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Rush Hour by Meenal Mistry NEW YORK — Among Civilians, It’S a Little-Known Fact, but Fashion Folk Are Actually a Hardy Bunch FRANCES HITS FLA./2 WHAT THE LADIES ARE BUYING/4 Global Edition WWWomen’s Wear Daily • DTUESDAYThe Retailers’TUESDAY Daily Newspaper • September 7, 2004 • $2.00 Ready-to-Wear/Textiles Rush Hour By Meenal Mistry NEW YORK — Among civilians, it’s a little-known fact, but fashion folk are actually a hardy bunch. They are the practical sort who will let little stand in their way, especially when it comes to creating the potential 15- minute moment of glory that is the fashion show. That said, in preparing for this spring season, designers had two additional obstacles to accompany all the usual last-minute Carolina Herrera shares mayhem: an early start to fashion week, which will begin a a laugh with mere two days after Labor Day, and the Republican design director Herve Pierre National Convention, held right in the Garment District. Braillard. See Down, Page 6 PHOTO BY THOMASPHOTO BY IANNACCONE 2 WWD/GLOBAL, SEPTEMBER 2004 WWW.WWD.COM WWDTUESDAY Fla. Retail Endures Frances Ready-to-Wear/Textiles PLANTATION, Fla. — Retail sorting through the destruction Group’s 27 Florida malls had GENERAL stores in Florida, after losing caused by hurricane Charley closed by Friday afternoon, said Now that the Republicans have left town, Seventh Avenue designers spent more than three shopping days when Frances began. Punta Les Morris, corporate spokesman. 1 the weekend getting ready for fashion week, which begins on Wednesday. due to hurricane Frances during Gorda and Port Charlotte Hurricane warnings were Having been pounded by hurricane Frances, Florida retailers, many closed the traditionally important seemed to take the brunt of lifted in Miami-Dade county by Labor Day sales weekend, began Charley’s wrath. 5 a.m. Sunday morning and sev- 2 since Thursday afternoon, began opening where possible on Monday. to slowly reopen on Monday Frances began moving to- eral of the malls began to open, EYE: A peek into the closets of some of New York’s chicest women, to forecast even as merchants and insurers ward the east coast of Florida including Simon’s Dadeland 4 fall’s biggest hits, shows Michael Kors and Yves Saint Laurent in the lead. began to assess total losses. on Thursday. By Friday, evacua- Mall in Miami, Morris said. The While the dollar count for tion orders for 2.5 million peo- company’s Broward County Diane von Furstenberg swept into her new Paris flagship boutique at 14 Rue physical damage and missed ple were issued — the largest malls and some of the Palm 15 D’Alger last week and directed the finishing touches. sales revenue won’t be known in the state’s history. As it Beach County malls, including Cartier tallied two legal victories against several retailers selling imitation for days, the total has been esti- spread across the state, the Town Center in Boca Raton, re- 16 Cartier, Panerai and Piaget watches over the Internet. mated to be as much as $20 bil- hurricane downed power lines, opened Monday. lion, according to state officials. flooded streets and brought Retailers at Bal Harbour Classified Advertisements ..................................................................18-19 Coupled with hurricane Charley, down trees. There were reports Shoppes, directly across the To e-mail reporters and editors at WWD, the address is which pounded the region three of several deaths in the state street from the Atlantic Ocean [email protected], using the individual’s name. weeks ago, depressing August due to Frances. north of Miami Beach, reopened retail sales, the total figure While Frances’ fierce winds on a voluntary basis on Sunday WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF FAIRCHILD PUBLICATIONS, INC. COPYRIGHT ©2004 FAIRCHILD PUBLICATIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. could be as high as $40 billion. and hurricane conditions affect- at noon. Monday, the mall, in- VOLUME 188, NO. 50. WWD (ISSN # 0149-5380) is published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with one additional Nationwide spending in 2003 ed most of the state, the storm hit cluding anchors Neiman issue in January, May, June and November; two additional issues in February, April, September, October and December; and three for the back-to-school season, the central part of the eastern Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, additional issues in March and August, by Fairchild Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 7 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001. Shared Services provided by Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.: S.I. Newhouse, Jr., Chairman; which includes Labor Day week- coast, near Melbourne hardest. was open for holiday hours of Steven T. Florio, Vice Chairman; Charles H. Townsend, C.O.O.; John W. Bellando, Executive Vice-President and C.F.O.; Jill Bright, end, was $14.8 billion, according With hurricane warnings is- noon to 6. 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COMING THIS WEEK Action Sports Retailer show, San Diego (through Sunday). In Brief ● BONGO TANGO: Candie’s Inc., the owner of the Bongo trademark, won an injunction last week against its former denim licensees in Los Angeles. New York-based Candie’s and its subsidiary, Unzipped Apparel Inc., filed a breach of contract and fraud lawsuit last month in Los Angeles Superior Court against Sweet Sportswear LLC, Azteca Production International and Apparel Distribution Services, which owned the exclusive right to operate, manufacture and distribute Bongo jeans. The lawsuit seeks more than $50 mil- lion in damages. Candie’s wants to get some 600,000 pairs of jeans warehoused by the licensees so it can put them into stores next week in time for back-to-school. Deborah Sorell Stehr, senior vice president and general counsel for Candie’s, said the company planned to post a required $1.7 million bond for the goods. Edward Woods, co-counsel for the defendants, said his clients would file a cross complaint for fraud and breach of conduct in two weeks. Woods said Unzipped owes both ADS and Azteca about $3.5 million. Sweet owner Hubert Guez, who also is named in the suit, is owed $11 million in a promissory note, he said. Production Locations: Correction Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central America, China, Carole Kerner was not involved with launching the Hollister di- Dubai, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Mexico, vision of Abercrombie & Fitch, which was stated incorrectly in a Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Vietnam story on Sept.
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