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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER GETS READY FOR 30/6-7 Women’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’ Daily Newspaper • September 8, 2006 • $2.00 ▲ Ivo Pitanguy’s clinic introduces new skin care WWDFRIDAY line Previous, page 13. Beauty Bella Bilson New York Fashion Week isn’t the only stylish event on the horizon. With Rachel Bilson’s new movie “The Last Kiss” about to make its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday and in U.S. theaters next week, the young starlet has been busy putting together just the right looks for her upcoming red-carpet strolls. Recently, Bilson met with Brian Reyes for a fi tting and walked away with a handful of charming looks, including this silk top and skirt. For more, see page 8. PPR’s Stellar 1st Half: Gucci Group Propels 27% Surge in Profits By Robert Murphy PARIS — Luxury continues to juice up PPR, the French owner of Gucci Group, which on Thursday said sales of high- end accessories and apparel drove its first-half profits ahead 27 percent. While profits at the firm’s retail operations expanded a moderate 5.1 percent, PPR chairman François-Henri Pinault praised the “impressive” 69.6 percent leap in recurring operating income at Gucci Group in the six months through June 30 as among the best in the industry. “Luxury has been exceptional,” said Pinault at an early morning meeting See PPR, Page 4 PHOTO BY KYLE ERICKSEN KYLE PHOTO BY 2 WWD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 WWD.COM EU Looks at Security of Liquids on Planes LONDON — The European Commission is hammer- Security Administration. ing out a pan-European Union response to security Meanwhile, Mark Riches, managing director issues surrounding liquids in airline hand luggage of travel retail operator World Duty Free, told WWDFRIDAY Beauty because of their potential use in terrorism. WWD this week that tighter security regulations “The Aviation Security Com mittee takes the that have been in place since the August terrorist view that recent events have shed light on new scare continue to affect business in its U.K. air- FASHION forms of threat to civil aviation by means of using port stores. When “The O.C.” star Rachel Bilson called Brian Reyes last week in liquid explosives,” the European Commission said “Business is back to a better level, but it has 8 search of red-carpet frocks, the designer dropped everything. in a statement Thursday. “The Committee believes not returned to pre-Aug. 10 [levels],” he said, that a common European response to address this referring to the date of the start of the terrorist threat is urgent.” scare, although he declined to specify how much GENERAL Luxury continues to juice PPR, the French owner of Gucci Group, which The Regulatory Committee for Civil Aviation revenue has been affected. Security met Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Riches said it is important to put any impact 1 said sales of high-end accessories and apparel drove fi rst-half profi ts. carrying liquids in hand luggage following the into perspective, since it is being felt mainly in As Jean Paul Gaultier celebrates the 30th anniversary of his Paris fashion August news of an alleged terrorist plot to blow U.K. terminals with heavy U.S.-bound traffic. 6 house with a rare visit to New York, he doesn’t want to be labeled. up U.S.-bound planes leaving U.K. airports. Further, he said the travel-retail industry is resil- Since the scare, U.S.-bound passengers leaving ient in times of crisis. Movado Group posted a 32.7 percent hike in second-quarter earnings, the U.K. are prohibited from carrying on board “We’re used to crisis,” he said. “We’ve had 9 driven by the launches of the Brasilia, Hugo Boss and Series 800 lines. liquid-based products, which effectively bars them events like SARS, 9/11, bird fl u, the abolition of BEAUTY: Coty is restructuring marketing efforts for its Coty Beauty from buying cosmetics, fragrances, skin care prod- European duty free; we’re used to dealing with 12 division, in a move to strengthen the unit’s presence globally. ucts and alcohol in airport shops. this.” However, he noted that the most recent pre- Classifi ed Advertisements.............................................................19 During its deliberations on Sept. 6 and 7, “considerable To e-mail reporters and editors at WWD, the address is fi rstname. 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As interest our readers. If you do not want to receive these offers and/or information by mail and/or e-mail, please advise siderable progress was made on the contents of a reported, it has tested a gate-delivery program us at P.O. Box 15008, North Hollywood, CA 91615-5008 or call 800-289-0273. WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS, DAMAGE, OR ANY OTHER INJURY TO UNSOLICITED MANU- rulemaking aimed at controlling the movement of with Virgin Atlantic, whereby U.S.-bound passen- SCRIPTS, UNSOLICITED ART WORK (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND TRANSPAR- liquids through the screening checkpoints,” the gers can buy cosmetics and liquids up to 80 min- ENCIES), OR ANY OTHER UNSOLICITED MATERIALS. THOSE SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ART WORK, statement continued. utes before their fl ights, then have the products OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR CONSIDERATION SHOULD NOT SEND ORIGINALS, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED Some immediate decisions were under- delivered directly to planes. taken, including common rules on separately Riches said the trial “worked OK,” but that screening electronic equipment, such as laptop the time constraint makes the system less than computers, to allow for better detection of con- ideal. He suggested other solutions might in- cealed items and an “agreement in principle” clude liquid-based items purchased in travel-re- Quote of the Week was decided upon regarding screening equip- tail shops being packaged in sealed, see-through ment standards. Other decisions will be made plastic bags, which would allow security agents after the Committee’s Technical Taskforce meets to verify quickly that liquid items had not been “She personifi es what we always on Monday and an International Civil Aviation tampered with.

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