Paco Rabanne dresses for Bric success
So news arrives that the Puig Group, the Spanish beauty/fashion conglomerate that owns the fragrances and fashion of Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne, as well as other super-lucrative...
View ArticleFragrance before fashion
The other day I was talking to Bernd Beetz, the chief executive of Coty, in his office high over Park Avenue, and he noted that “fragrance is now a crucial building block of a brand.” In other words,...
View ArticleTalking points for the fashion season
September is both Back to School! and Back to Fashion Week!, and sic discussion with my children about what they are looking forward to, I've been mulling over what Iam looking forward this fashion...
View ArticleInvesting in Jean Paul Gaultier
After buying Hermes' 45 per cent stake in Jean-Paul Gaultier last year and talking up its development potential, Spanish luxury group Puig has put yet more money where its mouth is and just announced...
View ArticleWhat NASA has to do with New York Fashion Week
The announcement that a plutonium-powered robot named Curiosity has landed on Mars has created great excitement among space-o-philes and NASA-nicks and the rest of the science world. However, along...
View ArticleStakes-raising: Chanel and Paco Rabanne ante up
Forget obvious battlegrounds like stores (who has got the biggest/luxist/most special) or designers; the most heated fights in luxury are clearly taking place behind the scenes, in the back-end and...
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