Fashion brands ignore ‘endemic’ abuse of Syrian refugees in Turkey: watchdog

October 24, 2016 By admin

By Timothy Large LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Big fashion brands are failing to protect Syrian refugees from “endemic” abuse in Turkish clothing factories supplying European retailers, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Child labor, pitiful pay and dangerous conditions are among the risks facing undocumented Syrian refugees working in Turkey’s garment industry, according to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. The London-based charity surveyed 38 major brands with Turkish factories in their supply chains on steps they are taking to protect vulnerable refugee workers from exploitation.

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Trump-Clinton debate seen by record 80.9 million TV viewers – CNN

September 27, 2016 By publisher

Some 80.9 million Americans watched the first, raucous, U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on television, smashing a decades old record for such events, CNN said on Tuesday. The figure includes the approximately 45 million who watched the 90-minute debate on the four main TV networks, as well as millions more who watched cable channels, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other smaller outlets, CNN said. If confirmed, the audience, due to be finalised later on Tuesday, beat the 80.6 million record set by the Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan TV presidential debate in 1980 but fell short of the 100 million viewers some analysts had predicted for the face-off.

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Ralph Lauren to cut about 1,000 jobs and shut shops

June 7, 2016 By publisher

Shares of Ralph Lauren, which also forecast declines in full-year and first-quarter revenue, fell as much as 10.4 percent to $86.32 in early trading on Tuesday. Ralph Lauren, like some other luxury brands, has been struggling amid sluggish spending on luxury apparel and accessories. Ralph Lauren said on Tuesday it would try to reduce the time taken to get new products to shelves to nine months from 15.

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Valeant Pharmaceuticals tumbles; Ralph Lauren job cuts; Zillow to pay $130M to settle lawsuit

June 7, 2016 By creative

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Dior, in UK for cruise line, says new designer ‘work in progress’

May 31, 2016 By admin

Appointing a new Dior creative director is a “work in progress”, the French fashion house's chief executive said on Tuesday, with the luxury label still to name a head designer some six months after Raf Simons left to set up his own brand. Dior, one of the world's most famous designer houses, announced Simons' surprise departure in October after some three years at the helm. “(It is a) work in progress, work in progress and we're giving it a little bit of time,” Chief Executive Sidney Toledano told Reuters.

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Alexander McQueen’s Paris store wins Prix Versailles for architecture

May 31, 2016 By publisher

Alexander McQueen's Paris boutique has won the second edition of the Prix Versailles for Commercial Architecture, reports Women's Wear Daily.

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Adidas to return mass shoe production to Germany in 2017

May 25, 2016 By admin

By Jörn Poltz ANSBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Adidas will launch mass production of running shoes at a German factory operated largely by robots next year and plans to open a similar plant in the United States next year, the company said on Tuesday. Founded by German cobbler Adi Dassler in 1949, Adidas had closed all but one of its 10 shoe factories in Germany by 1993 as it shifted most production from Europe to lower-wage Asia, particularly China and Vietnam.

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Tejano music star Emilio Navaira dies at age 53 in Texas

May 17, 2016 By publisher

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Grammy Award-winning musician Emilio Navaira, who helped take Tejano music from a Texas-based regional genre to international acclaim, has died at the age of 53, police and his publicist said on Tuesday. Police in New Braunfels, about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of San Antonio, said they were called to Navaira’s home on Monday night after receiving a report of an unconscious man who was not breathing. Navaira brought showmanship to Tejano music, along with a unique dance that became known as the “Emilio Shuffle.” “He really was the king of Tejano music,” San Antonio disc jockey Randy Carroll said. “He was the male to Tejano music what Selena was as the female to Tejano music.” “The musical family of Texas is in mourning,” Norma Duran of XimA Promotions, a music-oriented public relations firm, wrote in Spanish on Facebook.

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Items from late comedian Joan Rivers’ New York home up for auction

March 8, 2016 By publisher

Fans of the late Joan Rivers will have the chance to buy items from the acerbic comedian's New York home at an auction later this year, auctioneers Christie's said on Tuesday. Pieces of art, jewelry, furniture and clothing will be among the 200-plus lots from Rivers' Manhattan penthouse on sale June 22, with starting bids from $500 to $200,000. Rivers, known for her no-holds-barred comedy, died in 2014 aged 81 following complications during an outpatient medical procedure.

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