Fashion Brands Focus On Heritage

Richard Dickson is joining Jones Apparel Group as president and chief executive officer of branded businesses, a new post.

The designer flew into Hong Kong and Beijing on a whirlwind trip.

At Dallas Market Center, stores booked immediate goods to fill in holes for spring.

Messe Frankfurt’s new fair, the International Apparel Sourcing Show, is set for July 13 to 15 at the Javits Center.

At Première Vision and Texworld textile fairs next week, visitors will find mills seeking to capitalize on a growing sense of optimism.

At Pitti Filati trade fair, yarn producers such as Zegna Baruffa braced for a volatile market.

South Africa will look to revive its troubled textile and apparel sector in a major initiative to be proposed in the country’s new budget.

At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam’s economy will bounce back in 2010

The 2010 FSF Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan on Jan. 13 raised more than $1.4 million.

Giorgio Armani is launching prescription frames with a retro style that evokes eyewear of the Forties.

Catherine Moellering succeeds Kathy Deane at The Doneneger Group.

Alberto-Culver’s earnings per share beat estimates by 3 cents.

BIGresearch survey shows younger consumers are less pessimistic about the economy.

Fashion-related stocks gaining ground yesterday included Liz Claiborne, Talbots and AnnTaylor.

Despite tough times at retail, they are jumping in or trying to grow.

Connolly, the London fashion and luxury accessories retailer owned by Joseph Ettedgui, has shut its doors.

FIT and six other colleges from around the world will also compete in the Retail Futures Challenge this spring in Berlin.

Retailer Malouf’s closes one store in Burlingame, Calif. and opens another in Southlake, Texas.

Luxury players Louis Vuitton, Prada, Gucci and Dior promote history of brands in an effort to lure consumers.

Stella McCartney has put an old pal at the center of her spring ad campaign: her family’s pet dalmation.

Export funding increases, but wool programs eliminated.

Rachel Zoe, Arianne Phillips and Nancy Steiner pose for Los Angeles-based painter Kimberly Brooks.

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning discuss their turns as iconic rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the film, “The Runaways.”

Bloomingdale’s swung open its doors for the first time on foreign soil with a lavish party drawing Dubai royalty, fashion and retail executives and socialites.

Coinciding with the lead-up to the Super Bowl, Sean John opened its first pop-up store this past weekend in Miami Beach.

Beyoncé Heat launch is expected to incite a media frenzy, with Mary J Blige, hubby Jay-Z, Usher and Kanye West all on the guest list.

Buying Barneys may no longer be possible as Istithmar World stands behind its asset.

The day’s top gainers and losers.