KLATSKY JOINS EQUITY FIRM/2 YURMAN’S WEDDING MARCH/15 WWDWomen’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’MONDAY Daily Newspaper • October 10, 2005 • $2.00 Accessories/Innerwear/Legwear King Louis By Miles Socha PARIS — The world’s largest Louis Vuitton store, christened here during the climax of Paris Fashion Week, doesn’t feel that big at all. Which is the whole point, according to Vuitton chief executive officer Yves Carcelle. “It’s completely against the idea of gigantism. We want it to be an intimate promenade,” he said Sunday morning, giving WWD the first walk-through of the sumptuous 20,500-square-foot boutique in a landmark building on the Champs Elysées. Indeed, beyond the soaring atrium at the entrance — flanked by a Donald Judd-like arrangement of red trunks that signals more art is to come — and then a vast room some early visitors likened to a cathedral, are a series of human- scale rooms devoted to Vuitton’s ever-expanding range of products. “We don’t want people to be stressed by the size,” Carcelle said. “It’s all about little rooms you discover one after the other.” Still, Vuitton’s ceo trumpeted the store as a new must-visit attraction in the City of Lights and a showcase that is bound to have a global impact on the world’s biggest luxury brand, already riding high at a heady time for the sector. And Vuitton’s roll continued at its high-energy show Sunday night, where Marc Jacobs presented one of the standout collections of the season for the house. (For more on the collection, see page 4.) Although Carcelle declined to talk numbers, sources estimate the unit should generate annual sales of between See Vuitton’s, Page10 Marc Jacobs' bright jacket and shorts for Louis Vuitton PHOTO BY GIOVANNI GIANNONI GIOVANNI PHOTO BY 2 WWD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2005 WWD.COM NYC Retail Deals With Terror Threat WWDMONDAY By Sharon Edelson That wasn’t the case at are actually pretty jazzed that Charlotte Russe at the Manhattan they get to watch somebody on Accessories/Innerwear/Legwear NEW YORK — The terror threat Mall on Sixth Avenue between TV. And being in Times Square, against New York City’s subway 32nd and 33rd Streets. “Our busi- there’s cops out here every day system disrupted business in a ness definitely was hindered due anyway so it’s really no big deal. FASHION Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Valentino and few stores over the weekend but to the terror threat,” said Jennifer I mean, I think [the customers] Lanvin were among the top collections as the spring shows continued in Paris. had little widespread impact. Coccarelli, manager. “We could are probably concerned but they 4 Federal and local officials have done a lot better based on have to live, you know?” went public on Thursday with the business the week before. A Business was off at several GENERAL news of a plot to detonate bombs lot of people on line to pay were stores at the Shops at Columbus Louis Vuitton is unveiling a 20,500-square-foot boutique in a landmark in the city’s subways. While fed- trying to get to work or home Center, which is served by a 1 building on the Champs Elysées. eral officials were initially doubt- faster than usual. They didn’t major subway station right out- ful of the credibility of the infor- want to travel during certain side its door. Bruce Klatsky, former ceo of Phillips-Van Heusen, has become a partner in mation, both Mayor Michael times of the day. They didn’t want “We noticed that traffic was 2 a new private equity firm called LNK Partners. Bloomberg and Police Comm- to use mass transit.” down in the store on Friday,” said EYE: Sipping lemonade with singer Gabby La La…Talking with Atom Agayan, issioner Raymond Kelly said se- A subway station beneath the Michelle Ewell, a J. Crew staffer. 24 whose new film, “Where the Truth Lies,” is out Friday…Chic of the Week. curity will be racheted up in the mall where the A, B, C, D, F, 1, 2 “People were talking about the subway system indefinitely. and 3 trains converge, had a large subway and how they’re more Obituaries................................................................................................23 Classified Advertisements ..................................................................21-23 At Zale’s on West 34th Street, police presence on Friday, which afraid to take the subway. You Illiana Carrera, assistant manag- Coccarelli said was reassuring. definitely noticed that the traffic To e-mail reporters and editors at WWD, the address is er, said Sunday that employees Lisa Rosenthal, associate di- was a lot lower. 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