Marks and Spencer sales rose slightly in the first three months of 2013, as good trading from its food business offset a fall in clothing sales.
Designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough took a trip through the southwest and came up with their fall line of clothing inspired, apparently, by Native Americans they had seen on the road.
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Trevor Little, a professor at the North Carolina State University college of textiles, reckons that the domestically-made share of the American clothing business will fall to about 25%, but stabilise there for the foreseeable future.
"A clothing store's fall fashion lineup e-mail blitz is basically indistinguishable from spam, both for the technology providers and the customer, " says Scott Petry, founder of Postini, an e-mail security management provider in Redwood City, Calif.
It will be easier to wear runway clothing to the office come fall.
In the first three months of the year, Marks and Spencer reported a 3.8% fall in general merchandise sales, which includes clothing.
Retail businesses in the consumer staples sector like food, beverages, clothing and electronics are likely to fall behind the broader market in the first half of 2012, according to Barclays.
The designer is particularly happy with a fabric he calls "technogrid, " which he helped develop and used in clothing as well as bags in his fall collection.
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The clothing business is similar: hemlines may rise and fall, but the spinning, weaving and stitching that create them remain the same.
Ms Hussein says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law that forbids indecent clothing.
The avid car collector helped design the Ferrari Golf Collection Driver to be as sleek looking as the Ferraris he drives, and on the golf course he wears threads from his own clothing line, IJP Designs, which will release its fall line next month.
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Gareth Pugh makes clothing with inflatable properties, serving no functional purpose unless you fall into a pool and the list of fabulously impractical avant-garde designs goes on.
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She's part of UNIQLO's new fall marketing campaign and has collaborated with several designers on limited runs of clothing and accessories, from Gryphon trench coats and Del Toro smoking slippers to a jewelry line with Dannijo bearing her initials.
If faced with a 10% fall in income, most respondents said they would cut spending on food, clothing and going out first, and just 5% would cut back on pension contributions.
Andrew Watson runs a men's clothing shop and wants traders to have a rates holiday to compensate them for the fall-off in business.
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While this means that customers who missed the Rochas coat during the trunk show might be able to find it on the site months later, during the normal fall shopping season, it also means that Moda needs to buy, store and sell a large inventory of clothing, just like a department store or Net-a-Porter.
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