Kellwood Said In Talks to Acquire Malandrino

Rival French supermarket operator Groupe Casino confirmed existence of negotiations in a letter leaked to the media.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tom Hanks and Tim Burton were among guests invited to the state dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Madonna, Rachel Weisz, James Franco, Kim Cattrall and Chloe Sevigny attended the event Wednesday night.

With buyers shopping closer to season, the June show at FashionCenterDallas has become a full-blown fall frenzy.

Two showrooms and a number of labels will show for the first time at the June market.

Matt Roth, a FIG investor, has been appointed chief executive officer and Emma Greathouse has been promoted from sales manager to director.

The designer describes Diane, her latest women’s fragrance, as “the power of women in a bottle.”

The Zurich-based company known for working with recycled industrial tarpaulins has opened its first store in the U.S.

The Stockholm denim-based company has formed a venture with the New York and Montreal distributor and showroom Want Agency Inc. to create Acne USA.

Company’s comps and gross margin were both up in the first quarter.

Women’s business generates same-store sales increase at PacSun, while men’s stumbles.

Mostly spared by the catastrophe, denim makers are still dealing with the aftermath.

Guess Inc.’s ceo and chairman saw their collective compensation increase 70 percent.

Executive will cater to firms in transition as head of the consultancy’s newly formed special situations unit.

Bravado, a division of Universal Music Group, and Music Entertainment Sports Holdings, a division of LF USA, are launching a new venture.

The former chairman and ceo of Neiman Marcus Group will be inducted into WRC’s Retail Hall of Fame.

The brand’s first free-standing store, which bows today, is expected to do $1.5 million in first-year sales.

The label has opened a homier shop-in-shop at the New York department store, one of its largest wholesale accounts.

Firm’s ceo, Michael Kramer, hasn’t been shy about company’s focus on doing more deals.

The Erin Meets Zadig collection will be launched in September exclusively on Net-a-porter before going on sale in 80 of the brand’s leading points of sale.

Vise joined the company in 1938, as a sales trainee in Buffalo, and rose through the ranks until he retired in 1987.

Sites like Gilt and Net-a-porter are generating more editorial content — opening up a whole new job market for fashion magazine types.

Aerin Lauder and Tony Hsieh offered words of wisdom to the Fashion Institute of Technology’s graduating class on Tuesday.