The Slide Goes On: Jones, Liz Claiborne Swept Up in Dow’s Plunge

N.Y.-based retailer Steve & Barry’s will shutter all 173 of its remaining stores.

Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Blake Lively and Adrien Grenier partied at the Oak Room to celebrate Gucci’s new Tattoo Heart handbag collection benefitting UNICEF.

The hair care aisle is being primed for a slew of new items, hitting mass stores in the first half of next year.

Beauty shoppers are suffering from asset re-flux heading into the holiday season.

The global financial turmoil has rattled even the die-hard beauty shoppers, who have resorted to buying smaller sizes of luxury brands.

While there are plenty of organic and natural body care products for babies, Jason Organics has developed products for older children too.

Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. reported improved fourth-quarter results Thursday, but missed Wall Street analysts’ expectations of 15 cents per diluted share.

To mark the drugstore’s return to Times Square, Walgreens planned to flip the switch on a massive, three-sided billboard soaring 341 feet high.

Playboy, photographer and philanthropist.

Niche beauty brands are aiming to prove that green can be glamorous by introducing organic fragrances composed to compete with traditional prestige scents.

Europe came closer to creating a standardized classification system for organic and natural cosmetics last week.

MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Sanrio Global Consumer Products to create a Hello Kitty color cosmetics collection.

Oceans perfume was created with patent-pending micro-emulsion technology, and its recyclable packaging is made by wind power.

Designer Romeo Gigli launches Io Ipse Idem line.

Artisanal fragrance producer Profumo di Firenze aims to get a foothold in the U.S. market with two fragrance lines, called Bois 1920 and Odori, by Enzo Galardi.

Despite the grim times, both Marni and Moncler hope to give a brighter future to poor children in deprived countries.

Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann is known to keep all the details of his films secret until their release, but jeweler Stefano Canturi has some insider information.

It was hard for a panel called “The Market’s Future” to be anything but a downer….

Cole Haan’s Robert Trauber joins the contemporary brand, Juicy Couture.

French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s Pop Art-inspired fashion business has been rescued.

Declines come as most retail chains report lower earnings or larger losses.

The day’s best and worst performers.

Beginning Tuesday, WWD and WWD.com will add ongoing daily coverage of the men’s fashion, retail and related industries to its pages.

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