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Advanstar Communications Inc. serves business professionals and consumers in the Fashion, Life Sciences and Powersports industries with its portfolio of 143 events, 54 publications and directories, 253 electronic products and websites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services. Market leading brands and a commitment to delivering innovative, quality products and services enables Advanstar to “connect our customers with theirs.”
Advanstar’s Fashion Group provides a powerful assortment of resources available to reach the $1.1 trillion fashion industry worldwide. As host of two of the world’s most comprehensive apparel, footwear and accessories trade events in North America, MAGIC and PROJECT, Advanstar unites the most influential fashion retail decision makers and the world’s leading and most innovative fashion brands.
As incubators of fashion, MAGIC and PROJECT inspire the fashion community and connect over 5,000 leading and emerging fashion brands and 20,000 product lines with over 60,000 visitors from more than 80 countries – with buyers spending more than $600 million in merchandise during the course of the three day event. More choices, more categories, more brands and full access to business building information drive thousands of key decision–makers, retailers, influencers and press to engage with Advanstar Fashion.
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Arnell Group has a 30-year history of brand invention and transformation, working with many fashion, retail and luxury brands to create market-smart strategies, iconic advertising, media milestones, breakthrough packaging, intelligent design and brand innovation plans.
www.arnell.com.
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Century 21 Department Store is a legendary New York City retailer offering top designer merchandise at incredibly low prices. For over 50 years, C21 has kept stylish shoppers dressed in the biggest names in fashion. With the best style at up to 65% off of retail 100% of the time. Century first opened its doors in downtown Manhattan in 1961 and expanded to a total of eight stores across the New York/New Jersey area. Shoppers can now go online to shop the same high-fashion, low-price apparel found in stores. Everything from top designer men’s, women’s and children’s looks to cosmetics, handbags, shoes, lingerie, housewares, luggage and more are available at C21 for unbeatable prices every single day.
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Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services
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Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS) is the world’s premier storage provider for fine art, antiques, fashion and collectibles, with facilities in London, New York and Singapore FreePort. Our state-of-the-art, recently opened New York facility offers different types of storage options to fit clients’ needs, as well as a host of related concierge services. By leveraging CFASS London’s 25 year storage experience as well as Christie’s renowned expertise with handling precious assets, CFASS New York serves as the smart archival partner for collectors, galleries, fashion designers, institutions and advisors. For more information, or to take a virtual tour, visit
www.cfass.com.
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Designers & Agents, a fashion and trade event is an alternative marketplace for designers and retailers who define the cutting edge in fashion and lifestyle. Identifying emerging talent and creating an intimate synergistic environment that fosters relationships between designers and buyers, D&A’s 12 yearly Men's and Women's shows, are currently held in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris attracting leading international retailers and media visitors. Their ongoing commitment to supporting sustainable design is represented by their Green leaf and Green room initiatives. D&A’s shows are pre-edited, art-directed, and merchandised to create a sense of camaraderie and discovery between designers and the retail community.
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Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through the world’s largest online marketplace. With more than 90 million active users globally, their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion — $2,000
every second.
eBay recently introduced eBay Fashion (
http://fashion.ebay.com), a new enhanced shopping destination for clothing, shoes and accessories on the world’s largest online marketplace. With advanced features and a stylish new look, eBay Fashion delivers a richer, more visual shopping experience that surfaces and showcases the incredible selection of new, vintage, branded and designer merchandise available on eBay.
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Gilt Groupe is a privately held company dedicated to providing its members with access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices. Gilt Groupe hand selects both established and up and coming brands relevant to its membership base. Each Gilt Groupe Shopping Event is designer-specific and held over a one day period. The Gilt Groupe production team creates a short video reel to introduce each designer and brand to its membership. There is no fee associated with joining Gilt Groupe; membership is by invitation only.
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Hand Baldachin & Amburgey LLP
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Hand Baldachin & Amburgey LLP (HBA) is a boutique law firm working with businesses in all aspects of their corporate life, including formation and day-to-day business matters, capital raising and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions, litigations and arbitrations, compensation and benefits matters, and intellectual property. Its clients operate in many industries, including media, sports and entertainment, fashion and lifestyle brands, publishing, technology, and health care.
HBA also represents financial institutions, including national and boutique brokerage firms, investment banks, private equity firms, investment advisors and hedge funds, and individuals on transactions, employment matters, securities litigations and arbitrations, and regulatory and enforcement matters.
For more information please go to
www.hballp.com.
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More than a century ago, James Cash Penney founded his company on the principle of the Golden Rule: treat others the way you'd like to be treated – Fair and Square. His legacy continues to this day, as J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) boldly transforms the retail experience across 1,100 stores and jcp.com to become America's favorite store. Focused on making the customer experience better every day, JCpenney is dreaming up new ways to make customers love shopping again. On every visit, customers will discover great prices every day in a unique Shops environment that features exceptionally curated merchandise, a dynamic presentation and unmatched customer service. For more information, visit us at jcp.com.
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Karen Harvey Consulting Group
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Karen Harvey Consulting Group is an international consulting firm that serves a select group client companies in Fashion, Luxury and Retail. The firm is widely recognized for its executive search division, which is responsible for placing creative directors, CEOs, and senior level management teams for some of our industry's most important brands. The firm's philosophy is based on the belief that no one client is exactly like another, and therefore all projects are customized to suit the needs of each client company. Additionally, the firm has a Professional Development Division which is focused on presenting Storytelling Workshops, and their Brand Incubation Division assists both designers who are members of the CFDA as well as international designers who are seeking advice in developing their brands, their infrastructure, and in further developing the reach of their brand or vision.
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Since its debut in 1989, Lexus has earned a reputation for high-quality products and exemplary customer service from its 231 dealers. Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader, offering five hybrids that provide the best in innovative technology and first-class luxury. When it began, Lexus offered two models of vehicles. Now, more than 20 years later, Lexus offers variations of 10 vehicles, from the sporty CT 200h hybrid to the V10 supercar, the LFA. In 2010 Lexus created the CFDA/LEXUS ECO FASHION CHALLENGE to support CFDA Members’ fashion shows/presentations.
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Li & Fung Limited is the Hong Kong-headquartered multinational group and recognized as the world’s leader in consumer goods design, development, sourcing and distribution. The Company specializes in supply chain management of high-volume, time-sensitive goods for leading retailers and brands worldwide via an extensive global network.
Li & Fung Limited provides sophisticated, one-stop-shop supply chain solutions to meet customers’ specific needs. From product design, raw material sourcing and production management to quality control, logistics, shipping and other important functions, its spectrum of services covers the entire supply chain end-to-end.
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Luxottica Group is a leader in premium, luxury and sports eyewear with approximately 7,100 optical and sun retail stores in North America, Asia-Pacific, China, South Africa, Latin America and Europe, and a strong, well-balanced brand portfolio. House brands include Ray-Ban, the world’s most famous sun eyewear brand, Oakley, Vogue, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Arnette and REVO, while licensed brands include Bvlgari, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Tiffany and Versace. In addition to a global wholesale network involving 130 different countries, the Group manages leading retail chains in major markets, including LensCrafters, Pearle Vision and ILORI in North America, OPSM and Laubman & Pank in Asia-Pacific, LensCrafters in China, GMO in Latin America and Sunglass Hut worldwide.
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Melissa is a global fashion icon which has manufactured over 50 million pairs of plastic shoes in the past 25 years. Melissa, based in Brazil, transforms plastic spheres into objects of desire. The company has gained worldwide recognition for its brave and creative interpretation of multi-ethnic styles. Melissa’s design partners are a selection of some of the world’s most interesting and creative professionals. The company has sustainable development as a cornerstone of its economic development as a premise which ensures market demands while preserving natural resources. Melissa is on the cutting edge of design and technology.
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OpenSky is a shopping experience that matches individual taste with the exceptional finds of industry insiders. Users can connect to insiders in Food, Style, Beauty, Healthy Living and Home Décor for exclusive information, advice and insider product recommendations. Since it launched on April 5, 2011, OpenSky has attracted more than 1.5 million members who are making more than 15 million connections to the site’s 100+ insiders including: Martha Stewart, Bobby Flay, CFDA, Cynthia Rowley, GLAMOUR magazine, Tom Colicchio, Molly Sims and Tony Horton.
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Printemps, the legendary French department store was founded in 1865. The flagship Printemps store is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the IXe arrondissement of Paris. Printemps has stores in multiple locations in Paris and throughout France. The store has also opened branches outside France, in locations including Andorra, the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo and Jeddah. In 2008 Printemps launched an extensive reinvention of its Haussmann location.
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Shangpin.com is the leading and the largest luxury fashion online shopping platform in China. It is also China's first luxury retailer selling in-season designer collections with the brand's authorization and in strategic partnership with each brand.
Shangpin was launched in July 2010 by introduction by several leading Chinese banks to their top premium credit card customers as a private members shopping club where they could purchase luxury brands with confidence and trust.
Our proven expertise and track record in China has enabled us to grow at astounding rates to take the leading position of online luxury sales in the world's most exciting marketplace for luxury goods.
Shangpin leads the Chinese online marketplace with the highest average online transaction price of RMB 3000 ($300) and has sold luxury watches for up to RMB 100,000. We have strong growth rates in China's 2nd and 3rd tier cities where many luxury brands have yet to open stores. With over RMB 200 million sales turnover in 2011 and 400 employees, Shangpin.com is setting the benchmarks in China.
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Since its launch in 2000 as a modestly sized online boutique specializing in hard-to-find denim lines, Shopbop has grown to become one of the leading fashion retailers in the world. Curated with a chic, modern woman in mind, Shopbop offers a comprehensive collection of designer apparel and accessories to suit every style and occasion.
Called "the editors of what's cool" by Daily Candy, and recognized by The Wall Street Journal as having "the best customer service," Shopbop's commitment to staying ahead of the curve and providing a personalized shopping experience continue to be driving forces behind the company's success. A champion of new design talent and a pioneer in the magazine-meets-boutique approach to online shopping, Shopbop showcases its fashion-forward point of view in editorial lookbook features and receives frequent mention in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle. Shopbop's Exclusives section features limited-edition pieces from top designers available only at Shopbop.
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Our mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time.
We’ve always believed in serving the best coffee possible. It's our goal for all of our coffee to be grown under the highest standards of quality, using ethical sourcing practices. Our coffee buyers personally travel to coffee farms in
Latin America, Africa and Asia to select the highest quality beans. And our master roasters bring out the balance and rich flavor of the beans through the signature Starbucks Roast.
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Over a hundred years ago, in 1895, Daniel Swarovski, a Bohemian inventor and visionary, moved to the village of Wattens, Tyrol in Austria, with his newly-invented machine for cutting and polishing crystal jewelry stones. From these beginnings, which revolutionized the fashion world, Swarovski has grown to be the world’s leading producer of precision-cut crystal, for fashion, jewelry, lighting, architecture and interiors. Comprised of two major divisions, one producing and selling loose crystals, the other creating finished products, the Swarovski corporation also includes additional product lines an accessory collection, Atelier Swarovski, chandelier collection Swarovski Crystal Palace as well as Optik, producing precision optical instruments and Enlightened, Swarovski’s brand for genuine and created gemstones. While Swarovski crystal, known by its product brand name CRYSTALLIZED TM– Swarovski elements, has become an essential ingredient of international design, Swarovski’s own-brand accessory, jewelry and home décor lines are sold through more than 600 Swarovski stores and concessions in all major fashion capitals, and the exclusive Daniel Swarovski accessories collection has become the company’s Couture signature.
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Tecnamedia creates events and curated discussions that accelerate innovation at the intersection of fashion and retail. We connect leaders in Fashion & Retail with the best new technology emerging from new startups and established companies form around the world. Our goal is to foster creative partnerships between Startups, Fashion Designers, Retailers and Media professionals. We are your intelligence source for technologies that can revolutionize fashion and retail.
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The Samsung Fashion and Design Fund
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The Samsung Fashion and Design Fund (SFDF) was launched in 2005 to discover and sponsor talented young Korean designers around the world. SFDF is an initiative of Cheil Industries. Cheil Industries is committed to fulfilling its obligation to society through various volunteer activities, environmental management and support for culture and the arts.
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The Woolmark is the world’s best known textile fibre brand.
The Woolmark brand is owned by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), a not-for-profit company owned by over 29,000 woolgrowers. AWI’s vision is to be a significant contributor to a vibrant, stable and profitable wool industry providing the world with the best natural fibre. Merino wool provides stability, durability, softness and luxury to the tailoring industry. The fibre has long been a favourite of designers, but younger consumers, born in an era of ‘disposable’ fashion know too little about the natural benefits. Seasonally The Woolmark Company brings together the best wool fabrics from thousands of weavers and spinners across the world into The Wool Lab it serves as an inspirational resource and sourcing guide for all things wool. You can view the wool lab for free by making an appointment with the Woolmark NYC office.
2012 will see the reinvigoration of The International Woolmark Prize – emerging USA designers will have the chance to via for the title of the USA Woolmark Prize winner; receiving a $100,000 USD grant towards their next show and collection and the chance to enter the final International Woolmark Prize competing against talented designers from Europe, China, India and Australia. The International Woolmark Prize final will be held in February 2013 and the winner will receive a further financial grant as well as commercial opportunity with Woolmark’s international retail partners including Harvey Nichols, 10 Corso Como, Bergdorf Goodman, Eickoff and more.
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WGSN is the world’s leading trend forecaster. The company enables over 38,000 subscribers to make brilliant design decisions every day by identifying and analyzing the trends that will shape commercially successful products and services in the future. WGSN’s inspiration and insight are available through online subscriptions to a variety of state-of-the-art digital tools and through bespoke consultancy services. WGSN-Homebuildlife is the pioneering trend forecasting and product design tool, created exclusively for the interiors and consumer product markets. Powered by WGSN’s unrivalled consumer insights and global research, Homebuildlife provides design inspiration in over 15 product categories that include Automotive, Food & Drink, Tabletop, Decorative Accessories, and Pets to name a few.
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The Villency Design Group is a fully integrated design and branding firm that works across a broad spectrum of disciplines including product development and fabrication, new media, industrial design, fashion and fulfillment. Started by Eric Villency, design expert and third generation businessman, the company delivers big ideas in the form of cost effective products that separate their clients from their competition.
www.villency.com
