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Mar 10 2008 12:00am EDT

Fashion Lunch: Versace, Chloe, M&S, bags and new stores

Donatella Versace replaces Tom Ford as the honorary head of the U.K.'s Fashion Fringe for the next two years. Expect louder parties, flashier clothes. (WGSN, no link)

Chloe replaces designer Paulo Melim Andersson with Hannah MacGibbon who used to work with Phoebe Philo. Expect a return to pretty. (WWD)

Stuart Rose takes the role of executive chairman at Marks and Spencer replacing non-executive chairman Lord Burns. Expect not a lot of big changes. (WGSN)

U.S. designers finally realize that the bag business is the one to be in. Just as the cognoscenti have moved on to "it" shoes. (WWD)

Nordstrom to open its first store in Hawaii. Jimmy Choo to open its first store in Australia. Bloomingdales to open its first store in the Middle East, in Dubai. (WGSN and WWD)

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