By Alexis Garrett Stodghill Huge price tags on designer jeans are commonplace, a sign of an era in which high-end denim is worn to communicate individual style. We can all remember when paying $50 for a pair of Levi’s was the average, and the vast majority of today’s market still consists of denim priced in
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Why Jeans Cost So Much: Premium Denim Makers Justify Markups
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COURTNEY PERRY/DMN Kaila Arnold, 10, and her brother Jake Arnold, 8, pick out T-shirts under the watchful eye of their dad, Scott Arnold, at the Penney’s in Frisco’s Stonebriar Centre. The Arnold children fall into retailers’ coveted tween category.This back-to-school season isn’t going to be just about T-shirts and jeans. Tweens will be enticed by new skeggings (leggings with a skirt attached …
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Retailers pinning hopes on edgy tween fashions
Spring and summer bring 3D TV to your living room. Get Oscar-winning movies for cheap at Barnes and Noble. Samsung has a new e-reader. GAP wants your old blue jeans. Find a spa deal for just $50. Buy cosmetics and get a free dinner. And always keep your sale calendar handy.
Continue here: GAP Wants Your Old Jeans (Fox News)
LAWRENCE K. HO/Los Angeles Times Los Angeles-based True Religion is one of the jeans companies trying to fight faltering consumer spending, in part, by opening more of their own stores and Web sites. At one of its stores in California, customers can sit and be waited on.While consumer spending remains woefully depressed, expensive designer jeans have been one of the few bright spots for …
Continue here: Jeans are a profit pocket in the faded fashion market (Dallas Morning News)
Target Corp. is going bananas to keep up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The discounter, known for stylish towels and jeans, has long sold groceries. But it is barely holding onto its customers while its chief rival, Wal-Mart, is rapidly picking up new shoppers as its powerful low-cost message resonates in the recession.
More here: Target pushes basics to reverse sales slide (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Joe’s Jeans Inc. announced today that it plans to hold a conference call on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time with the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Marc Crossman, and its Chief Financial Officer, Hamish Sandhu, to discuss financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009. Prior to the call, the Company expects to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission its …
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Joe’s Jeans Schedules First Quarter 2009 Earnings Call (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The iconic Levi’s brand is stepping into bedroom slippers and sandals with help from an Ohio company. Dearfoam slippers producer R.G. Barry Corp. has announced a licensing agreement to develop and market casual footwear for San Francisco-based jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co.
Continue here: Ohio slipper company to produce Levi’s footwear (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Movie producers can be a letdown in the flesh. Not Tendeka Matatu. As well as looking the part in his black Raybans, Paul Smith shirt and Diesel jeans, this 32-year-old talks the talk with authority, and has already notched up some a…
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