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...year detour in China. She was 19 when she decided to join her elder sister Fiona, then a menswear designer, at a Canadian company called Ports International. The company had its heyday in the '70s and early '80s when its clothes were carried by stores like Bergdorf Goodman. But by 1989 the brand had lost some of its stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move the company's operations to Xiamen and relaunch the brand to cater...
...DECEMBER 2003, Robert Burke, then fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, was in Paris giving a talk on the booming business of fur accessories when he looked around the ballroom at the Hotel George V and noticed that a quarter of the seats were filled with men in business suits. During dinner and coffee breaks at the two-day luxury conference, the suits from places like Bear, Stearns cornered Burke and bombarded him with questions about luxury businesses?which ones had potential to add secondary lines and which ones could expand with worldwide licensing...
...Bottega Veneta Pepe Nappa trench, Cocco Nabuk bag and Lungarno shoe ($6,250, $13,890 and $650, bottegaveneta.com 3 Chanel Soft Touch eyeshadow ($26.50, chanel.com 4 Patek Philippe Annual Calendar watch ($29,950, patek.com 5 Versace patent-leather heel ($740, versace.com 6 Kara Ross gold cuff ($7,500, at Bergdorf Goodman, 212-753-7300) 7 Eames lounge chair (price on request at Herman Miller...
Robert Burke, who heads his own consulting business in New York City and was previously with Bergdorf Goodman, says a single salesperson there writes several million dollars' worth of orders for the label each season. Burke even mentions Albert Kriemler, whose name is still far from well known, within the designer superleague: "Albert is unwavering in who he is appealing to. You look at the great designers?Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Giorgio Armani?and what links them is they stick to their own aesthetic, they stick with their customer...
...decided it was important to not just have a single brand. So we created a multibrand, multichannel distribution concept, where you're selling 20 to 10,000 garments. This allows us to go from junior to haute couture, understand consumers from Tokyo to Wisconsin and mass merchants to Bergdorf Goodman. We're going to make sure that every one of our 16 brands has a voice and a very differentiated model." Their slew of brands includes BCBGirls, BCBG Attitude (men's ready-to-wear), Max & Cleo (dresses), Noun (tops and sweaters), Maxime (pants) and young contemporary labels...