fashion brands say long live the shops

  op business of luxury and fashion than Jones Group (JNY.N), Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (KORS.N) and Tumi Holdings Inc. (TUMI.N) sing of these stores, the maligned for years as outdated and useless, even if They want to open their own businesses.

Department stores, especially at the top end are all the rage again, helping her rebirth of initiatives such as Macy's Inc (MN) $ 400 million overhaul of its flagship Manhattan and a greater emphasis on exclusive haute couture clothing.

"We believe in the business," Richard Dickson, CEO of branded businesses at Jones Group (JNY.N) Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit said this week in New York. "Department stores have done an excellent job to revive and continue to reinvent itself in order to stay relevant."

Jones, whose brands include Jones New York, Nine West expects more than half of its sales in department stores such as Macy generate 's, this Nordstrom Inc. (JWN.N) Inc. and Dillard (DDS.N) years, but only 17 percent of the businesses that are not profitable to the United States.

Break their sales areas in the sections on the individual labels in department stores have become worldwide brands. For example, will open in the Gucci store Macy's in Manhattan this fall and is the largest site outside the lighthouse.

This means that buyers may be less on the same brand department stores in favor of select stores.

Michael Kors CEO John Idol "There is a client who is very dedicated to shopping at Macy or Nordstrom or Dillard or Lord and Taylor, and the client may or may not buy from a specialty store, is" during a conference last week.

Sales stores like Macy rose by 3.7 percent in the first half of the year, while Nordstrom up 6.3 percent, helped by more customer visits and spending.

Michael Kors said last month that sales got a bump in most major department stores, where a shop-in-shops. Which allowed him to Coach Inc. (COH.N), where sales in the United States department stores slipped last year nibble.

The coach focuses on the construction of its own stores. But he also recognized the value of a bathroom in a department store above. She introduced renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to design Coach Store inside Macy's flagship.

And sales in both formats can feed each other. Saks CEO Steve Sadove told Reuters in an interview ahead of the summit that sales Kors flagship store in Manhattan opened Saks Kors after an independent business in the street increased.

Running their own shops gives a company greater control over their brand and diversification where useful where sour a relationship.

Jones and Ralph Lauren Corp. (RL.N) each took a big hit this year after JC Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) dropped a line from each company.

Tumi CEO Jerome Griffith actually wants U.S. 200 stores 1 day to about 100 today. But he hastened to retailers such as Nordstrom congratulate its upscale image and manufacturer of luggage and accessories to increase visibility.

"We have done very well with the big stores," said Griffith. "We need a presence."

And even if CROX.N Crocs Inc. strives to open new stores in the United States, an executive department stores such as Kohl's Corp. (KSS.N) said to remain front and center.

"We did not leave our wholesale customers. They are very important for us," said CFO Jeff Lasher Crocs.

podiums digital where fashion meets technology

  How to use new technology to improve customer satisfaction and sales in store and online?

We use social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to build a relationship with our customers and the House of Holland experience. We see where our customers are, how they shop, what they buy and where they shop - what we can to see as much of these channels. Movement was important for us to integrate our online store on our Facebook profile, allowing customers to shop directly through Facebook as well as the main site.

Can you tell us a bit more? Augmented reality app with Aurasma and InStyle last year

We worked with Aurasma a magazine cover increased reality to create - this is a first for the industry and as far as I know, one of the first augmented reality magazine cover in the world. This season we look forward to SS13 pre-collection for us. Developing similar technology to patterns in the clothes that animate us and to bring to life, the T-shirt graphics and prints of the placement may be used

How to use digital technology and the London Fashion Week this month?

This is the first season that eBay mode CFB forward support initiative and I'm really happy the first designer to open a pop-up shop on their website for the duration of London Fashion Week to be.

This initiative allows us to communicate with customers and reaching new and next to the store, we are live streaming our show LFW simultaneously. EBay collective style, her fashion blog, and the House of Holland website

It gives us a chance to rank for numerous exclusive fashion enthusiasts to make more and more technological element to the show.

Are you on any difficulties encountered in implementing these technologies? How did you overcome them?

The challenge is always the budget. The scope of technology and fashion is huge and incredibly exciting, but a small company like mine has limited resources and can not do what the budget allows.

Do you think that the increase in the retail mobile and social? Customers away from the road

I think he can handle it. The more opportunities for one customer in the store, which means, the more they will use it. In my opinion, as long as you make the sale, it does, where it comes from?

What advice would you give to retailers who have not yet adopted new technologies as part of their retail strategy?

If you are not new technologies, you are not on a great opportunity and let you get ahead of your competitors in the race to reach consumers. I have only had positive experiences with the introduction of new technologies to had to support my business, and I can fully recommend it as a way to get closer to your customers.

Fashion Week: Michael Kors' airstrip

  Michael Kors displayed its new range now at the New York Fashion Week Mercedes-Benz.

The creator was Jewish in Long Iceland, NY Joan Hamburger, a former model, born and her husband, Karl Anderson, a college student. His mother remarried when he was five years old and designers later changed his name to David Michael Kors. Kors currently lives in New York and married her longtime boyfriend in August last year.

Kors started his label in 1981, when he fresh from the Fashion Institute of Technology was, and began selling his clothes at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks immediately. The women were out for its modern takes classics and songs that made them look dressed stylish and trendy. Decades later, it has flagship stores across the country, and beauty, sunglasses, perfumes, home, handbags, jeans, shoes and underwear lines. And of course it has the mega-celebrity factor. His role as judge of Project Runway, the show sometimes his Jewish roots According to the New York Times profile, he once told a young designer, "One of my aunts could wear this dress. It's, like, a good time, bar mitzvah."

Before issuing Cor tweeted today most of his new collection. "Stripes bold graphics, shading and geometric glamor" Two models wore black dresses with small triangular shapes in the back. A male model wearing a green sweater and black striped pants with a matching green. Examines a model drop-dead gorgeous in a bright red backless dress with shiny belt, but a simple correspondence to his waist. Final models were on the runway as the colors they wore, a decision that a Twitter user was so excited by her tweet, "Oh my god .. the end of genius is made. Jump to color, such as a smart move on. "

European stocks dip; fashion sector hit

  LONDON: European shares fell on Tuesday, with the fashion industry reeling after warning profits of the company Burberry British and attention has focused on the next meeting of the Federal Reserve. Traders also looked to Germany, where a court was based on the constitutional legality of Berlin to govern the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) rescue fund to take to experience the countries of the euro zone debt help Wednesday. London benchmark FTSE 100 largest companies fell 0.42 percent to 5,769.57 points in late morning to handle business. CAC 40 dropped 0.27 percent to 3,496.51 undo points and Frankfurt's DAX 30 0.03 percent, to 7,211.33. Madrid shares fell 0.72 percent from persistent speculation about a possible bailout Spanish while Milan lost 0.84 percent of its value. The euro rebounded to $ 1.2819, the highest point since 22 May before it. To $ 1.2805 The unit has strong support from the European Central Bank received last week promised to buy government bonds from the euro-zone debt. Asian markets mostly fell on Tuesday after Wall Street waited losses dealers to see if the Fed announced this week, a new round of stimulus. He added. "After Friday disappointing employment figures, the consensus is that we are in some form of quantitative easing (Fed) this week to support the fragile recovery a United States is" on the company benefited from the face of the actions of luxury clothing and accessories group Burberry has fallen more than 18 percent after the company warned that earnings surprises affect the entire fashion industry. Burberry said in a trading update that like-store sales, according to the elimination of the effect of the new floor at neutral within 10 weeks 8th September and began to fall. Consequently, Burberry warned that annual profits would be at the lower end of analysts' expectations of £ 405 million £ 445 million be. In turn, the action of the group fell 18.48 percent to 1,120 pence. A Paris, actions luxury fashion group LVMH and PPR slid 4.27 percent and 3.87 percent to € 126.6 and € 122.95 respectively. afp

New York Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2013: Erickson Beamon

  Favorites of First Lady Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and other Karen Erickson and Vicki Beamon built their business on jewelry design. They have since expanded into ready-to-wear, her second collection shows on Sunday with an installation at Lincoln Center. The designers have a spectacular tableau vivant of models and fashion boutique Ikram dream like Goldman Chicago owner, DJ Becka Diamond and actress and socialite and beauty biz entrepreneur Julie Macklowe wear their creations in silk, lace and crystal.

The soundtrack of mystical music was provided by the group called UFO available.

Photos: Celebrity Sightings week NYFW

Inspiration: the cult film by William Klein, 1966, "Who Are You, Polly Magoo?" A satirical sendup of the fashion industry.

The look: piercing jewelry. Cocktail dress in rich shades of purple, magenta, coral, blue and black lingerie and influences with decadent details. Slip silk dresses worn with shrugs or beads knit, knit dresses with back spider straps, crystal and pearl corsage. There was also an abundance of dazzling jewelry, including necklaces and earrings crystal headbands.

Scene: So visually stunning, the people wanted to stay. It does not hurt that they were used to deal with spikes crushed ice.

The Verdict: Gorgeous but in an intimate and personal. It was fun, inspired the dress slip lingerie 1990s see the call again. And pretty pearls shrugs have shed light on a lot of appeal as a way of this black dress. Already in your closet

Fashion Week: Zac Posen track

  Zac Posen Fashion lamp shows its new line tonight at the Fashion Week in New York Mercedes-Benz.

The son of an artist and a business lawyer in Manhattan, Posen always knew he wanted to fashion design. As a child, the synagogue yarmulkes grandparents and make clothes for dolls with them. When he second year in high school, he completed an internship with Nicole Miller and worked under the direction of curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three years. And all that was before he was accepted at the Central Saint Martins College in London to study, famous for training many bigwigs of fashion. Posen started his own company in 2001, when he his 21st Celebrated birthday. His first exhibition was in 2002 in a former synagogue on the Lower East Side. But since the beginning of the enterprise poses financial difficulties has fallen, there has been too much too soon, and it has received mixed reviews from the fashion industry.

Posen is known for producing small cocktail dresses and little mermaid-shaped dresses that the known size and low flow match. "Mr. Posen Collections signing vampish developed out of old Hollywood style bias-cut silk dresses and flirty dresses chiffon butterfly fine threads that take their inspiration from something simple in nature, shells, raffia or Tumbleweed, for example," according to a mini-bio in the New York Times.

So what of poses to our program today expect? Something glamorous, mysterious and fun, and I hope very, very surprising.

Kylie zeigt ihr wahres Gesicht! Aussie Minogue mit einer Tasche Gucci Union Jack ... Rihanna wie Sü?igkeiten Lieblingswaffe

  Es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, um die Tür Federn und Pailletten, und das andere eine PVC-BH und H?schen zu finden, aber es scheint, dass Kylie Minogue und Rihanna einen gemeinsamen Nenner haben, wenn es darum geht, Stil.

Australische S?ngerin entdeckt wurde eine Tasche sehr ?hnlich zu dem des S & M S?ngerin wurde vor kurzem gesehen.

Kylie, 44, war die neueste Berühmtheit mit dem Gucci Boston Bag in Eingriff gebracht werden, wenn sie bei den Proben in London angekommen heute früh, Donnerstag.

 Sie soll auf einem speziellen Proms in the Park-Konzert an diesem Wochenende neben Opernstar Boe Alif und Il Divo durchzuführen.

Rihanna wurde mit dem Beutel mehrere Male auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks fotografiert, seine Verwendung als der Wahl Tote bei Terminen Tag und Nacht, und auf Eurostar bewegen auf dem Luftweg.

Trotz der Australier, mit Kylie Minogue bag das Logo "GG" Union Jack, w?hrend Rihanna war ein Star Spangled Banner mehr patriotisch.

Vielleicht war es eine Anspielung auf seine Wahlheimat, Gro?britannien, wo es als ein nationaler Schatz.

Es ist Preisschild von $ 895 scheint steil, aber das Versprechen Gucci, dass 25 Prozent des Kaufpreises gehen direkt an UNICEF für wohlt?tige Zwecke zu unterstützen.

Ein Statement auf ihrer Website, sie sagen, 25% des Verkaufspreises an UNICEF werden zur Unterstützung der Aktion "Schulen für Afrika" und "Schulen für Asien" Bildungsinitiativen vom 25. Juli bis Dezember gespendet 31 '.

Interessanterweise sind nur die amerikanische Flagge Motive und Italienisch online verfügbar, was bedeutet, dass Kylie konnte sein eigenes insbesondere gemacht haben.

Und seine Leistung in Hyde Park an diesem Wochenende, ist Kylie bereitet auch ein neues Album ver?ffentlichen.

Die Abbey Road Sessions ist eine Auswahl von sechzehn Songs sorgf?ltig ausgew?hlt und für das Album überarbeitet.

Kylie und ihre Band wurden von einem kompletten Orchester in den legend?ren Tonstudios verbunden.

Der kleine Stern ist kein Fremder in wechselnden sein Bild, aber es ist eine zweideutige Projekt für einen Künstler so eng mit High-End-Pop-Produktion verbunden.

Von seinen Anf?ngen arbeitet neben Stock, Aitken und Waterman, in Studio-Sessions mit der neuesten Scissor Sisters Jake Shears, hat sie immer versucht, die Grenzen zu schieben.

Das neue Album wird Favoriten, einschlie?lich Slow and Come Into My World zu interpretieren jede neue.

On A Night Like This soll erhalten eine Verjüngungskur sinnliche haben.

Ebenso wurde die Fortbewegung zu seinen Wurzeln in den 1950er Jahren reduziert und bessere The Devil You Know hat eine Generalüberholung herzzerrei?ende erhalten.

Die Fans sind ein Teil der Show ?nderungen berechtigt, an diesem Wochenende, wenn Kylie von allen dem BBC Philharmonic Orchestra unterstützt werden.

Andere Fans müssen bis zum 29. Oktober Tag des Albums offiziellen Release warten.