LEVI’S PICKS EUROPE HEAD/3 NEW FORMAT FOR MARIONNAUD/18 WWDWomen’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’TUESDAY Daily Newspaper • January 16, 2007 • $2.00 Ready-to-Wear/Textiles Opposites Attract LOS ANGELES — She may be newly single, but Cameron Diaz looked more romantic than ever at Monday night’s Golden Globes, hitting all the evening’s key trends along the way. Decked out in a white tulle gown with a black-jeweled belt from Valentino’s spring collection — which she topped off with vintage Cartier baubles — the presenter was the epitome of lovely. For more of the Golden Globes’ winning looks, see pages 4 and 5. Meet Bill McComb: Claiborne’s New CEO Up for the Challenge By Whitney Beckett NEW YORK — After a mere two months in the job, William L. McComb could be facing his first major crisis as the new chief executive officer of Liz Claiborne Inc. And it involves no less a customer than Federated Department Stores Inc. Sources said the $22.4 billion Federated is miffed that J.C. Penney plans to launch the Liz & Co. brand throughout its stores, which Federated feels denigrates the Liz Claiborne brand. Starting this spring, the Liz & Co. casual line will be sold exclusively in all 1,021 Penney’s stores. Sources said Federated may be looking to cut See An Insider’s, Page8 PHOTO BY STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE PHOTO BY 2 WWD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007 WWD.COM Givenchy Homme Shifting Focus PARIS — In a move to put the spotlight back on scale productions, sometimes preceded by elab- WWDTUESDAY its suits and sportswear, Givenchy Homme said orate fi lms he commissioned. Ready-to-Wear/Textiles it would nix runway blowouts, and has scaled At a Savile Row exhibit last week during the back the role of Ozwald Boateng, the Savile Row Pitti Uomo trade fair in Florence, Boateng de- GENERAL tailor and reality TV star, WWD has learned. ferred questions about Givenchy to the compa- William L. McComb took the helm at Liz Claiborne as major changes at Boateng, who was named Givenchy Homme’s ny. However, he noted, “I’m going to be focusing 1 the retail and consumer level have left vendors scrambling to adapt. fi rst creative director in 2003, will now be a con- a lot on my own collection this year.” sultant for the French fashion house, owned by Based in London, Boateng burst onto the Givenchy Homme is nixing runway blowouts and has scaled back the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. men’s wear scene more than a decade ago with 2 role of Ozwald Boateng, the Savile Row tailor and reality-TV star. “Ozwald is still collaborating on this collec- his renegade tailored collection. His use of atyp- Armin Broger, ceo for Seven For All Mankind in Europe, the Middle East tion,” Marco Gobbetti, Givenchy’s chairman and ical colors and textures and pure chutzpah has 3 and Africa, has been named president of Levi’s Europe. chief executive offi cer, said. “The role has been made some of Savile Row’s old guard cry in their updated in line with the new strategy we have. Harris tweeds, but it helped elevate the Ghana Jeffry M. Aronsson, former ceo of Donna Karan, has formed a company It’s a consulting agreement.” native to the rarifi ed world of fashion thanks to 17 focused on acquisitions and brand development in the luxury market. Givenchy won’t stage a runway show during a client list that includes Jamie Foxx, Laurence Marionnaud Parfumeries, France’s top perfumery chain, is getting a men’s fashion week in Paris later this month. Fishburne, Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, 18 makeover, which will cause competitors to rethink their retail concepts. Instead, it plans a still-life presentation on Jan. Russell Crowe and Keanu Reeves. 26 at Espace Commines. Boateng’s star quotient rose signifi cantly Boateng, known for his supersized person- last year when he starred in his own Sundance EYE ality and for mixing bespoke savoir faire with reality show called “The House of Boateng.” Stars spent their days and nights leading up to the Golden Globes at a cross-cultural references, showed his fi rst col- The eight-episode program tracked Boateng’s 6 fl urry of Hollywood parties from Chanel, HBO, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. lection for Givenchy Homme in July 2004. His launch in the U.S. Classifi ed Advertisements.............................................................21-23 Paris shows were typically high-energy, large- — Miles Socha and Courtney Colavita To e-mail reporters and editors at WWD, the address is fi rstname. [email protected], using the individual’s name. WWD IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF ADVANCE MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS INC. 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TUESDAY: Direction and Printsource, New York (through “The brand is at a stage where we’ve had con- Thursday). tinued growth,” said Franklin. “We’re at a size that we can work on a global level, and we hired David WEDNESDAY: Bread & Butter Barcelona (through Friday). to take us there.” The U.S. Labor Department releases the Producer Price Franklin added that Chu will bring on more Tumi’s Laurence Index for December. “creative horsepower,” pointing to his work at Franklin and The Federal Reserve Board releases the Beige Book Nautica — which he founded in 1983 and sold to David Chu. economic report. VF Corp. in 2004 for $104 million — and his nearly MITRA ROBERT PHOTO BY two-year-old company, DC Design International, The men’s wear line is sold at stores such as THURSDAY: The Labor Department releases the Con- which produces men’s suitings and some other Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. Chu is sumer Price Index for December. men’s categories. slated to open a bespoke men’s wear boutique on Burlington Coat Factory reports second-quarter Chu, a Taiwan native who was trained in ar- the ground fl oor of his Manhattan brownstone this sales and earnings. chitecture and found his way to apparel by the week and has aspirations to launch a women’s col- recommendation of a professor at the Fashion lection under the label sometime in the future. But SATURDAY: Fashion Market of San Francisco (through Institute of Technology, will continue to run DC.