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Dutch fashion show was held on October, 24 during Shanghai Fashion Week. Creations of college graduates of fashion and design major and four avant-garde designers were presented at this show.
Mattijs Van Bergen brought his "newly luxurious" creations. And Beyond showed his avant garde designs. Daryl Van Wouw's street fashion and Avelon's high end denim designs dazzled at the show. What's more, it was And Beyond and Daryl Van Wouw's second time to present their creations at Shanghai Fashion Week.
The Bangladeshi Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Medina Tannery Taka 1.95 million ($27,738) due to environmental violations.
Located in the Jalalabad area of Chittagong, Medina has been charged with polluting the river Karnaphuli and violating environment laws. DoE inspectors imposed the fine on October 13 after inspecting the tannery.
Tannery waste was being discharged through the Shital Jhorna, Northern canal and the Baman Shahi canal, which fed into the Karnaphuli river.
The owner of the factory had been asked to build an effluent treatment plant (ETP), but had failed to do so. DoE inspectors found that the BOD levels from the tannery discharge were many times higher than the legal limit and the pH of the river water was 4.7.
The tannery has been ordered to relocate by January 31, 2011 otherwise the authorities will shut down the supply of utility services.
High prices, scant offers and negative reports from different origins dominated the week under report. Local mill demand seemed to base more on market analysis than real purchasing interest. The prevailing comments by merchants do not see cotton prices fundamentally lower in the near future.
The lack of available cotton was repeatedly named as the main reason. More interest was further on registered for fine / extra fine cottons, also at very high prices. However, the offers were strongly limited and larger turnovers were made in foreign markets.
The conclusion of contracts in medium staple cottons was reported as follows: West African types for prompt and for dates in the 1st and 2nd quarter 2011; Greek and Spanish descriptions for prompt resp. November 2010 and Central Asian cotton for prompt.
In the fine / extra fine range were traded: Israel Pima for prompt and US pima for dates in the 1st and in the 2nd quarter 2011.
Baci Lingerie, the newest and hottest brand of sexy lingerie, announced they have concluded design on 160 styles of plus size lingerie that will be known as the “Plus Collection”.
Baci Lingerie has finished designing and testing a variety of plus size lingerie based on the 500 styles in their 1st collection and will launch 160 styles to be part of their Plus Collection.
Robert Rosen, Chief Operating Officer of Baci Lingerie said, "We are excited to introduce the Plus Collection which was created to provide an even wider range of Affordable Luxury and to ensure that Baci Lingerie has a style of lingerie for every woman. Our goal, which is the primary focus of our main investor, is to provide the most beautifully designed high quality and best presented lingerie for the lowest price so that every woman in the world has the chance to experience our Affordable Luxury.”
Rosen adds, “The styles will be available end of January 2011, with styles retailing for mostly the same price, if not lower, than our main first collection.” The most shocking and revolutionary part about Baci Lingerie’s Plus Collection is that they will not charge higher prices for our plus size line like many other company are doing in the market. Rosen states, “We will work with even lower markups from our side than charging our higher production costs.” With Baci Lingerie price points for the Plus Collection being the same, if not lower than their first collection prices, there is very little, if any, competition at all in the plus size market.
In the past five months Baci Lingerie has been testing and developing, on the biggest online platform for erotic toys and in the world (based in Europe with over 3,600,000 customers), which styles of plus size lingerie will be top sellers and compiling consumer feedbacks to determine where any flaws, if any, exist. After analyzing every feedback Baci Lingerie finalized the Plus Collection to 160 styles of pure plus size top sellers.
Mr. Rosen declares “We devote a tremendous about of resources to make sure we provide exact what the consumer wants. I have never heard of a lingerie company doing that kind of research and so they can guarantee 100% consumers satisfaction.”
Baci Lingerie is looking forward to meeting new partners and developing new relationship at the Venus show and our future upcoming shows. We invite all interested parties to come share and explore the Baci Lingerie experience.
Gucci is pleased to announce that recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez will star in a special advertising campaign dedicated to the launch of Gucci's new children's collection. In addition, Gucci also announced a new donation to UNICEF's Schools for Africa initiative in honor of the company’s partnership with UNICEF and the launch of the children’s collection.
The new children's collection - represented by the iconic Gucci teddy bear - is divided into two age ranges from 0 to 2 years and 2 to 8 years and will be available in selected Gucci directly operated stores, department and specialty stores from November onwards. The collection comprises apparel, shoes, small leather goods, footwear (up to size 33) and selected accessories, including jewelry, sunglasses, scarves and blankets.
The advertising campaign was shot by photographers Mert and Marcus on location in Malibu. It will break worldwide from November in magazines, newspapers, outdoor and online. Gucci will celebrate the launch of the new children's collection on November 20th, which is Universal Children's Day, with children's parties during the week at six of its most important flagship stores in Milan, London, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Over the course of its relationship with UNICEF since 2005, Gucci has committed more than US$ 9 million and has consistently supported UNICEF’s life-saving treatment, care and prevention programs for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 1 million children have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Over time, the partnership has evolved to focus on education through UNICEF’s ‘Schools for Africa’ initiative, which aims to increase access to quality basic education for millions of children in Africa, with a special emphasis on helping the most disadvantaged – girls, orphans and children living in extreme poverty.
In celebration of its partnership with UNICEF and the launch of its new children's collection Gucci has pledged a further US$ 1 million to UNICEF's ‘Schools for Africa’ initiative with a specific focus on Mozambique and Malawi, where Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini travelled with UNICEF in November 2009 to see firsthand how Gucci’s donations are helping children.
Giannini commented, "I visited Malawi at the end of last year and saw the very difficult situation children face in sub-Saharan Africa, where so many children don’t get the chance to go to school. I saw that UNICEF's Schools for Africa program is successfully providing this opportunity that so many of us take for granted. Every child has the right to an education, and an education is forever."
Giannini continued, "I am honoured that Jennifer Lopez has agreed to work with me on the campaign for the new Gucci children's collection. I have always been a fan of Jennifer's both as a musical artist and an actress, but now most of all as a devoted mother.”
Jennifer Lopez began her relationship with Gucci by attending the fundraising event Gucci hosted in New York on February 6th, 2008, which raised over US$ 2.7 million for UNICEF. "I was particularly inspired when I first met Frida in 2008 at the fundraising event she hosted in New York to benefit UNICEF. When Frida told me about her trip to Malawi and her excitement about launching her new children's collection, I was inspired by her idea to build upon Gucci’s long term support for UNICEF with a donation in honor of the launch of the collection." Lopez added, "As a mother, I am proud to be a part of this campaign to benefit UNICEF's Schools for Africa program
Gucci’s new $1 million donation to UNICEF education programs in Malawi and Mozambique will support activities including constructing classrooms, equipping schools with play areas and clean water and proper sanitation facilities, and implementation of health, nutrition and hygiene programs.
As well as making US$ 250,000 of the US$ 1 million pledge in Jennifer Lopez's name, Gucci is also donating US$ 50,000 to her non-profit organization The Maribel Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and children, and raising the level of medical care available to them.
Models present creations by Egor Zaitsev of Russia during the Russian Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 20, 2010.
Since the first half of this year, several Fujian apparel and footwear enterprises have opened their blogs at Sina''s microblog, including Seven Brand, Septwolves, Cabbeen, Anta and Xtep, while agents of brands like Stava, K-boxing and Peak also enter the "microblog battle", publicizing promotion information, after sales service and activity introduction. The brand battler has already started at microblog and the "microblog" marketing also makes an appearance in the market.
Peak Sport Products Co., Limited, together with its subsidiaries referred to as the “Group”; stock code: 1968) is pleased to announce that its 2011 Q1 and Q2 sales fair orders have recorded a satisfactory growth by value of 25 % and 24 % respectively when compared to the same periods in 2010 and that the same store sales for the third quarter ended 30 September 2010 has grown by 13 % when compared to the same period last year.
Peak’s 2011 Q1 and Q2 sales fair was successfully held at Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center from 18 to 20 September. The Group launched in the sales fair a total of 536 new apparel and 315 new footwear products including a series of WTA-PEAK co-branded tennis products and the latest generations of NBA star products for the spring and summer of 2011.
Set out below are the order growth by value and growth in average selling prices at the wholesale level (“ASP”) analysed by two major product categories of the Company for the first two seasons in 2011 when compared to the same periods in 2010:
Mr. XU Zhihua, the Chief Executive Officer of Peak, said, “The results of Peak’s 2011 spring and summer sales fair meet our expectation with growth rates outperformed the market average. I believe that we have obtained trust and support from our distributors because of the Company’s high-quality products, extensive sales network, and above all, our clear positioning of the Peak brand as well as our effective promotion strategies in building up an international and professional brand image, which have been enhancing the recognition of our brand in both domestic and overseas markets. The Company’s operating and development strategies have been well-recognized in this sale fair. As a result, we will endeavor continuously in expanding and strengthening Peak’s business to further increase the return to our shareholders.”
The city’s footwear exports in the first three quarters this year are more than the total exports of 2009 both in value and volume, reaching US$2.9 billion and 517 million pairs.
Global economic recovery and the quick improvement of foreign trade in China are the main reasons for a strong growth of shoe exports in Wenzhou. High-priced shoes increased shares in exports, as of September this year, 191,000 pairs of shoes with more than US$40 were exported, and the high-priced shoes made by Zhongtian Footwear in Wenzhou city were exported at price of US$150, which is the highest average price for Wenzhou footwear exports.
In recent years the footwear export has a trend of diversification that covers 159 countries and regions that including United States, Germany, Russia, Britain, Croatia, Ukraine, South Africa, Japan, Spain and France, USA still dominates the first place, accounting for 15.76% of city’s footwear exports.
It is learned that another fast fashion giant GAP will come to China. Two of its stores will open in the end of October on Huaihai Road, Shanghai. After its entrance in China, other brands of GAP Group like Banana Republic and Old navy will open stores in China, too. It is expected China will surpass Japan and become GAP's second largest market in China in 2015.
Fashion chics in Shanghai have been looking forward to local GAP stores for a long time. According to GAP China, products sold in China are likely to be cheaper than those sold in USA or Japan. In fast fashion market, GAP products are more expensive than those of Zara and H&M in western market. However, GAP products in China are to be sold at lower prices because most of these products are made in China. So transport and production costs are cut drastically. It is possible that China will become the place where GAP products are sold at the lowest prices in the world.
Moreover, GAP Chinese website will be launched on the same day. Consumers can shop at this official Chinese website. Sources say that GAP is negotiating with the largest online shopping website Taobao. We can expect that GAP online store at Taobao will open soon.
