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Put an Armani In Your Armani
It appears that Armani and Samsung are to introduce a new mobile phone in Europe in October.
A source at Samsung indicated that other Armani products are also in the works.
A Prada executive said they had also been approached about doing Prada-branded electronics like TVs. But Prada said "nada" because without a furniture line it made little sense.
Armani has Armani Casa, of course, so the joint venture makes more sense for him.
Lauren Goldstein Crowe's full Fashion Inc. blog post on this subject can be found here.
Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.






