Perelman Pumps Another $125 Million Into Ailing Revlon

NEW YORK — With Color ID, its latest foundation line, Lancôme is aiming to match nearly every skin tone under the rainbow. Set to bow in March in Lancôme’s 2,200 U.S. department and specialty store doors, the line includes 20…

Billionaire Ronald O. Perelman has again come to Revlon’s rescue. Today, he’s expected to announce a $125-million infusion to keep the firm solvent.

Four European luxe houses posted earnings Thursday, all bearing the scars of a difficult 2003 as well as high hopes for holiday and the year ahead.

Citing lower-than-expected orders from retailers, Levi Strauss & Co. on Thursday lowered its sales expectations for the year.

Wal-Mart again reported double-digit bottom- and top-line growth Thursday, but apparel markdowns hurt its consolidated gross margin.

• LOSING GROUND: In the latest shakeup at Fin.part, Silvano Storer has stepped down as co-chief executive officer of the Italian fashion group. A successor to Storer, who served in the position for less than two years, has not been named….
  

Louis Vuitton is no longer involved with Style.com’s Holiday Shop, as reported on page 16, Tuesday. The luxury firm withdrew from the online venture on Wednesday.

Karen Murray, group president of men’s wear at Liz Claiborne Inc., said Enyce’s women’s business could grow to be as large as its men’s. She was misquoted in a story starting on page one, Thursday, due to a typographical error….

The magnificently designed (of course) 20th anniversary party of Peter and Jane Marino; lots of news from filmdom and even some early Oscar bits.

NEW YORK — Lancôme is aiming to build a broader foundation under its makeup category with the addition of a new line aimed at its widest ethnic audience yet.

With Color ID Precise Match Weightless Makeup SPF 8 launching in March,…

Victoria’s Secret Beauty is expecting a new addition to its Very Sexy family, Very Sexy for Her 2, which will round out its fragrance portfolio in March.

NEW YORK — Liz Claiborne Cosmetics is throwing a new curve into the market.

With Curve Crush, a new masterbrand aimed at capturing a slightly younger consumer, the brand is hoping to take a bigger share of the fragrance market this…

NEW YORK — Boston-based investment group Summit Partners has acquired a majority stake in Physicians Formula, previously owned entirely by Pierre Fabre Inc.

Pierre Fabre Inc. will retain a minority interest in the cosmetics firm and will…

Lancôme is aiming to build a broader foundation in makeup with the addition of a new line aimed at its widest ethnic audience yet.

NEW YORK — Clinique is building its immune system for a stronger business.

At a Skin and Immune Protection symposium on Tuesday at the Soho House here, Richard Granstein, M.D., chairman and professor in the dermatology department at Weill…

NEW YORK — Celine Dion is topping the charts.

The Coty Beauty fragrance, designed to compete head-on with the prestige fragrances that have been flooding the mass market, was the top-selling scent in mass doors in both August and…

Searching for ways to revive the sluggish mass fragrance market, The Northern Group is on the hunt for scents with strong histories.

LOS ANGELES —?With more than 70 runway shows, most within six days, the second official Los Angeles Fashion Week, which ended Nov. 3, proved a marathon for more than the legion of buyers and editors swarming the city in search of the next hot…

NEW YORK — Caleel+Hayden is aiming to give the spa market an afterglow.

The privately owned, Denver-based beauty marketer and distributor has expanded its three-year-old Glo Minerals cosmetics brand into bath and body. Appropriately…

NEW YORK — Alberto VO5 is expanding its role in hair care with Nourishing Oasis, a restorative, heat-activated shampoo and conditioner range that looks to fill a gap in the midpriced hair care arena.

For the first time, Alberto-Culver is…

FEKKAI LAUNCH PARADE: Frédéric Fekkai will be speaking to the British press next week to promote the launch of his hair care products to 15 Space NK stores in February. Fekkai is also in the process of putting together a day of…

LET IT SNOW: What’s more minimalist than snow? For Calvin Klein’s holiday window display at its Madison Avenue flagship, the company commissioned Czech artist Roman Deingruber to design an installation that makes the store…

Slumping women’s apparel sales and higher costs from a bevy of store openings pushed third-quarter results down for Kohl’s Corp.

American Eagle Outfitters suffered a whopping 62.5 percent evaporation in third-quarter profits, while Urban Outfitters’ income jumped 75.5 percent.

A messy contract dispute has left Bebe in the hole for a chief merchant and Gregory S. Gemette without a job.

NEW YORK — Since coming to New York magazine in 1998 as its media columnist, Michael Wolff has emerged as a kind of media world op-ed columnist on a really good (and really strange) acid trip with some sodium pentathol mixed in. His columns are a…

BACK AT THE TIMES: The ongoing nonsaga of the new, New York Times rolls on. The latest major voluntary staff change will be that Charles “Chip” McGrath is stepping down from his post as the editor of The Book Review to become…

LONDON — Two sets of sisters are offering more than a sympathetic ear to pregnant women who feel fat, frustrated and ugly.

Tania and Lara Khreino and Basma and Yasmin Alireza opened Blossom, a one-stop shop for fashion in Brompton Cross…

Blossom offers style and sympathy for pregnant ladies; Calypso’s empire expands.

LOS ANGELES — Spanish fast-fashion chain Zara is heading west with a store slated to open at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif., by spring.

The 10,000-square-foot men’s and women’s unit at South Coast Plaza will bow in…

Lower margins and a one-time benefit in 2002 offset skyrocketing U.S. sales to lower Tiffany & Co.’s third-quarter net income 20.3 percent.

An investment fund plans to sell its stake in Gildan Activewear over charges Gildan fired workers who were trying to unionize a factory in Honduras.

China increased its share of the entire U.S. apparel and textile import market to 18.8 percent in the first nine months of the year.