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PARIS — SMCP, the owner of Maje, Sandro and Claudie Pierlot, reported a 12.9 percent rise in second-quarter growth and increased sales guidance as the company powered ahead with store openings around the world. Sales at the group totaled 241.3 million euros, up 15.2 percent at constant currency, with the fastest growth coming from Asia, up 47.7 percent. SMCP opened 47 points of sales in the second quarter, bringing the figure to 114 over the past 12 months. The target for full-year sales growth has been raised to more than 13 percent at constant rates, an upward revision from the previous range of between 11 percent and 13 percent. Business was also bolstered by a push into the digital realm, which the company highlighted in its statement. “I am especially delighted with our solid digital sales figures that clearly demonstrate the excellent implementation of our digital roadmap,” noted Daniel Lalonde, chief executive officer of SMCP. SMCP aims to open between 80 and 90 di...

PARIS — Ever since Spanish group Puig revived Paco Rabanne’s dormant fashion business in 2011, it’s been a tale of two brands. On the one hand, its perfume division has been powered by global bestsellers like 1 Million and Invictus, which trade off an image of conquering masculinity. On the other, the women’s ready-to-wear business has got its groove back under the creative direction of Julien Dossena, who has updated its signature chain mail for the modern era. At times, finding common ground between the two has been something of a stretch, though as the Space Age brand celebrates its 50th anniversary, that is about to change, according to Bastien Daguzan, who took over as general director of Paco Rabanne fashion last year. The company has implemented a new policy, One Rabanne, that aims to unify the two branches to better extract synergies. The strategy won’t come to fruition before 2019, when Paco Rabanne is expected to unveil its first fragrance with creative input from Dossena. “B...

Trends transcend borders, as these street-style snaps attest. Fantasy camp shirts, flowing dresses, straw accessories and micro bags were spotted on the streets of Cannes, France; Copenhagen; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; New York; Seoul, and Los Angeles. Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook . Read More... from WWDWWD https://ift.tt/2K8tgQh

MILAN — Corneliani is banking on online distribution for its debut in the U.S. direct-to-consumer arena. The Italian luxury men’s wear company today will launch its first-ever online store in the region, which will enable customers across the U.S. to directly purchase from the Corneliani offering, including ready-to-wear, footwear, leather goods and selected pieces from the brand’s Archive Collection. Developed with Italian e-commerce specialist Alkemy, the launch of the U.S. e-commerce initiative follows last January’s debut of the brand’s online stores in Europe and Russia. “I think that companies can no longer ignore the importance of integrating the brick-and-mortar and online [channels],” said Corneliani chief executive officer Paolo Roviera. “I believe that the distribution channels should be managed in a holistic way. If the physical store is the hub where a brand’s values and creative ideas come to life, e-commerce is its window in the digital world...

Lauren Miller, a pretty and petite brunette, could have been overshadowed by her husband Seth Rogen, whose booming voice and outsize personality are familiar to fans of films such as “Knocked Up,” “Superbad” and “Pineapple Express,” where the actor turned the high-school gross-out and man-child genres and stoner humor into an art form. “Seth is certainly funny, but in life he’s not the characters everyone thinks he is,” Miller says. “He’s not ‘on’ every second. He can be quiet. He’s not this big boisterous person and doesn’t need to be the center of attention all the time.” Miller seems perfectly capable of holding her own. She’s even appeared in several of Rogen’s films. “I had a very small part in ‘Superbad’ and a small part in ’50/50.’ After that, I told Seth, ‘I don’t want to have small parts in your movies.’ I’m a voice in ‘Sausage Party,'” says Miller, who made an exception to voice two minor characters in the 2016 animated comedy about the sexual proclivities of supermarket ...

Dawn Dobras has taken the helm at Credo Beauty, the clean beauty retailer started by Sephora veterans Shashi Batra and Annie Jackson in 2015. Dawn Dobras  For Credo, Dobras is thinking big. “We sit here as a leader in clean beauty,” she said. “When I think about that and this as a company, we’re going to be big. There is not a niche play, this is not something for just the high end of a few markets. The industry is slow, and the danger for the industry is not recognizing that consumers don’t want to put harmful chemicals in their bodies.” While she declined to discuss specifics of Credo’s expansion plan, she did say that, for now, she’s focused on learning from the retailer’s first eight locations and planning to “double down” on what is working in those stores, noting they are seeing double-digit comparable sales. “We’re ambitiously looking at growth, both on the retail expansion side, as well as on the digital side,” Dobras noted. Credo is gathering information about the Asian ma...

For its next designer showcase, Hudson’s Bay is right at home. Canada’s biggest department store chain will put the spotlight on 12 Canadian designers, who will display fall fashion and accessories — all exclusives — within the retailer’s “Discover This Pop-up” format, starting Sept. 4 until November. “It’s really a great representation of rising talent in Canada,” Alison Coville, president of Hudson’s Bay, told WWD on Monday. “It’s a  good mix of product — men’s, women’s and gender-neutral brands. It’s really about the contemporary customer. There are fashion-forward, structured pieces but there are definitely also items anyone can wear to work and very wearable pieces, from track pants to T-shirts.” Atelier Guarin will be featured at Hudson’s Bay.  Showcasing Canadian designers marks the fourth iteration of Hudson’s Bay’s “Discover This Pop-up” format. Previously, emerging Japanese designers, eco-conscious brands and higher-end ath-leisure brands were presented. “Our new Dis...

NEW YORK — Thanks to Conor McGregor and his meltdown at the Barclays Center in April, Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters have gotten a reputation for fighting outside the ring as well as inside the cage. McGregor was filmed throwing a hand-truck into a bus backstage at the arena that wound up injuring two fellow fighters. He pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn court last week, was sentenced to community service and served with an order of protection against the other fighters. So it’s probably not all that surprising to learn that bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and number-one ranked welterweight Stephen Thompson have now had their own grudge match. But in this case, when Dillashaw, who is 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 135 pounds, was filmed leaping across a desk to go after the 6-foot-tall, 170-pound Thompson, it was all in fun. The video, which is being released today, is the first glimpse into a partnership between the UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, an...

What next for Baselworld? With the news Monday that Swatch Group, the world’s largest watch company and Baselworld’s largest exhibitor, is pulling out of the fair, the question becomes what its organizers do next. Swatch owns not only the famed inexpensive watch brand, but also Longines, Tissot, Breguet and Omega. “Today everything has become more transparent, fast-moving and instantaneous. Accordingly, a different rhythm and a different approach are needed,” Swatch Group said in an e-mailed statement. So far, other companies have signaled their intent to stick with the event, including Breitling and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, another show heavyweight with brands Hublot, Zenith, Bulgari and Tag Heuer. In addition to attending Baselworld in March, the group has for two years parked a boat on Lake Geneva to tap into the flow of fairgoers at rival fair Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, which takes place in Geneva in January and features mainly the brands owned by...

Kiss Products Inc., best known in the mass market for artificial nails and eyelashes, is getting into the K-beauty cosmetics business. The Korean-American brand — its founder is of South Korean ancestry — is launching Joah, Korean for “I like it,” this month exclusively on cvs.com. In September, it will be distributed in about 4,000 CVS doors, according to Andrea Harrison, senior director, divisional merchandising manager of beauty at CVS. This is the latest move for CVS as the retailer doubles down in the beauty category. In the past two years, CVS has added more exclusives and first-to-market beauty launches to keep shoppers from migrating online or to specialty doors. While CVS stocks some K-beauty cosmetics in select doors, Joah is a full line consisting of 158 stockkeeping units — 23 eye items, 19 brow products, 64 lip choices, 47 face options and five brushes. CVS will position the line in prime end of aisle locations. The brand is thought to be the first full-range mass K-beauty...

What’s the secret to a successful influencer partnership? Data, according to Amber Venz Box, cofounder and president of RewardStyle. Venz Box launched RewardStyle, an invitation-only platform that allows bloggers and influencers to monetize their content, in 2011. The Dallas-based company now works with 4,500 brands and 30,000 influencers and last year, drove more than a billion dollars in sales to retail partners through its Liketoknow.it channel. Influencers are among the leading voices in fashion and beauty, which is why brands are now competing with each other to work with them. But according to Venz Box, many are making the mistake of not using data to inform who they work with. “Last year, over 80 percent of brands engaged in some type of influencer marketing and a large percentage of those had over $25,000 budgets for influencer [marketing],” said Venz Box. “The problem is they’re investing in influencer [marketing] because they know it’s a trending topic, but they’re using ...

In the days leading up to the opening of “Counterpoint: Selections From the Peter Marino Collection” at the Southampton Arts Center, the architect known for designing luxurious flagships for global fashion brands made a cryptic reference about a gift he planned to bestow on the summer enclave. At Thursday’s opening reception, Marino came clean, and revealed he’d established the Peter Marino Art Foundation. The architect bought 11 Jobs Lane, a two-story, nearly 8,000-square-foot building adjacent to the arts center. Designed in 1895 by R.H. Robertson, it opened to the public the following year as the Rogers Memorial Library. Marino, whose architectural practice incorporates art, including site-specific commissions into retail spaces, plans to restore the building with construction starting in September 2019. The foundation will feature a permanent public exhibition of artworks from Marino’s collection. “I’ll show old stuff and new stuff,” he said. “The foundation will beco...

Last week’s extensive layoffs at the New York Daily News are the just the latest drop in a sea of newsroom cuts the last decade. Nearly a quarter of newsroom jobs in the U.S., including at digital-only publications, have been eliminated since 2008, dropping from about 114,000 positions in 2008 to 88,000 last year, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. The bulk of cuts have been at newspapers. The number of employees, like reporters, editors, photographers and videographers, at newspapers specifically is down 45 percent since 2008, when there were roughly 71,000 in those roles. Now, there are about 39,000. The reduction at newspapers, driven mainly by conglomerates looking to slash their way to profitability, is so deep as to be little improved by the hiring going on within digital newsrooms. Within newsrooms that operate online-only, hiring increased 79 percent to 13,000 in 2017, from 7,400 in 2008. While growth is growth, the total number of digital newsroom jobs now is ...

Carol Hamilton, formerly group president of the L’Orèal Luxe USA division, is now group president in charge of acquisitions. In the newly created role, Hamilton has been tapped to oversee acquisitions across all of beauty — something she sees as increasingly important given the market’s shifting landscape. “As I was thinking about this and discussing it with management, it became more and more clear that there was this opportunity to really look at acquisitions from a helicopter view, given the blurring of the channels,” Hamilton said. “Today, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether a brand is luxury or mass.” The role includes scouting, courting and preparing for brand acquisitions in the U.S. across all L’Oréal divisions. It’s an extension of work Hamilton has already been doing — she was instrumental in the acquisitions of Clarisonic, Urban Decay, the Proenza Schouler license and It Cosmetics, and helped integrate those brands into L’Oréal. “Carol’s ability to identify upcoming brands, ...

LONDON — Christopher Gibbs, the British antiques dealer, interior decorator and aesthete who became a lodestar for Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, has died at 80 in Tangier, Morocco. Gibbs, who was known for his bohemian, eclectic interiors and for championing shabby chic, had moved to Morocco, to a home overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar, after selling antiques, art and decorative pieces from his manor house in Oxfordshire at a high-profile Christie’s auction. Gibbs, who went to Eton but was later expelled, was fascinated by art, objects and beauty even as a schoolboy, and in his Sixties youth became a trend-setting dandy, turning heads in London in his flared trousers and flower-print shirts. He became editor of the shopping guide in the quarterly Men in Vogue, further cementing his style credentials, and hung out with the likes of John Paul Getty Jr. and Jagger. He was a great sartorial influence on The Rolling Stones, who were in awe of his posh background, social connecti...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Ma Maniére is officially open, but it’s not open. Because of the hordes that lined H Street in Northeast D.C. on Friday, store owner James Whitner told the crowd that he’d postponed the opening, even as a few still meandered about hoping he would change his mind. “We will never release a sneaker from this location again,” said Whitner, who on that day was releasing the Nike Off-White Prestos, the Adidas Yung-1s and several Jordans. “I’m going to try to tie releases to community outreach initiatives and if you participate, you can buy. I can’t change anything if I don’t change anything.” For brands such as J.W. Anderson, Greg Lauren, Comme des Garçons Play and Visvim, Whitner’s A Ma Maniére concept is a chance for the brands to introduce themselves to a covetable customer. In most cases, Whitner opens shops in secondary markets such as Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.; Pittsburgh; Houston, and Tampa Bay, Fla., and is the first person to bring these brands to a particular...

Gen Z gets beauty inspiration from people they “know,” but YouTube is their go-to source for product recommendation and because cost is a top priority, they like to buy at big-box stores and drugstores. Those are the key takeaways from the latest 2018 Beauty Insights Survey from Sweety High, a digital media company for Gen Z females between the ages of 12 and 22. And there’s one other interesting factoid: They have little interest in subscription boxes. Sweety High was founded in 2009, and funding is from several high-net-worth individuals. Frank Simonetti is the cofounder and chief executive officer, and his background is in the entertainment and content business sectors. According to Simonetti, “The concept that online buying is killing retail as we know it isn’t happening in beauty, which is a social buying process for Gen Z. It’s the hallmark for girls to show their financial independence on their terms. It’s having luxury goods they can afford, even if they’re not rich. They can’t...

  Bigelow’s new site.  In its 180-year history, C.O. Bigelow has become legendary for its ability to tell brand stories. But faced with how to parlay the Greenwich Village mainstay’s appeal into a wider audience, Bigelow’s president Ian Ginsberg knew he had to merge the old-world charm of the store with the digital world. “We’re a historical retailer competing in a modern world and we’re an indie retailer competing against giants,” Ginsberg said. The reality is, his store faces challenges of foot traffic, even in Manhattan. “Many shoppers go to Amazon first,” said Ginsberg, who acknowledged his store must vie with e-commerce behemoths who can offer value and loyalty programs. “It can be hard to compete.” Undaunted, Bigelow just launched a totally rebuilt web site, one of the most powerful tools in his arsenal, Ginsberg said. The site promotes products Ginsberg has personally hand-picked in his travels as well as company-distributed brands like Proraso, Marvis, Carthusia and Gü...