
The fashion industry is entering a new growth cycle with a bigger focus on customers' price, quality and style expectations than in the mid-2000s, prompting brands to renew their design teams, executives said this week.
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The fashion industry is entering a new growth cycle with a bigger focus on customers' price, quality and style expectations than in the mid-2000s, prompting brands to renew their design teams, executives said this week.
Italian fashion brand Valentino said on Tuesday that 2011 had started well and fended off rumors it was preparing to put itself on the auction block.
It's getting to be springtime in Paris, but for Karl Lagerfeld it was the moment to send a chill of autumn through the Grand Palais on Tuesday as he presented a tomboyish Chanel fall-winter collection.
Kenzo spirited Paris back in time, mining four decades of in-house design to create a sumptuous line of fairy-tale folkloric costumes to ring in its own 40th birthday.
Valentino's owners plan to build up the Italian fashion house before selling it and are not putting out feelers to potential buyers, its chief executive said, responding to speculation a deal could be afoot.
Italy's Valentino has pinned down the right balance for the fashion brand whose founder retired last year with its latest womenswear collection receiving "great response" from press and buyers, its CEO said.
Wartime movie-star suits at Jean-Paul Gaultier and delicate black dresses at Valentino wrapped up the season's haute couture shows in Paris on Wednesday 8 July.
Fashion group Valentino said it expects 2009 to be a tough year in luxury retail but has seen resilience in quality labels such as Marlboro and Hugo Boss.
Everything was fine and dandy at the Chanel ready-to-wear show for autumn-winter on Tuesday, where Karl Lagerfeld refused to let the global recession spoil his party.
The haute couture shows for spring-summer 2009, which begin on Monday, have slimmed down in response to the global financial crisis, spread over three days instead of four and with fewer catwalk presentations.