A Tougher Turf Ahead: Polo Reduces Outlook Over Economy Worries

Midtier apparel retailers are gearing up for a holiday showdown, and analysts say off-price players could come out on top, leaving department stores and discounters fighting for middle-market share.

Guy Laroche is taking another crack at reviving its moribund fashion business.

Gregg Fiene is back in business. Fiene, the founder of mega junior sportswear brand XOXO, has returned with a pair of new brands, Sele and Taylor and Hyde, aimed at enticing modern junior and young contemporary customers.

For its third Miami event, the contemporary trade show Coast sought to build momentum. Coast president Karen Bennett said the show, which occurs three times annually, had doubled to 124 exhibitors since its January 2007 debut.

MILAN — Alberta Ferretti’s customers may now shed the designer’s staple tiers and ruffles for streetwear garb — her new active line called PHILO-sophy. The 50-piece collection that launches for spring fuses a club chic…

The top 12 handbag brands ranked by familiarity among luxury consumers.

“How long has Coach been around?” queried Diane von Furstenberg Tuesday night when she hosted a dinner for the brand’s president and executive creative director Reed Krakoff.

The combination of sea slugs and French pastry is not generally the stuff of intellectual epiphanies, unless you have a dual major in neuroscience and English and pass time in the science lab reading Proust.

Pierre Letzelter has been named president of Groupe Go Sport, the sports equipment and clothing retailer owned by Rallye.

The House was expected to pass a free trade agreement with Peru Wednesday night that would make duty-free benefits permanent for apparel importers and open Peru’s market to U.S. exports.

Given his encyclopedic knowledge of costume history, the exhibition Christian Lacroix has mounted at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles here could have been a dense, academic exercise…

Her boyfriend Tom Brady of the New England Patriots has been getting a hero’s welcome from the media after Sunday’s last-minute win over the Indianapolis Colts…

After abruptly shuttering the bulk of its U.K. stores four years ago, Uniqlo is back. The Japanese casual fashion chain, owned by Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., on Wednesday opened the doors of two Oxford Street units…

Seattle Pacific Industries is taking the next step in building its Union premium denim label. The company, which also produces Unionbay, is turning attention to retail expansion after introducing its first sportswear collection in August…

Sales from company-owned stores helped drive earnings for True Religion Apparel in the third quarter, despite stagnating sales among the brand’s wholesale clients.

Diesel has tapped VF Corp. veteran Steve Birkhold to be the new chief executive officer of Diesel USA. Birkhold replaces Panicko Philippou, who had been with Diesel for 12 years and was named ceo of Diesel USA in January 2004.

Sustainable clothing is evolving rapidly both for consumers and the industry. And public awareness of environmental issues is being generated at the highest levels.

Walmart.com’s chief executive Raul Vazquez is bullish about apparel. “I have high hopes for apparel,” Vazquez said Wednesday. “We need to focus on basics like the stores.

Inter Parfums Inc. said Wednesday that sales and profits increased during the third quarter due to strength in its Gap, Banana Republic, Roxy, Paul Smith and Van Cleef & Arpels fragrance businesses.

Ron Burkle and American Media Inc.’s David Pecker are said to be meeting with banks to finalize the financing for Source Interlink Co…

Frette Inc. will open its 10th signature store in the U.S. at the Americana Manhasset Mall in Manhasset, N.Y., on the day after Thanksgiving.

In testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on intellectual property enforcement Wednesday, Kevin O’Connor, chairman of the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property, updated committee members on the task force’s efforts to…

Polo Ralph Lauren is the latest company to sound a warning blast about the months ahead.

Forget coordinating. This season, the freshest looks are layers of patterns — from plaids atop florals to checks over stripes.