Nature Hammers Florida: Wilma Cripples Retailing, No Lasting Impact Seen

Just when the retail industry thought it couldn’t get worse, Hurricane Wilma slammed into South Florida on Monday, damaging property and psyches.

Some companies donate excess inventory, but Seventh Avenue’s Bernardo Fashions is in the midst of manufacturing 900 women’s drawstring pants for donation to the nonprofit Fashion Delivers for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Reebok’s pending sale to Adidas for $3.8 billion is having a negative impact on the firm’s performance, but earnings in the third quarter were robust.

NEW FED CHIEF: President Bush on Monday tapped his top economic adviser, Ben S. Bernanke, to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernanke must now be confirmed by the Senate. Bernanke, 51, was appointed by…

The social world came, coiffed and gleaming, to the International Fine Arts and Antique Dealers Show at the Armory on Park Avenue Thursday night.

LONDON — With a biography released earlier this year, the upcoming biopic film “Fur,” which just wrapped up shooting in New York with Nicole Kidman, and the traveling exhibition “Diane Arbus Revelations,” which kicked off…

It’s a common practice nowadays among front-row starlets and socials to arrive at a fashion show decked out in the designer’s duds. But what to do when the event features 10 different collections? Try the approach of rising actress…

Wenner Media executives got some bad news on Friday when Bob Wallace, head of the company’s books division, resigned.

Goody’s board favors a cash offer of $8.85 per share from Prentice Capital Management and GMM Capital over a bid by affiliates of Sun Capital.

Azzedine Alaïa is getting fresh.

Pat Kerr was cool and collected two hours and 15 minutes before the bridal designer’s 25th anniversary fashion show and retrospective.

All the world was a stage for Los Angeles designers, drawing influence from everything from Spain and theatrical Twenties to gritty rock ‘n’ roll.

Jared Gold: Despite the ghoulish makeup, Jared Gold featured wearable clothes, such as sweet ruffled dresses, cropped jackets and a beautiful Goth coat and cape, along with playful details, as in rickrack and…

The prim and proper look appeared to have taken over the Chateau Marmont’s garden for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runway show, which capped off Los Angeles Fashion Week on Friday.

Vera Wang purchased nine dresses before her wedding, so her firm is among a crop of bridal resources offering more gown choices for brides.

Carolina Herrera is giving brides-to-be a space to call their own.

USTR Rob Portman has brought an adventurous spirit, a Midwestern work ethic and political savvy to his Cabinet-level post.

A deal to regulate Chinese imports might still come to pass, but U.S. textile firms and apparel importers are starting to move on as the prospects for an…

L’Oreal reported strong third-quarter sales and said it’s on track to meet full-year goals of EPS exceeding 10 percent and a sales gain of 5 to 6 percent.

Francisco Costa printed, Sylvia Heisel stitched and Peter Som stenciled.

NEW YORK — Holt Renfrew & Co., Canada’s luxury retailer based in Toronto, finally filled a key slot last week by naming David Asher vice president of women’s wear.

Asher will join Holt Renfrew on Jan. 1. He succeeds…

Countering criticism that Wal-Mart’s health care benefits are too expensive, ceo H. Lee Scott revealed details of a low-cost insurance plan for workers.