Retailers Brace for Tougher Times

The program, sponsored this year by Target, explored topics relating to innovations in the mass retail sector.

Acquisition of the U.K. footwear brand strengthens both companies’ global footprints and gives the buyer serious clout in the luxury sector.

Uneven comparable-store sales results for May served as another harbinger of the turbulence awaiting stores in the second half.

She will become the first ever female executive editor of the newspaper.

The foundation honored Karl Lagerfeld, Spike Lee, Arianna Huffington and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff on Wednesday night.

House has tapped the principal dancer of the New York City Ballet for its new men’s fragrance, L’Homme Libre.

On the surface, the overall numbers in May were good but fell well short of expectations for a 5.4 percent total.

The restaurateur and James Beard award winner drew parallels between the food and wine industry and the beauty industry.

Ilex hopes to get sales bubbling with the new Ageless Bath Collection.

Repositioning the mass cosmetics brand as a problem-solution, masstige cosmetics range caught consumers’ attention.

Josie Maran Cosmetics was born out of concern for how makeup affects our health.

Daniel Kaner, co-president of Oribe Hair Care, addressed the importance of getting stylists behind a brand.

Deborah Lippmann’s eponymous brand features nail lacquer shades formulated with treatment benefits.

Heidi Klum, who launched Heidi Klum for New Balance active apparel last fall, is adding sneakers to the lineup.

Silvia Fendi and Michael Burke hit the road to show the house’s fall-winter collection on the man-made islands in the South Korean capital’s Han River.

The Kenneth Cole Foundation is sponsoring the New York viewing of “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010.”

The sustainable fragrance franchise will debut PureDKNY Verbena in August.

The new fragrance, called Diane, has been planned as the first stage of what executives view as an entire beauty house of DVF.

New Asian Innovation Center nearly doubles the size of beauty firm’s original lab located at the same site to roughly 18,000 square feet.

Salvatore Ferragamo, Prada and Moncler reported brisk business in the first quarter and the outlook for the remainder of the year is bright.

Online deal purveyor’s 2010 revenues hit $713.4M, according to SEC filing.