Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Humor Chic Luxury & War - French probe finds LVMH built up Hermes stake in secret-paper
LVMH CEO Monsieur Bernard Arnault
The French stock market authority has found LVMH secretly bought shares in rival Hermes to build a stake, and not merely make a financial investment as the luxury group has claimed, a newspaper reported.
LVMH said it would fight the findings of the watchdog's probe before its sanctions committee when it meets on May 31 to hear the company's defence.
Hermes was not immediately available for comment.
LVMH, which owns 22.6 percent of Hermes, surprised the market in October 2010 when it announced it had a 14 percent stake, gained partly via derivatives that allowed it to not declare its holding.
Le Monde reported on Saturday that the stock market authority's investigation found LVMH had in 2001-2002 acquired an initial stake of 4.9 percent through subsidiaries based in tax havens and which was not declared in its accounts.
In France, companies are required to disclose when they take a stake worth more than 5, 10 and 15 percent of a another company's capital if the target is listed on the stock market.
In 2007, LVMH resumed accumulating shares in Hermes by buying equity derivatives through financial intermediaries and subsidiaries, with each keeping holdings below the 5 percent disclosure threshold, the newspaper said the probe had found.
Hermes, which sees LVMH's stakebuilding as hostile, argues LVMH did not tell the market for many months it was a buyer of the shares, which would have boosted its shares if public.
The probe concluded that everything pointed to LVMH trying to build a stake in its rival, in contrast to LVMH's claim that it was making a financial investment, the paper said.
"LVMH intends to vigorously contest the conclusions found in this report," the company said in a statement.
"The sanctions committee ... will not hand down a decision until it has examined all evidence presented in LVMH's defence," LVMH said. "It will then only be able to conclude the absence of any wrongdoing by LVMH towards the law and the (stock market authority's) rules."
VIA REUTERS
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Humor Chic Fashion & Copycats - MACAO DAILY NEWS: 漫畫網站的作者aleXsandro Palombo 將這三個品牌的設計師放進了捕鼠夾子
（胭脂齋）抄掉的是節操
抄掉的是節操
國內頂級服裝設計師張肇達在業界享有空前絕後的聲譽，令一班後學景仰，不料想今年時裝周大爆冷門，被資深時尙博主曝光抄襲。有圖有眞相，看得人眼花繚亂，瞠目結舌。雖然抄襲的內容是跨界合作設計的女鞋，但略作修改基本照搬的抄襲方式也還是讓人相當驚訝，其中更有原封不動複製原款的，可能因製鞋楦形不同，兩款圖並列一起，標準山寨，特顯寒酸。
作為服裝設計師，經常接觸服飾搭配，如果不是去玩建築設計，偶爾玩玩鞋、包、飾品的設計，嚴格來說也算不上甚麼越界，設計幾款鞋子對服裝設計師而言並不是甚麼困難的工作，背後究竟是甚麼動機導致著名設計師名節掃地，筆者無從得知，只好奇：至於嗎？
也許是中國的服裝設計始終起步較晩，國內設計師抄襲國際大牌也是司空見慣的，聽聞這類消息除了哀其不幸，怒其不爭之外，最多也就是訕笑一下，當聽說Dior、Prada、Celine都加入抄襲大軍，無疑令唯其馬首是瞻的追捧者心都碎了，這些可是操縱時尙，玩轉潮流的世界品牌頂級大腕，他們都怎麼了？二○一三年，集體江郞才盡？
西方人的幽默也特有格調，漫畫網站的作者aleXsandro Palombo 將這三個品牌的設計師放進了捕鼠夾子，和鏡像對比的抄襲圖片排在同一版面，大大的“NO FAKE”顯示對時尙大咖們無聲的質問與譴責。
在時尙界，年年都有各種主題離不開“復古”、“輪回”、“致敬”等Style，換句話說，就是繞着彎子把過去的東西整理整理就成為新風尙。當然，這過程需要點技巧，最好是有畫龍點睛的本事，讓這種Copy變得有新意，至少有點創意，就像一隻ST股，重組之後價値翻番。這就是設計師化腐朽為神奇的不同凡響之處，不然隨便翻翻資料，靠“拿來主義”撐撐場面，那滿街都是設計師了。
一位業界的朋友說，以前做服裝設計抄《瑞麗》，現在抄淘寳，一間公司就這樣抄抄，一年也能抄個幾百萬，除了無語，還能說甚麼？
資訊共享的年代，吸收營養地“借鑒”和投機取巧地“抄襲”的界線越來越模糊，但節操越來越清晰，越來越珍貴。
古 吉
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Humor Chic Point of View - The Value of Fast Fashion: H&M creative director Margareta Van Den Bosch "H&M Loves Slave Labor" by aleXsandro Palombo
The deaths of hundreds of workers at a Bangladesh factory have brought about renewed scrutiny of the country’s garment industry. Late last year several retailers, including Wal-Mart, the Gap and H&M, rejected proposals aimed at improving safety following a November factory fire that killed 112 workers.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Humor Chic Special Shoot - Vogue's Creative Director Grace Coddington and John Galliano "Face to Face" by aleXsandro Palombo
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Humor Chic Fashion & Crimes - Bangladesh building collapse toll tops 1000 "United Survivors of Benetton"
Bangladesh survivor Reshma Begum: I never dreamed I'd see daylight again
Rescue workers had given up hope of finding anyone else alive in the rubble of the Rana Plaza. Then they heard a faint tapping
First came the collapse. At 9am in the morning, as the day's work started, a ripping, tearing sound, clouds of choking dust, the screams of colleagues and finally silence. Then came fire, rain, and 16 long days in the darkness under the rubble surrounded by the decaying corpses of her friends and colleagues. On Friday came hope.
Through the morning, Reshma Begum, a seamstress who worked on the second floor of the Rana Plaza in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, heard rescuers close by. But none heard her.
"I heard voices of the rescue workers. I kept hitting the wreckage with sticks and rods to attract their attention," she told reporters from a hospital bed.
At around 3pm, Abdur Razzaq, an army sergeant deployed to help search the 7,000 tonnes of rubble that was all that remained of the Rana Plaza, picked up the faint sound of metallic tapping. "I heard the sound and rushed towards the spot. I knelt down and heard a faint voice. 'Sir, please help me,' she cried," Razzaq told the Guardian.
The woman had been breathing through a pipe from inside the wreckage, Razzaq said, and had sustained no serious injury.
The collapse of the factory, in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Dhaka, prompted widespread criticism of local authorities, employers and international retailers such as Britain's Primark, which were supplied with clothes by businesses run from its upper floors.
About two-thirds of the more than 3,000 workers in the building managed to flee. But as many as 1,500 may have been buried by rubble. With an official death toll standing at 1,050, relatives and rescue workers had given up hope of finding anyone else alive.
"We were removing slabs," said Lt Col S M Imran-Uz-Zaman, an army spokesman at the site. "We immediately halted work in all other areas and focused on the rescue."
Razzaq said he had heard Reshma's tapping after bulldozers had lifted loose rubble that had been covering the spot. Rescuers saw her standing in the gap between a beam of concrete and the slab.
"When I flashed the torchlight I saw a lot of space and she was walking," said Monwar, a worker at the site.
Daily life in much of the capital ground to a halt as Dhaka's inhabitants watched the rescue unfold live on local television.
Tensions were high. An earlier bid to rescue a woman found in the debris more than 100 hours after the building collapsed went disastrously wrong when sparks from a grinder ignited a fire, killing her and fatally burning a rescue worker.
For an hour, workers used light hammers, drills and saws to remove rods and concrete blocks. Others prayed. Eventually a military engineer was able to climb into the space where Reshma had spent two weeks.
Then, among cheers of "God is Great!", the young woman, with the pink scarf she had worn to work more than two weeks ago around her shoulders, was eased out and on to a stretcher. Rescue workers were seen wiping tears as an ambulance drew away, taking the young woman to a military hospital nearby.
Begum told rescuers she had survived by scavenging for biscuits in the rucksacks of dead colleagues and drinking rainwater.
"No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again," she told the private Somoy TV from her hospital bed.
She told the channel she had lived on dried food for 15 days. "There was some dried food around me. The last two days I had nothing but water. I used to drink only a limited quantity of water to save it. I had some bottles of water around me," she said.
Reshma's mother and her sister, Asma, were reported to have rushed to the hospital to meet her.
Army officers co-ordinating the rescue said they were astonished by the woman's strength. "It is incredible that someone could have survived in the wreckage 408 hours after the building came down," Shah Jamal, an army officer, said. "Her will to live is amazing."
Nine people have been arrested in connection with the disaster, including the owner of the Rana Plaza and owners of the factories it housed.
Several major western retailers were being supplied by factories based in the building. Primark and its Canadian counterpart, Loblaw, have announced they will compensate the victims of the disaster, the world's worst industrial accident since the Bhopal gas leak in India in 1984.
The government has blamed the owners and builders of the eight-storey complex for using shoddy construction materials, including substandard rods, bricks and cement, and not obtaining the necessary clearances.
It has emerged that the building was constructed on swampy land. Four storeys were built between 2007 and 2008, with a further four added later. A ninth floor was under construction at the time of the collapse.
The building had developed cracks the day before but worried workers were forced to remain inside by managers who threatened to dock their pay of around £30 a month. When massive generators were switched on when power went off – a frequent occurrence in electricity-starved Dhaka – the building collapsed.
There have been a series of deadly accidents in Bangladesh's garment industry, which accounts for 80% of the country's exports and employs around 4 million people, including a fire in November in which 114 people died. A fire killed eight people at another garment factory in Dhaka earlier this week.
More than 100 more bodies were found in the rubble of the Rana Plaza on Friday. Most are so decomposed that physical recognition is impossible.
Deep anger at both authorities and employers remains. Garment workers demonstrated for better conditions in the aftermath of the disaster and clashed with police. But all welcomed yesterday's news.
"God is amazing," said Julekha, a 31-year-old garment worker in Savar. Our supervisor told us that a woman was rescued from the rubble. I later watched her on television. Everyone in our workplace was surprised. It's a little happiness amid all the sorrows that we have been filled with in the last so many days."
Via Guardian
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Humor Chic Fashion News - Fashion designer Ottavio Missoni dies aged 92
Loss comes after Vittorio Missoni went missing in January
Milan, May 9 - Italian knitwear impresario Ottavio "Tai" Missoni, whose distinctive colourful zigzag dresses became a global fashion empire, died on Thursday at his home in northern Italy at 92, his family said.
Missoni co-founded the fashion brand in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini and their designs have graced the rich and famous from Jackie Kennedy to the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton.
Missoni was born in the then Yugoslavia on February 11, 1921 and started out with a career in track athletics after moving to Italy.
He became a national champion before World War II and took part in the 1948 London Olympics.
During the war, he fought in the Battle of El-Alamein and was held as a prisoner of war.
At the Olympics he met his future wife, whose family owned a textile business in northern Italy.
The Missoni brand quickly earned a reputation for testing new boundaries in the 1960s and was kicked out of the Pitti fashion shows in Florence when its models did not wear bras on the catwalk.
Missoni was a self-effacing, jovial man who told one interviewer that the geometric patterns on his dresses "were like that simply because we had machinery that could only make straight lines."
But the company kept up a reputation for innovation in recent years and was the first to delve into the mass market through a successful partnership with US mega-store chain Target.
It also followed other major Italian fashion chains in setting up branded hotels in different cities including Edinburgh and Kuwait.
But Missoni suffered tragedy earlier this year when a plane carrying his eldest son, Vittorio, and five other people went missing on a flight from the Venezuelan island resort of Los Roques.
An intensive search failed to yield results and the 58-year-old is feared dead.
Via AFP
Vittorio Missoni
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Campaign Against Racial Antisemitism - WE MUST NOT FORGET THE HOLOCAUST
See Sun video
of John Galliano's racist 'I love Hitler' rant
In the video a drunk Galliano, seated at table à L'Absinthe, insults a group of Italian women and declares "I love Hitler... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be fucking gassed." This incident happened just before Paris Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2011-12.
"I Love Hitler"
Fashion Lesson with Professor John Galliano
and the young student Anne Frank
"Say No to Anti-Semitism"
by aleXsandro Palombo
Anne Frank, lesson from a young student
"Say No to Anti-Semitic John Galliano"
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