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May 20, 2013 12:01 AM

Business

All About the Shoes and the Bag

Sometime in the early Aughts, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears WWD business reporter, a colleague replied to some silly thing I'd said by looking aghast and asking, "Don't you know? Fashion is all about the shoes and the bag."

The shoes and the bag.

I didn't know then how right she was, in both sartorial and business terms.

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May 3, 2013 5:17 PM

Business, Retail

Strong Words, Fashion Lets It Fly

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Every once in a great while the fashion industry hits a sleepy patch and a week passes when nobody says much of anything -- at least in a public forum that we can scrutinize.

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April 25, 2013 2:21 PM

Business

Judge Oing Knows But He Won't Say

By Alexandra Steigrad- Accessories News Editor / Legal Reporter

After two months listening to a small army of lawyers bicker back and forth over the sale of Martha Stewart-designed goods, it's safe to say that presiding Judge Jeffrey Oing has made up his mind on how he will rule.

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March 26, 2013 2:45 PM

Business

Girl Scouts: Geniuses of Scarcity

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

I am a complete and absolute sucker for Thin Mints.

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February 11, 2013 3:32 PM

Business

Companies Need to Talk Like People

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

I was waiting at a restaurant recently and following the up-to-the-second fashion week news on Twitter when my incoming tweets slowed to a crawl and then stopped.

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January 28, 2013 2:23 PM

Business

A New Course for J.C. Penney?

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Just before William Ackman squared off with Carl Icahn on CNBC last week -- in which the two activist investors engaged in a surprisingly personal round of verbal fisticuffs, ostensibly over direct merchant Herbalife -- Ackman hinted at things to come at one of his biggest investments, J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

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January 7, 2013 12:01 AM

Business

A Clean Slate, but the Same Story?

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

The New Year arrives with a relatively clean slate for fashion.

The Burches have buried the hatchet, fresh faces are in place and finding their footing at Saint Laurent and Christian Dior and changes to the U.S. tax code helped push through a number of deals that had been lingering.

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November 9, 2012 6:46 PM

Business

Women Executives vs. The Glass Ceiling

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Women get a raw deal in business.

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October 22, 2012 6:08 PM

Business, Retail

Hudson's Bay: All About the Real Estate

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Richard Baker -- a real estate executive turned retailer -- has found a kindred spirit in the Hudson's Bay Co.

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September 20, 2012 10:50 AM

Business

Neiman's 4 Cent Web Incentive

By Evan Clark- Deputy Editor, Business

Here's what e-commerce means for Neiman Marcus: 4 extra cents of operating profits out of each sales dollar.

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