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Fashion Inc.

by Lauren Goldstein Crowe
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Jan 03 2008 12:00am EDT

Fashion Breakfast

Thank heaven for the sales. U.S. retail sales rose 14 percent in the week after Christmas. (Reuters)

Sun Capital is considering a "hostile conditional takeover" of Kellwood, owner of Phat Farm and Sag Harbor brands. (NYPost)

Abercrombie & Fitch decide to relaunch too-sexy-for-the-U.S.A A&F Quarterly magalog in London with the former creative director, Sam Shahid. (FWD)

Versace closes its store in Mumbai due to lack of demand and will open a new one in Delhi in March. (WGSN, no link)

Thanks to lobbying from adidas, makers of kangaroo leather soccer balls, California finally lifts its ban on kangaroo leather, some 13 years after the ban was lifted in the rest of the country. (WGSN, no link)

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