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FERNANDO SANCHEZ DIES/2 RETAIL SHARES RISE/2 Women’sWWD Wear Daily • The Retailers’FRIDAY Daily Newspaper • June 30, 2006 • $2.00 Beauty ▲ Prada’s Amber Pour Homme, page 6. Double Play NEW YORK — Ralph Lauren is aiming for the top fi ve again with his new men’s fragrance, Polo Double Black. The launch is set for early October, and Double Black could be the fourth Polo fragrance to reside in the top 10 of department store men’s brands. For more, see page 6. Walgreens Forges Future With Premium European Beauty Brands By Andrea Nagel industry has ever seen. millions of samples and specially SAN DIEGO — Walgreen Co., the Walgreens is adding seven trained in-store beauty advisers nation’s largest drugstore chain exclusive skin care brands from to help shoppers understand the by sales volume, is rebranding its five different countries in a grand new collection. image by showcasing European experiment involving 1,000 of The initiative is one that will prestige beauty brands in the most its top beauty stores, complete plunge the 5,251-unit chain deep extensive effort the drugstore with upscale displays, a Web site, See Walgreens, Page 8 PHOTOS BY THOMAS IANNACCONE PHOTOS BY 2 WWD, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2006 WWD.COM Obituary Designer Fernando Sanchez, 70 NEW YORK — Fernando Sanchez, one of the lead- and at-homewear. The designer, who often dressed WWDFRIDAY ing designers and originators of elegant at-home- in black velour and fl amenco-style boots, was a wear, died Wednesday night at his Manhattan distinctive personality known for his lavish par- Beauty home, said his cousin and business partner, Jano ties in New York, Paris and Morocco.
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