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• When profits go out of fashion; Luxury goods.(Trouble in luxury goods)

  - 2003-07-05

  Things are not looking pretty in the luxury-goods industry THE worst three months he can remember. That is how Domenico De Sole, boss of Gucci, recently described conditions in the luxury-goods business. "It was the story of 'The Perfect Storm'. Everything that could go...

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• Dress modes.(clothing industry)

  - 2001-09-01

  From Gucci to New Look, the fashion world moves so fast that the new black can be the old red by the time it hits a store's bank account. As fashion week launches on to catwalks around the world, Adrienne Margolis asks what new trends are about...

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• Dress modes

  - 2001-09-01

  From Gucci to New Look, the fashion world moves so fast that the new black can be the old red by the time it hits a store's bank account. As fashion week launches on to catwalks around the world, Adrienne Margolis asks what new trends are about to hit the...

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• Prada prepares to strut its stuff on the market

  - 2001-04-01

  PRADA, the Milan-based luxury goods group, is believed to have pencilled in a May flotation in a move that will inflame its power struggle with rivals LVMH, Gucci and Pinault Printemps Redoute. A source close to Prada named May as the preferred date for the share offering,...

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• LVMH Makes Announcement: Dutch Supreme Court Annuls Enterprise Chamber Decision Which Authorized PPR/Gucci Agreement of March 1999

  - 2000-09-27

  Business Editors PARIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 27, 2000 The Dutch Supreme Court today announced its decision in favour of LVMH in the Gucci matter. Following the advice of the Advocate General, the Supreme Court has annulled the May 27, 1999 judgement of the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of...

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• The Month in Fashion.

  - 2000-05-01

  Tommy Eyes Calvin, LVMH Gobbles Up Pucci and McQueen Does Jeans. Planet fashion was as foreign as Mars this month--a place where decaying beauty sells for millions and where dogs get modeling contracts. We're not kidding: * Finally, a blockbuster merger, American...

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• Families out of fashion.(family business)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-03-04

  NEW YORK THE late Gianni Versace learnt his craft sewing at his mother's knee in Calabria. With his mother, brother and sister, he built a fashion empire that catapulted him to astonishing riches. Giorgio Armani, who is 65, still runs the fashion business that...

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• The $850m handbag

  - 1999-10-15

  Women who must have the must-have fashions of the season will pay pounds 1,335 for this furry bag. The man from Louis Vuitton paid several hundred million more than that. Why? Because we're not just talking trendy, ...

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• LVMH trumps Pinault in battle for future of Gucci

  - 1999-03-20

  THE BATTLE for control of Gucci took a dramatic turn yesterday when the Italian fashion house announced plans to sell a 40 per cent shareholding to Francois Pinault, the billionaire French businessman, in an attempt to fight off LVMH, the luxury goods group controlled by Bernard Arnault. However,...

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• Luxury Goods Maker Gucci Gets Investor Support Against Rival's Bid.

  - 1999-02-28

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 26 -- The fracas that is LVMH's under-the-table bid for rival luxury goods firm Gucci intensified today with some of the Italian fashion house's biggest shareholders heartily supporting the management, writes Helen Slingsby. US firm Scudder...

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