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...executive who immediately recognized the brand's rich heritage and set to work revitalizing Valextra as a kind of Italian Hermès. In addition to rehiring original craftsmen, Suppancig, 44, also reconstructed both the company's product and its image. In September he opened a 500-sq-m store and headquarters on Milan's Via Manzoni. The minimal designs were soon back on the arms of fashionistas, including the house's trademark bag, "Punch," originally created in 1951. The bag comes in bright colors like kelly green and fuchsia and is made with 19th century techniques, including "boarding" treatment...
European retailers sure didn't have a holly jolly Christmas. The annual end-of-year shopping orgy can account for as much as 40% of a retailer's annual sales, but most of the tallying so far has left the big stores crying "Bah, humbug." And the bad news kicked in even earlier. British supermarket chain J Sainsbury last week said its same-store sales, excluding gasoline, fell 1.2% in the third quarter. Two months earlier, the company had declared a $72.5 million pretax loss for the first half - the first loss in its 135-year history...
Judge Teresa Carr Deni ruled that Nader Ali, whom witnesses saw beat Lea F. Sullivan ’01 with a baseball bat after she emerged from a Philadelphia Whole Foods store, is fit to participate in a preliminary hearing set for March...
...chefs. The youngest person ever to be awarded three Michelin stars?and the only one of his generation to receive the same accolade for two restaurants at the same time?Ducasse was handpicked by Chanel Japan president Richard Collasse to create "a contemporary space dedicated to food" within the store. The result is one of Tokyo's hottest restaurants, Beige Tokyo, tel: (81-3) 5159 5500. Named after one of Chanel's signature colors, Beige Tokyo is described by Ducasse as being a world away from his exclusive venues in Paris and Monaco. "It's accessible to everyone," he says...
...Fresh, the Boston-based bath-and-body brand, has opened Espace, an in-store spa that encourages clients who come in for treatment to try new products. "These individual appointments allow us to have a better understanding of our clients' needs," says Lev Glazman, who, along with his wife Alina Roytberg, founded the Fresh brand in 1991 with a line of all-natural soaps that the couple sold out of a Boston storefront. These days Fresh includes skin-care, body-care and makeup lines. Glazman calls Fresh's latest service, which is available in New York, Las Vegas...