Month: November 2019

Soon your favourite music will come with your favourite jeans. The Gap is teaming up with Apple iTunes Music Store and will be giving away free music downloads with the purchase of a new pair of jeans. To be launched in The States, the new ad campaign will feature musicians singing covers of their favourite song while wearing Gap jeans. The company will be offering those collected covers in a CD at Gap stores for customers who make a $60 or more Gap purchase.

The CD contains eight songs exclusively recorded for Gap by the stars of the new campaign, a director’s cut of the autumn TV advert and behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of the commercial. Europeans will have to wait a little longer for collaboration.

The US online fashion retailer Bluefly Inc has announced an increase in its net sales for July 2005 of approximately 23 percent to about $ 3.1 million (£1.72 million). The company announced earlier this year its plans to continue to report monthly sales results throughout 2005, and to report quarterly sales results thereafter. Bluefly was founded in 1998 and has its headquarters in the Fashion District in New York .

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High street sales in Scotland rose 3.4 per cent on the back of good weather and the summer sales.Like-for-sale sales rose in July against a UK drop of 1.9 per cent, with grocery and clothing the strongest performers. Total sales grew 8 per cent, an increase from 6.9 per cent in June. Fiona Moriarty, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium said the figures mask the true picture on the high street which is still struggling with price deflation, intense competition and price-conscious shoppers.

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Discounting and extended sale periods encouraged shoppers back into stores. Hot weather helped, with sales of items such as barbecues and summer accessories bringing a boost to the struggling DIY and clothing sectors. The SRC said the consumer spending slowdown was still evident but “there are signs of a levelling off of performance”. It added: “This may well signify that we are close to the bottom of the cycle.” Sales of autumn and back-to-school lines could give August sales a similar lift.

Moriarty added that there was evidence of a sales dip in Edinburgh and Stirling in early July, because of fears surrounding the G8 summit at Gleneagles. John Lewis reported sales down as much as 30 per cent on the weekend of 2nd July.

A Paris court dismissed a damages claim by French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac against the Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana for selling a teddy bear design he said copied his. The court ruled that the fact de Castelbajac had used the bear design on a coat did not give him rights over other clothing articles containing the same idea.

De Castelbajac had asked for 250,000 euros in damages after Dolce and Gabbana marketed a skirt with similar brightly coloured bears. Instead, the court ordered him to pay the Italian company 4000 euros to cover legal costs.

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The UK high street has seen another blow to its already underperforming retail sector with the announcement from Next stating a bigger-than-expected downturn in sales. Figures at Next have dropped by 6.3 per cent over the past 15 weeks, a sharp acceleration on the 3.5 per cent downturn in the first seven weeks of its new financial year.

Stripping out the impact of new store openings on existing outlets, the fall was 3.2 per cent, up from 0.9 per cent. The contribution from new stores saw total sales ahead by 6 per cent while the Directory mail order operation’s sales rose 8.1 per cent.

Next has been one of the High Street’s brightest stars in recent years but has been unable to withstand the sudden spending squeeze. The shared tumbled 27p to 1478p on news of the worse-than expected performance. Trading was active ahead of the figures, with speculators betting the shares would lose ground. As much as £300 million of stock is though to have been sold short in recent weeks, as traders gambled they would be able to buy the shares back cheaper after the trading update

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Following months of rumours, Phoebe Philo’s departure from fashion house Chloe has now become a fact, reports Women’s Wear Daily. In today’s announcement, she will be citing personal reasons, according to market sources. The designer had expressed her wish to spend more time with her young family, a fact that was becoming increasingly difficult to combine with the tough demands of her job.

Speculation over the creative designer’s imminent departure from the luxury fashion label was first brought up by WWD in November.

A source told WWD that a successor has not yet been selected and the fall collection, which will be revealed in March, will be designed by the in-house team. The team – consisting of Sara Jowett, Natasha Lee, Valeska Duetsch, Adrian Appiolaza and Yvan Mispelaere – has already had experience designing in her stead, when Philo was on maternity leave.

The industry has begun speculating over her successor. Roland Mouret has been suggested as a candidate; however sources have said that there has been no contact between Mouret and Chloe chairman and chief executive Ralph Toledano.

Philo has been credited with the phenomenal success of the brand in recent years, especially of its iconic bags and shoes. Having joined the label in 1997 as part of Stella McCartney’s design team, she succeeded her four years later when McCartney left to design her own collection. However, the demands of the job apparently became too much for Philo, even when the label moved its design studios to London to accommodate her.

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Notwithstanding these struggles, in November the brand’s parent company Richemont reported robust first-half profits. “This business has outperformed its peers, more than doubling sales in the six months under review,” said Richemont chairman Johann Rupert. “Chloe is developing its wholesale business and rolling out its international retail expansion programme.”

The brand is said to generate wholesale sales of $300 million, although Richemont last year said it would invest “tens of millions of euros” in Chloe in order to make it a billion-dollar brand.

Meanwhile, Chloe has opened a spate of boutiques worldwide in the past year, with the most recent opening being its second Paris store on the exclusive Avenue Montaigne.

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Vivienne Westwood is being heralded for her menswear, sold at Selfridges and Harvey Nichols in London. Following her catwalk presentation during Milan men’s fashion week, Westwood followed the main colour and fabric trends, but cut her garment with her usual eccentric flair.

Powder-faced models wore sharply cut suits with wide lapels, longer sleeves and a more relaxed silhouette in shades of grey and black with peach, berry and blue complemented on shirts, trousers and knits. Westwood also sent out Scottish warriors in oversized tartans screaming on trousers and suits. The British theme was softened by Glen checks on Crombie-style coats.

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Retail sales continued to rise for the fourth consecutive month in February. The British Retail Consortium said that like-for-like sales rose 0.6 percent in February, compared with the same period the year before. Sales climbed 0.2 percent in January. Total sales, which include all floor space, rose 3.5 percent, up marginally form 3.4 percent in January.

The BRC said floor space was growing, based on a growth rate for total sales up to 4.2 percent, but director general Kevin Hawkins warned: “These results underline yet again the continuing squeeze on consumer spending and, contrary to the Bank of England’s expectations, there is no sign of an upturn.” Department store sales picked up during the month, which the BRC said was thanks to Valentine’s Day. Leisure goods also showed some growth, but clothing sales remained generally flat. Growth in household spending, of which retail sales make up less than half, grew at its fastest rate in a year at the end of last year.

The Swedisch Outdoor and leisure apparel brand Tenson, has selected Amsterdam based Wellcreative to re-position the brand in Europe. Tenson was founded in 1951 in the Swedisch village Varberg and has become an important outdoor and leisure apparel brand in many countries in Western Europe. The need for the current re-positioning is to avoid ageing of the brand. Beside a lot of strategic work Wellcreative is involved in the product branding, de development and implementation of the communication concept, the development of the website and the design of a new exhibition stand.

Untill recent Tenson has worked with a Swedisch agency. The Dutch agency Wellcreative was selected because of its extensive experience with fashion and sport brands across Europe. At this moment more then half of Wellcreative’s clients are from outside of The Netherlands.

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You may have seen Kate Moss wearing the latest style of Sass & Bide jeans and thought: “perhaps if I dropped a size I can fit into a pair also.” And so it is with the latest fashion for “skinny” jeans this season as women are losing weight to fit into the tiniest drainpipe trousers and cigarette pants. Stockists are reporting a sharp increase in demand for the smallest sizes and, according to designers, a standard small clothes size is no longer eight but six.

The style prompted concerns that fashion was becoming increasingly divorced from ordinary women, who might be driven to disregard their health as a result. High fashion boutiques, such as Matches, which has a string of designer shops in west London, and Browns in the Bond Street area, report that they immediately sold out in the smallest sizes of jeans this season – sizes four to six. One of the most sought-after styles is the £130 “skinny-fit” jeans by the Australian designers Sass & Bide – made famous by Kate Moss.

Waiting lists for the grey version, in which she has been photographed in New York and London, have run into thousands. The jeans have also been worn by the American actresses Kate Bosworth and Chloë Sevigny, both of whom are “fashionably” slim.

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