Retailers Shop For Your Spring

“As retailers pulled out their notepads to place orders on spring fashions featured on the runways in New York in recent days, they prepared to make a bet on new styles that they hope will nudge shoppers to start buying clothes again.”
Fashion in a Faltering Economy

More The Price of Showing in the Tents

“Up-and-coming designers consider a splashy runway show an investment in the future, with a price tag easily topping US$100,000. To get to the catwalk, many are using volunteer models, staging shows outside the Bryant Park tents or soliciting unconventional sponsors, like faucet makers.”
In a tough economy, designers become slaves to NY Fashion Week

Getting Ready For Fashion Week, Sketchpad in Hand

“The usual heels, but knock off the complaining”
Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

Behind The Success: Urban Outfitters

“Amid the worst consumer-spending slump in years, Urban Outfitters Inc. has been racking up big sales and earnings gains without putting much on sale.”
Urban Outfitters Fashions Growth Plan

Weak American Dollar and Fashion

“U.S. clothing makers are finding retailers that once stocked their stores with a variety of European brands are buying locally, given the cost of doing business internationally with a weak American dollar.”
More apparel buyers choose U.S. brands due to weak dollar

Mizrahi The Man To Revitalize Liz Claiborne?

“In an art gallery in New York’s trendy Meatpacking district, celebrity designer Isaac Mizrahi recently quietly gave retailers a glimpse of his vision for rejuvenating the Liz Claiborne label”
Claiborne Seeks a New Look

How Old Navy Is Trying To Float

“Specialty retailer Gap Inc. posted a better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter profit on cost-cutting and named a new president for its Old Navy division.”
Profit Up, Gap Names Old Navy Chief

Tweens Are Even Economizing

“As the economy goes, so go jeans with bling, faux-fur trimmed vests, little pink skirts and Jonas Brothers backpacks. Apparently, even fashion-conscious tweens are looking for value when it comes to headbands covered with little hearts.”
And Justice for tweens

Hemlines and The Economy

“People may pooh-pooh his theory, but George Taylor, the Wharton economist who posited the “hemline index,” could have predicted a floor-length silhouette for fall. For him, the slumping economy would have spelled the end of the micro-mini, and, to a certain extent, that’s just what happened.”
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