Net-a-porter.com launches a power list of bloggers. (Net-a-porter.com) “Market volatility could force luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo to delay plans for its upcoming initial share offering on the Milan bourse.” (STV) “US clothing retailer Gap Inc has signed a deal with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg to create a new capsule children’s wear collection...

“A major award may seal the star sisters’ rise to join the design elite.” (Independent) “The rich are back to pre-recession splurging: Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom customers are treating themselves to luxury items like $5,000 Hermes handbags and $700 Jimmy Choo shoes, and they’re paying full price.” (ABC News) “If last week saw...

Valentino x Gap is proving that FW10 is perhaps the most exciting season of designer collaborations fashion has seen so far.” (Blackbook) Private-equity firms TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners are in talks to buy J. Crew, in a deal worth about $3 billion. (WSJ) “The Great Depression replaced a spendthrift culture with...

“Tumblr has struck a chord with the fashion community because, like fashion itself, the platform is both immediate and highly-visual.” (BoF) “Luxury goods companies, which once saw the Internet mainly as a repository for downmarket items and fakes, are rushing to open online shops as new features assuage their concerns.” (New York Times) “It...

Anna Dello Russo “and her raffish style-world cohort, who populate the mastheads of the fashion magazines, represent a new breed of Web-based reality star.” (New York Times) “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, an exhibition of the fashion of the late British designer, will open at the Costume Institute on May 4, the Metropolitan Museum of...

“Ms. Cornejo has quietly developed a label that travels in high circles yet functions in many ways as a mom-and-pop business.” (WSJ) “Nearly a decade after Derek Zoolander set out to find if there was “more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking,” that obliviously self-centered male model is coming back –...

“Helen Seamons picks her 10 favourite shows from Paris fashion week, from Spanish dressage horses at Hermes to vintage cars at Emanuel Ungaro.” (Guardian) “Luxury designers such as Lanvin and Valentino were playing safe at Paris fashion week with collections strongly focused on their traditional styles, though they were declaring the downturn over.” (Reuters)...

“Over 28 days and hundreds of collections shown in four cities, the most obvious message from the spring fashion shows, which ended on Wednesday, was a dropping of hemlines — in many cases all the way to the floor.” (New York Times) “Yes, after dominating the late 1990s and early 2000s, Gap has dropped...

“Gap has revealed plans to enter into the Chinese market, starting with four stores and an online site to launch towards the end of this year.” (Drapers) “Asian millionaires are worth more than their European counterparts for the first time, with China and India leading the way.” (Plush Asia) “Swedish fashion group H&M reported...

“Nude is the fashion colour du jour. But it’s only nude if you’re white, not if you’re black.” (The Guardian) “They are an odd couple, Mr. Kane and Ms. Versace, in an industry of convenient marriages.” (New York Times) “Gap Inc. (GPS) reported a 40% increase in profits for the first quarter, as sales...