Charting Next Move: Gap Board Said to Meet as Sale Talk Swirls

Market experts concur that Gap won’t be easy to fix, nor will it be easy to sell.

The annual Conde Nast publishers’ meeting in Naples, Fla., is only three weeks away, so naturally speculation is rampant over who might take home the Publisher of the Year prize.

Score one for the good guys.

John Varvatos has found a new president.

Avon Products Inc. will charge into the next phase of its multiyear turnaround program by restructuring its U.S. distribution network.

A brief look at some of the day’s stories.

Actor Clive Owen has signed on to become the face of L’Oreal’s Lancome Men and Hypnose Homme.

Dolce & Gabbana will close its 8,000-square-foot flagship at 825 Madison Avenue on Jan. 19 for a six-month expansion and renovation.

Buyers shopped at the Moda and FAME trade shows with slightly higher open-to-buys seeking dresses and novelty pieces.

After acquiring Apparel Holdings Group last week, Hilco Consumer Capital LLC, based in Toronto, is shaking up management.

As Lapo Elkann was recovering from a near-lethal cocaine overdose about a year ago, the subsequent media assault forced him to do some deep soul-searching.

Apparel importers were gearing up to make the case against a mandate to screen all U.S.-bound cargo containers at foreign ports as the House passed a national security bill Tuesday night.

Collaboration emerged as a central theme among the 2006 winners of the WWD Exec Tech Community Service Awards.

Members of online community ShareYourLook can browse the site to see what people are wearing all over the world by searching on a tag such as “leggings” or viewing randomly generated groups of photos from the site on a page called “The Wall.”

For a young designer just starting out, the Web can be the perfect stepping stone from nothing to something.

The awards-season red carpet has become a corporate battleground for jewelry companies jostling for brand recognition by enticing stars to wear their gems.

Earle K. Angstadt Jr., a former president and chairman of Abercrombie & Fitch, died Sunday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 80.

While most celebrities entering fashion at least attempt to come up with a pseudo-psychological design philosophy, rapper Coolio is unapologetically honest about his overtly chauvinistic design aesthetic.