| Fair days ahead | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:48:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was a day to honor the new. Certainly, all the elements were in place: A baby-blue sky accented by spun-sugar wisps of nonthreatening clouds. A high school band playing brassy, up-tempo numbers that sounded like variations on a Saints Go Marching In theme. A crowd in the hundreds - as diverse as the world in which we live, as hopeful as the world that we envision. .... | |
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| | | Industry report | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:47:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., the second-largest U.S. tire maker, reported its biggest quarterly loss in 14 years because of higher spending on raw materials and plant shutdowns to reduce excess inventory. The third-quarter net loss widened to $25 million, or 41 cents a share, from $840,000, or 1 cent a share, a year earlier, the Findlay, Ohio-based company said in a statement Wednesday. Sales rose 28% to $715.8 million because of an acquisition in China. Primus settles lawsuit Ford Motor Co.'s Primus credit unit settled a nationwide class action in which black car-buyers claimed the lender discriminated against them. Primus will limit dealers' discretion to mark up individual customers' interest rates and offer at least 200,000 pre-approved loans to black consumers, under a settlement filed in court Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn.... | |
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| | | Liz Claiborne to buy maker of luxury accessories | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:29:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK Liz Claiborne Inc., moving to expand its reach into luxury department stores, Wednesday said it agreed to acquire privately held Kate Spade LLC, a maker of high-end fashion accessories, for $124 million in cash. The deal, expected to close late this year, includes an undisclosed amount of assumed debt. New York-based Kate Spade, which makes the Kate Spade and Jack Spade brands, had net sales of about $84 million for the year ended July 30. Its product line includes handbags, small leather goods, accessories, luggage and baby products. Kate Spade sells in U.S. department stores, including Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's, as well as 19 Kate Spade stores, four Kate Spade outlets and one Jack Spade store. Kate Spade also has distributors in Asia and licensing agreements for shoes, eyewear, tabletop and paper products.... | |
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| | | Lands' End launches new line of baby clothes | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 6:48:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Dodgeville-based Lands' End is unveiling a new line of clothing and accessories for newborns, babies and toddlers. The Lands' End Baby line will fit newborns through toddlers of 24 months, featuring soft, comfortable fabrics, all of which are adorned with details and delicate stitching. "Our goal was to design fashionable and highly functional clothes for babies and toddlers," said Bradley O'Brien, vice president of design for the company. "Unlike picture-perfect outfits that hang in the closet while your baby grows out of them, Lands' End Baby is perfect to wear every day, and adorable too." The new line features "soft" colors of pink, blue, green and classic patterns. The Lands' End Baby line will be available online at www.landsend.com and in 50 Lands' End Baby specialty shops within select Sears stores.... | |
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| | | Thursday October 26, 2006 By Cathrin Schaer | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:47:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | Craft has come a long way, baby. Gone are the tea cosies, toilet-roll-cover dollies and baby quilts of your granny's day. A new generation of young women and men are reclaiming their forebears' handiwork and making it their own - in a decidedly fashionable way. Often they're not even calling it craft. .... | |
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| | | Baby shop | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:46:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | A YOUNG North Devon mum is set to open a brand new maternity and designer baby wear shop in Barnstaple on Saturday, October 28.Kate Staddon, 25 from Combe Martin, is opening Glow Maternity & Baby in Market Street with a range of modern, trendy and affordable maternity wear, accessories, new baby gifts and designer baby clothes.Mum to Chloe, eight, Ryan, seven, and Cayden, two, Kate said she had spent a long time researching what mums twould like to see in Glow. .... | |
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| | | Cell Phones Making a Fashion Statement | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:46:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | For Denise Albert, choosing a cell phone has nothing to do with ring tones, instant messages or megapixels. "To me, it's what it looks like," said Albert, a 53-year-old campaign fundraiser from suburban Powell. "I want a good design. Period." Albert represents a fashion trend marketers are tapping into as they offer mobile phones with sleeker designs and in more colors, such as blue and pink, and accessories ranging from charms and stickers to crystals and tiny designer purses. While some accessories are for necessity -- such as in-car chargers -- others are for personalization. "Where we had A or B, now we have A through Z," said Neil Strother, research director for mobile devices at The NPD Group market research firm. Cell phone accessories -- from decorations, to holsters to handsfree devices -- bring in $1 billion a year at the retail level in the U.S.... | |
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| | | US cafes, celebs take up knitting | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:48:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Move over granny. Knitting's image in the United States as a pastime for the blue-rinse set is being recast, as it gains cachet with a younger crowd drawn by celebrity knitters and the emergence of "knit cafes." With knitted hats, ponchos and bags appearing on catwalks, fashionistas have started to create their own scarves and accessories, armed with needles and balls of wool. British comedienne Tracey Ullman is one of the new pack of celebrity knitters - boasting of her skill at a recent event in New York where she was launching a modern-day knitting guide she co-authored called "Knit 2 Together." Ullman said she learned to knit as a child growing up in England, taught by her mother, but it was not until years later that she became an avid knitter as a way to wind down - but became frustrated by the lack of trendy patterns.... | |
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| | | The mary-kateandashley Brand Launches Global E-Commerce Web-Store ... | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:46:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES & SECAUCUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen today announced the launch of a worldwide direct to consumer e-commerce operation at www.shopmary-kateandashley.com, offering a selection of the mary-kateandashley brand apparel, accessories, fragrance, cosmetics, and home goods. eFashionSolutions, LLC will manage all of the mary-kateandashley brand's e-commerce operations including website design, digital photography, direct marketing to consumers, online retail sales, payments and shipments for the brand. "With this dedicated online store we can further present our fashion, health and beauty and lifestyle brand to international consumers," says Ashley Olsen. "This is the obvious next step for our online strategy and supports our brand in the online and offline world." "The world is moving at a faster pace," Mary-Kate Olsen says.... | |
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| | | Sizzle | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:51:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | America may be falling for America Ferrera, the star of ABC's Ugly Betty -- an underdog that has become the most-watched new series of the fall television season so far. The comedy, which stars Ferrera as a plain Queens girl who pushed her way into the fashion world, was seen by 16.1 million people in its ABC debut Thursday night, according to Nielsen Media Research. All but about a half-dozen of the 24 new series the broadcast networks are introducing this fall have made it onto the air already, and Ugly Betty stands at No. 1. The show did it without the advantage of a strong program airing ahead of it. Shows like Shark and Brothers & Sisters that have had strong debuts were helped because they followed CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Desperate Housewives. Ugly Betty opened the night at 8 p.m.... | |
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