Sweet Chic Alabama
A U.S. FIRST FOR CARTIER/22 COURTENEY COX’S BEAUTY PLAN/28 WWDWomen’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’MONDAY Daily Newspaper • September 12, 2005 • $2.00 Accessories/Innerwear/Legwear Sweet Chic Alabama NEW YORK — Natalie Chanin may hail from down South, but the Project Alabama collection she presented on Saturday is fit for girls-in-the-know everywhere — from Montgomery to Milan. A perfect concoction of country and city, the lineup included hand-quilted looks, as well as sleek, polished combinations, like this starry jacket, bustier and skirt. For more on the collections, see pages 6 to 13. Revamping Bergdorf’s: Store Steps Up Program To Build Sales to $500M By David Moin NEW YORK — It’s been an expensive, 10- year, stop-and-go process, but Bergdorf Goodman’s overhaul is picking up steam again. The goal of the project, at an estimated cost of $80 million to $85 million, is to modernize the luxury emporium, retain the classicism while injecting some hipness it’s never had before and grow revenues to at least $500 million a year. And, as Bergdorf’s parent, the Neiman Marcus Group, is close to being acquired by Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus for $5.1 billion, such growth will See Redesigning, Page16 PHOTO BY GEORGE CHINSEE PHOTO BY Advertisement The Australian wool industry has a small problem. It just landed on her right shoulder. Australia, home of the world’s finest calling for an immediate end to mulesing has spent millions of dollars on animal Merino wool and the world’s largest and for people to stop buying Australian welfare research including the search for Merino sheep flock is also, unfortunately, Merino wool until this practice is ceased.
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