensuality has always been the signature of the house. Using a…

Liz Claiborne Inc. expanded its brand portfolio to 33 Wednesday with an agreement to acquire Enyce Holdings for approximately $144 million.

• INVISTA SALE UPDATE: Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont said Wednesday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it expects to close the sale of its textile business, now known as Invista, during the first half of 2004. When…
  

NEW YORK — What an incredible waste of time and money.

That was the conclusion Judge Ira Gammerman came to in a miserable end for Gruner + Jahr, the magazine company that sued Rosie O’Donnell for pulling out of her namesake magazine…

Federated Department Stores joined the ranks of retailers who seem poised for a strong yearend, even though third-quarter profits fell by 36.8 percent.

NEW YORK — The Warnaco Group Wednesday turned in lower third-quarter losses in a report complicated by special charges, disposals and the firm’s emergence from bankruptcy nine months ago.

For the three months ended Oct. 4, the loss…

Hermès added some horsepower to the luxury sector’s rebound Wednesday, reporting organic sales growth of 9 percent in the third quarter.

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NEW YORK — Buoyed by strong gains at its lower-priced Loft division, Ann Taylor Stores reported double-digit increases in both profits and sales for the third quarter.

The firm said it expects the momentum to…

NEW YORK — American Eagle Outfitters and Bebe Stores are fighting over a top merchant.

Gregory Gemette, formerly AEO’s vice president and general merchandise manager of women’s, is expected to join Bebe next week in the new…

The bling-iest ladies in town celebrate with Dennis Basso.

Duncan Heath’s model business.

The Wella Group posts a double-digit earnings increase for the third quarter; Barbara Bui breaks into beauty; Kiehl’s pear tree.

NEW YORK — Bankrupt Spiegel Inc.’s net loss continued to mount in the third quarter on shrinking top-line results.

For the 13 weeks ended Sept. 27, the Downers Grove, Ill.-based parent of Eddie Bauer reported a loss of $103.9…

NEVER-ENDING: The rumor that will not die keeps rearing its medusa head: Italy’s Il Sole Wednesday reported Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole have invested $287.5 million, or 250 million euros, to buy a controlling interest in…

La Perla USA, the American unit of Italian giant Gruppo La Perla, will open a third signature shop in Manhattan at 425 West 14th Street in March.

NEW YORK — Edging toward its absorption by Jones Apparel Group, bankrupt Kasper A.S.L. said Wednesday that, even without a tax benefit from the resolution of a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service, it managed a double-digit profit increase…