Limited’s Beauty Sprint: Forms Unit to Speed Development

Limited Brands has formed an in-house unit called Beauty Avenue to create personal care and beauty brands for its major retail platforms.

Trust Tom Ford to inject more than a wink of sexiness into his new collection of sunglasses, to be unveiled today at the Silmo fair in Paris.

Hot on the heels of one of the most acclaimed collections shown during Paris Fashion Week, the French house said Thursday it will christen a flagship boutique in Hong Kong this weekend.

“Most of what we do is driven by the fact that we make 3 cents on the dollar.”

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. named Wan Ling Martello chief financial officer of its international operations on Thursday.

Given the increasingly symbiotic relationship between fashion and celebrity, it makes sense that major brands are sponsoring screenings for the movies of Hollywood’s biggest style icons.

The newly renovated Louis Vuitton store at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu opening today is triple the size and filled with bells and whistles.

The U.S. Polo Association and Jordache Ltd. won the rights Thursday in New York Federal Court to use the three horsemen logos.

Making it through Wednesday night’s social scene, which included the ABT gala, The Boys Club dinner and cocktails for New Yorkers for Children.

Poised for a double fragrance launch at Cannes Duty Free, Euroitalia’s president, Giovanni Sgariboldi, is headed into a new era at a pivotal time in his influential company’s development.

For such a high-profile guy with a hard-driving image, Tom Florio isn’t afraid to show a bit of humility.

This winter, Estee Lauder is giving one of its best-selling skin care brands a facelift.

Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields, who launched their careers by specializing in acne, are now tackling the problems of sensitive skin.

On the back of a bumper year for beauty, Hermes is preparing a crop of launches for this holiday season.

The color wall in mass stores is poised for an overhaul next year as beauty’s top players churn out aggressive launches in response to several years of lackluster innovation and flat sales.

Alberto-Culver is taking several collections under the Nexxus salon hair care brand into the mass market in February.

Body Tools Inc., a four-year-old men’s grooming marketer, is focusing on hair care as it expands its specialty store distribution base.

“It took Tom Ford to help us find a little bit of our mojo again,” John Demsey, Estee Lauder and MAC Cosmetics’ global brand president, divulged to an audience of Fashion Institute of Technology students Monday evening.

The U.K.’s Pentland Group is building up its apparel business and it can’t come too soon for chairman Stephen Rubin.

Officials from four West African countries told USTR Rob Portman they need resolution of the cotton subsidies issue or Doha is in jeopardy.

This year’s American Magazine Conference, which drew to a close on Wednesday, of course had its ups and downs.

Us Weekly’s recent cover stories have been fixated on what it characterizes as the definitive split between Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson.

Michael Kors Inc. said Thursday that it would pull the plug on the Michael Michael Kors men’s sportswear collection, effective May 1.

Wal-Mart Canada is appealing a pair of decisions last month by Quebec’s labor board that favor unions.

Jones Apparel Group Inc. has cut 129 jobs from its Bristol, Pa., distribution facility.