First, I used to run a fashion retail business in China, and before that I worked in apparel and fashion sourcing, so I have a sense of what Gap is getting into.
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Growing emphasis on health in China in recent years is turning sports apparel into fashion.
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And France's Christian Dior , the apparel and fashion designer, is up 51%.
There are more fashion shoes made with fabrics that are produced quickly to coincide with offerings in fashion apparel.
Millennials are the largest demographic purchasing new technological gadgets and fashion apparel.
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Elizabeth Turley ran out of some of her company's sports-fashion apparel after they were featured on the Today Show in November 2011.
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We have an innate advantage in our proprietary brands, which are driven by 45 in-house designers who previously worked for some major fashion apparel brands.
Millennials are also the largest demographic purchasing electronics and fashion apparel.
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High-end fashion apparel and accessories are also fertile ground for investors.
American Apparel is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and retailer of branded fashion and basic apparel.
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Hermes is one of the most recognized brands in the world, having dominated the fashion and apparel industry for 175 years.
Several well-known companies have gone public through SPACs in recent years, including fashion retailer American Apparel, along with the well known New York cupcake chain, Crumbs Bake Shop.
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As Ann releases its Q4 fiscal 2012 earnings on March 8, we expect its strong performance to continue driven by good customer response to its fashion-based apparel, healthy direct-to-consumer growth and balanced pricing strategy.
Now, Nordstrom, the Seattle-based fashion and beauty retailer offering apparel, shoes, makeup and other beauty products, is rolling out mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices throughout their full-line stores, as well as in some of their Nordstrom Rack stores.
Men's items now account for half of the global luxury apparel market, according to the British Fashion Council.
Later this year the 930-store Kohl's chain will expand its Elle fashion offerings and debut new Fila apparel and footwear.
In addition to eventually adding more functionality and a consumer-facing label to the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition plans to add more high-end fashion companies to its membership roster in the near future, which would differentiate it from virtually every other sustainability initiative in the apparel industry.
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The profitability of apparel retailers depends largely on their ability to correctly gauge fashion trends in each season.
Metersbonwe, a Chinese casual-wear fashion company, uses Western models to showcase their apparel.
While this lawsuit may seem superficial on the surface, the reality in the fashion industry is that few legal protections are available for apparel designs.
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Ivanka runs her own eponymous fashion company, which includes lines of jewelry, handbags, footwear, apparel and a fragrance.
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With a small workroom and studio and a mix of fashion groupies and students alongside him, McQueen turned out most of the apparel himself.
The onetime steakhouse owner ran his low-key apparel company, now based in Brisbane, California, for 15 years before becoming a fashion heavyweight.
By combining their fashion savvy with their passion for sustainability and minimalism, they truly serve a niche in the apparel industry that is often talked about but seldomly acted on.
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Undaunted, he caught a ride home, called his insurance company and bought himself a new BMW. A fashion lover he owns 20 pairs of Air Jordans he dreams someday of starting an apparel line called Black Cactus.
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