del.icio.us fashion links for October 9, 2009:
- Giorgio Armani extends designer touch to new mobile
Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani presented a new 700-euro ($1,032) mobile phone on Friday, a stylish device aimed at complementing the designer's suits.Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2085988#ixzz0TSMoboI4
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There have been plenty of beautiful clothes at Paris fashion week, but the trendy looks reveal how hard the industry is struggling to grab shoppers' attention: micro miniskirts, transparent blouses, pointy "Mad Men" bras, and panties worn as shorts. - Fashion Week – Taming of the Runway – NYTimes.com
IF success is measured by distance traveled, then this has been the Paris season that ran the gamut — as Dorothy Parker once famously sniped about Katharine Hepburn’s acting range — from A to B.Chic happens, and it happened and happened again and happened some more, a relentless exercise in disciplined good taste that dominated the runways here all week, to the clear delight of the multinational owners of so many French labels and of the press and also of retailers anxious to come out the other side of the recession alive.
- Gulf investor bids for fashion house Lacroix | Deals | Bankruptcy | Reuters
PARIS, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Gulf investor Hassan bin Ali al-Nuaimi, a nephew of the ruler of Ajman, part of the United Arab Emirates, submitted an offer for Christian Lacroix on Thursday, the administrator for the French fashion house said. - Yohji Yamamoto Files for Bankruptcy – dispatch – news – fashion week daily
Christian Lacroix may finally be bailed out of his financial woes, but another iconic fashion house is just beginning. Yohji Yamamoto Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, listing debts of six billion yen, equal to $67.8 million.
