Fashion Industry
Fashion Retailers Missing Out On Sales
Fashion retailers are losing out on billions of dollars a year because sales staff are only engaging with 7% of customers who enter the store, yet if they approached four more customers in every 100 and were more aware of the all-important buying signals, sales would increase by 7%. Additionally, encouraging customers to use welcoming and well-serviced fitting rooms would see an additional uplift of 5%.
The Search Is On For The Next Naomi Campbell
Who will be the next supermodel of Caribbean heritage? Pulse, the Caribbean’s number one modeling agency, is extending its search to find the next Caribbean supermodel. Following the huge success of the agency’s annual Caribbean Model Search (CMS), this year Pulse has decided to include young British women of Caribbean heritage in their hunt to find a new catwalk superstar.
The UK’s Best Bikini Movie Moment Revealed
Ursula Andress rising from the sea in her famous white bikini has been voted the best bikini scene of all time, in a new survey. The 1962 scene, from James Bond's Dr No, sees her character Honey Ryder walk out of the ocean in the trademark two piece leaving men drooling over her and women wanting to be her.
Nordstrom To Open Rack Store At Park Lane In Dallas
Seattle-based Nordstrom, Inc., a leading US fashion specialty retailer, announced today that it will open a 35,000-square-foot Rack store at Park Lane in Dallas in fall 2008. A highly anticipated development, Park Lane will be a mixed-use project with more than 2.9 million square feet of retail, hotel, residential and office space.
Burberry Opens In Antwerp
Burberry has announced the opening of a 155 square metre/ 1560 square feet store in Antwerp, located at 29 Schutterhofstraat, stretching across one floor. The design concept is based on the Burberry London flagship store, which is located on New Bond Street in London.
Moscow Fashion Designer Creates A New Trend
If you want to be chic this spring, you wear Conti. The Russian fashion designer Violetta Litvinova is setting the latest trend in spring and summer fashion for 2007, by tailoring dresses, hats, scarves and even place mats for her collection made from tyre cord.
Kylie Puts On A Show For H&M Shanghai
Today at 11am, H&M flung open the doors of its pristine new four-storey shop in Shanghai's bustling Lu Wan shopping heartland. The crowd of shoppers who had been waiting since early morning escalated to 700 people.
WAG’s Boutique - The Finale
Ten WAGs have worked their Jimmy Choos off to make WAGs Boutique an overwhelming success and now the final whistle is ready to be blown on this game of two halves. The battle of the tills is almost over and now it’s down to the public to decide who will be voted Queen of the WAGs!
Abercrombie & Fitch To Open Savile Row Flagship
On March 22 at 10:00 a.m. Abercrombie & Fitch will open a flagship at 7 Burlington Gardens. This will be the Company's first European store. Dealing closely with English Heritage, the store has been developed as a sensitive restoration and conversion of a Grade II* listed building, originally built as a home in 1725.
H&M Opens First Store In Asia
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, the international fashion retailer, has opened its first store in East Asia, on March 10 at 68 Queen's Road, Central Hong Kong.
Sale Of Iconic Dress Funds Education In India
The money raised from the sale of Audrey Hepburn’s stunning Givenchy gown at Christie’s South Kensington on December 5, 2006, is to be used to fund fifteen new educational centres in Bengal, bringing hope to poverty-stricken children in some of India’s most deprived areas.
Harrods - A Congestion Free Zone
Last weekend, Harrods Chairman Mohamed Al Fayed issued complimentary £8 Harrods Shopping Cards to those customers who had driven to the store in advance of today's western extension of the Congestion Zone which will include Harrods.
WAGS Hoodies Become London's Hottest Fashion Item
Forget London Fashion Week, Bows Boutique is where all the fashionistas have been heading this week! The Wags Boutique store has been deluged by queues of eager shoppers. All were anxious to get their hands on an unlikely fashion item which has completely sold out due to high demand after the WAGs were seen wearing them on the ITV2 show.
Litegreen Fashion Week
Consumer information website Litegreen unveils a new survey showing that when it comes to the clothes you buy, price and principle can go hand in hand. ‘Estethica’, London Fashion Week’s area dedicated to promoting eco-sustainable designs is in its second season - so it’s obvious the new trend in fashion is ‘doing the right thing’.
Could You Be Britain’s Next Kate Moss?
Europe’s premiere model agency, Models 1, have turned to the Internet to find the new face of 2007. The lucky winners will win contracts with the agency, home to supermodels Yasmin Le Bon and Twiggy.