Neiman Marcus Powers Ahead With 187% Spike in Earnings

NEW YORK — Robert Burke, who has been instrumental in sharpening the fashion message at Bergdorf Goodman, has been promoted to senior vice president for the fashion office and public relations, a new position.

Burke, formerly vice…

TRADING IN THEIR SNEAKERS: Fresh from the track in Athens, U.S. Olympians Anthony Famiglietti and Derrick Peterson, both members of the U.S. track and field team, are set to be on the sidelines in Bryant Park for Kenneth…

LAS VEGAS — An array of products at MAGIC marketplace last week, from dip-dyed jeans and circle skirts to chiffon blouses and other flirty tops, got the attention of buyers and kept pencils busy writing orders.

Although there wasn’t…

OFF PRICE

This year marked the 20th show for Off Price, and it was a record-breaker with attendance of 12,000, an increase of about 600 buyers.“The smaller retailers are catching on to increase their bottom line,” said Carole…

LAS VEGAS — Most retailers will consolidate their sourcing operations as they head into 2005, when textile and apparel quotas are lifted, Peter McGrath, chairman of the purchasing corporation at J.C. Penney Co., said during a seminar at…

BERLIN — Escada Group, the Munich-based luxury fashion house, pared its third-quarter loss on a revenue gain of 3.7 percent gain.

For the three months ended July 31, Escada reported a loss of 2.6 million euros ($3.14 million), or 15 euro…

NEW YORK — Apparel retailers need to boost customer service if they want to increase market share, according to a new study.

Almost 33 percent of the companies surveyed by ICC/Decision Services have sales associates who are not suggesting…

Carolina Herrera Baez is expecting…Eva Herzigova joins world of design…Home sweet home for Gwyneth Paltrow.

A small, discreet test of the Continental waters? Think again. Ralph Lauren is launching a bold push further

into Europe with a sprawling 16,000-square-foot flagship on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone, opening Thursday.

“This is…

Inventory and expense management led to the Neiman Marcus Group’s 187 percent leap in earnings in the quarter ended July 31.

Beyoncé unveils the name of her much-anticipated apparel collection, The House of Deréon, named after the singer’s grandmother.

Hurricane Frances’ destructive path through Florida over Labor Day weekend cost Federated Department Stores an estimated $20 million in sales.

SURFING CHLOE: Chloé unveiled its first online shop-in-shop at Net-a-porter.com, which went live this week and sells clothing and accessories in its own environment. “Chloé is one of our best-selling brands, and there’s a…

Adidas will deepen its involvement in the fashion arena with a new performance activewear collection designed by Stella McCartney.

From brilliant sunsets to striking pottery, New York designers describe what inspired their spring collections, which they begin showing today.

Ralph Lauren’s Italian flagship, which opens Thursday, is one of the first components of Polo Ralph Lauren’s major push into Continental Europe.

NEW YORK — Jones Apparel Group is facing accusations of shirking royalty payments related to its use of the Gloria Vanderbilt trademarks.

Netherby Ltd., a British company that owns the global rights to Gloria Vanderbilt, filed a complaint…

NEW YORK — Limited Brands Inc. and United Retail Group Inc. have parted ways.

Limited sold off its 1.6 million shares of the plus-size specialty retailer on Aug. 27 for $2.20 a share, or $3.5 million, according to a filing last week with…

MILAN — Lower interest payments helped IT Holding report a significant hike in first-half pretax profits, which grew to 20 million euros, or $24 million, from 9 million euros, or $10.8 million, in the same period last year. (Dollar figures have…

LONDON — The Shiseido Corp. has merged its U.K. business into Decléor U.K. Ltd. in a bid to increase market share of the Shiseido brand in the U.K.

David Lieber, group managing director of Decléor U.K. and Carita U.K. —…

WASHINGTON — President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, took each other to task Tuesday over economic policies, as Kerry talked up his trade platform at a town hall meeting in North…

NEW YORK — What’s in a fashion magazine reading habit? A preference for fashion shopping at high-end department stores.

It should perhaps come as no surprise that women who read fashion and/or beauty magazines were 44 percent more…

Imitation of Christ designer Tara Subkoff has designed a signature collection of shoes for Easy Spirit that will debut for spring.

NEW YORK — Like the ladies it often serves in the treasure trove that is its Park Avenue boutique, fine jewelry house Seaman Schepps has long preferred to play a discreet yet revered role in the luxury market. But now the firm, best known for…

NEW YORK — Since its inception late last year, absolutely nothing about the Phi collection launched by Susan Dell has fit into the standard picture of a new designer label — not its offbeat (but historically rooted) pronunciation as fee,…