February 1, 2012

Safilo to end Balenciaga licence after 2012

Feb 1 - Italy's No.2 eyewear maker Safilo said on Wednesday it would not renew a licence agreement with Balenciaga once the accord expires at the end of this year.

Balenciaga F/W 2012-13 collection

Safilo said in a statement its sales of Balenciaga-branded eyewear totalled around 3 million euros last year.

Smaller Italian peer Marcolin said on Wednesday it had reached a preliminary agreement to produce Balenciaga eyewear for five years starting from 2013.

Balenciaga is owned by French luxury group PPR.

(Reporting by Antonella Ciancio)

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4/23/12
Pringle of Scotland continues its come-back
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PPR's Redcats attracts nine bidders
...Boucheron and Balenciaga, tried to sell Redcats but pulled the sale when it became evident that it would not get its preferred price of 1.5 billion euros ($1.97 billion). Barclays said the disposal was still...
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4/12/12
Balenciaga's personal archives on show for first time
...Cristobal Balenciaga, considered a pivotal influence on 20th century fashion, amassed a vast personal archive which has never gone on public show until now, 40 years after his death.
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3/1/12
Balenciaga does "The Office" for Paris fashion week
...Balenciaga gave the fashion world a high-style, highly finished glimpse at corporate glamour on Thursday in a fashion show set in an office tower featuring voluminous shapes and blocks of colour.
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2/19/12
PPR revamps board to focus on luxury, sport
...Boucheron and Balenciaga, posted recurring full-year operating income of 1.6 billion euros ($2.09 billion) against 1.37 billion in 2010 as strong luxury profits helped compensate for a big drop at its Fnac retail...
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1/31/12
Balenciaga choses Kristen Stewart as the face of its new fragrance
...chosen by Balenciaga for its latest perfume, to be launched this fall. She will walk in the footsteps of Charlotte Gainsbourg, who since 2010 has been the muse for Balenciaga Paris, the brand’s first fragrance.
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1/24/12
French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online
...protege of Balenciaga -- had their heydey in the 1960s and 70s, rivalling Chanel and Dior, before being sold to Japanese investors in the 1980s. A decade later Courreges and his wife Coqueline bought back the...
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12/27/11
Vogue's vast archives make online leap from paper
...dress by Balenciaga from an era when pleats were all the rage -- will be swept back to the September 15, 1939 issue and an otherwise hard-to-find crisp line drawing of a black number from the Spanish...
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12/13/11
PPR names CFO as Palus role expanded
...Gucci and Balenciaga, is focusing on luxury and lifestyle and shifting away from retail, and is building a sports and lifestyle division based around the German Puma brand. (Reporting by James Regan; Editing by...
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12/13/11
S.Koreans go mass-market, online for luxury goods
...Ferragamo and Balenciaga brands. "Many of my friends received one or more Chanel bags as wedding gifts and seeing them carry one made me want to get one too," said Gina Ryu, a 31-year old restaurateur,...
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11/3/11
Alexander McQueen launches first China boutique
...Noten and Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen's new Beijing store The new boutique can be found in Sanlitun North Village, a luxury shopping centre in Beijing. To celebrate the occasion, Joyce and Alexander...
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10/6/11
No sombre mood allowed on Paris catwalks
...Laurent, Balenciaga and Haider Ackermann.Overall, fashion critics said Paris Fashion Week was so infused with positive energy, it was hard to believe a global crisis was brewing."As much as media is painting a...
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10/5/11
Alexander McQueen sees feminine strength for spring
...Gucci, Balenciaga and Stella McCartney.Alexander McQueen - SS 2012 / Photo: Pixel FormulaUsing colours of buttery ivory, gold, salmon and violet, Burton somehow managed to reconcile weightlessness with structure in...
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10/4/11
Insight: Gucci, Tiffany target Chinese banks
...Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and Yves Saint Laurent brands - jointly filed a civil suit in U.S. Court in the Southern District of New York against a group of individuals and businesses in China running...
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10/4/11
Yves Saint Laurent shows restrained femininity
...McQueen, Balenciaga and Stella McCartney, who showed a girly, breezy collection earlier on Monday. (Reporting By Alexandria Sage; editing by Andrew Roche)
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10/2/11
Paris defends title as fashion research lab
...Balenciaga on Thursday proved yet again that Paris remained one of the world's most experimental fashion capitals despite efforts by rivals Milan, New York and London to upstage it.
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9/22/11
Fashion app brings window shopping to the iPhone
...platforms or a Balenciaga bag for instance, reveals information such as price, store directions and comments from other users. The app also includes a What's Hot section, listing the items that are currently...
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9/20/11
Burberry and Christopher Kane light up London's catwalks
...former Balenciaga designer Alistair Carr.But the other smash-hit show at London came from Christopher Kane, watched closely by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who appeared to like the playful plastic floral...
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8/8/11
PPR tightens control over Puma with stake increase
...Gucci and Balenciaga, last year decided to build a new sports and lifestyle division based around the German brand with the jumping cat logo. PPR declined to comment on the reason behind the increase. Shares in...
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7/26/11
LVMH set to dazzle with first-half figures
...Laurent and Balenciaga, is set to report first-half figures on Friday. (Reporting by Astrid Wendlandt and Pascale Denis; Editing by David Hulmes)
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3/22/12
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Italian fashion designers look to China for salvation
...group PPR which owns it.PPR last week posted a net profit up 2.3 percent to 986 million euros in 2011 with revenues up 11.1 percent, and the group said it was "very optimistic" that Gucci would continue...
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