Today's fashion-conscious company has two tempting trends to choose between.
The company's fashion brands Juicy Couture, Lucky brand and Mexx in Europe and Canada, saw comparable sales decline overall in the fourth quarter.
Second Sight Medical Products developed the world's first working bionic eye, which could soon be available in the US, and fashion company Machina produced the world's first jacket to combine a MIDI controller with motion sensors -- essentially, it's a jacket that turns your body into a synthesizer.
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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It's also a safe bet he's the only person running a major fashion company from a home office in the Sea Pines Resort.
In the year between a university student's recruitment and her start at work, she is sent newsletters, her uniform (designed by staff and voted on at a company fashion show) and assorted company philosophies set down by Ms Yazu's late husband that the new recruit has to memorise.
"Generally, I come up with a name that has something to do with what gave me the impulse to draw it, " he tells CNN from his company's headquarters in the fashion town of Prato, Italy.
This from the likes of a bakery operation in Spain, a Dutch newspaper group, a Rumanian mobile phone company and in the U.S., the fashion clothing companies of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
The company's flotation in 1995 encouraged several public listings among fashion houses.
If the halo slips, Apple may have to content itself with selling its wares just to the select, fashion-conscious bunch who presently make up the company's loyal fan base.
Fern Mallis, the executive director of 7th on Sixth, the company running Fashion Week, is looking forward to Wenlan's show.
Because of her extensive network of influential and affluent moms -- an important demographic -- Stern's company is highly sought after by consumer product brands, entertainment companies and fashion and beauty businesses around the country.
The only significant Chinese company to do a U.S. IPO this year was online fashion retailer Vipshop, which listed its shares in March, only to see them plummet by more than 30 percent in the first few weeks of trading.
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Google is developing ways to direct users of the company's Web-search engine to Boutiques.com when they search for fashion items, Mr. Shah said.
Mr. Ecko, founder of his namesake billion-dollar fashion company, posted a request for a cake resembling a can of Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer for his now seven-year-old son's birthday.
The company's dresses, developed with the help of partner Laura Robbins, a former fashion editor, soon caught on.
Google got some time in the spotlight this week too, as the company's new augmented-reality glasses were trotted down the runway at New York Fashion Week.
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