Leather handbags and high heeled shoes will continue to gain room in women's wardrobes as luxury groups plan to improve their offer to spice up sales, Italian fashion houses said at Milan's shows this week.
Sales of high-end accessories, which can be easier to wear and offer higher sales margins than clothes, have boomed during the downturn, helping fashion houses offset the falling demand for more costly luxury goods.
Fashion names such as Roberto Cavalli and Versace have said they try to boost production of handbags and shoes next year.
Design Collective may be a small boutique, but it boasts big talent. Created to highlight Minnesota talent, everything found at Design Collective has been created by a local designer.
Currently over 100 Twin Cities designers sell their work on Design Collective. Men and women's apparel and accessories make up the majority of the boutique, but shoppers can also find funny cards, stationery and other quirky items. There is an application process for new designers, but Design Collective welcomes new talent.
Women can find a variety of dresses, tops, skirts, hats, handbags and jewelry and graphic t-shirts are popular for men. Design Collective sets itself apart by selling apparel and accessories that are unique and are different from what you would find in a department shop.
I love that my daughter is into purses. That's, RIGHT NOW, I'm loving that my daughter is into purses. (In the future, this could pose a problem especially if she takes after her mother, whose vice is designer handbags and champagne.)
In any case, young girls and their purses are hilarious. The purse she loves to carry these days is a Hello Kitty purse which features a lot of zippers and Velcro.
I could only hope that a parenting magazine, one day, features what's inside young girl purses, because it is pretty hilarious.
We went to McDonald's a couple days later and, of course, my daughter brought her Hello Kitty purse. She won't leave the house without them and I know she's just waiting to come to the rescue in some public washroom to a woman who's in need of a tampon.
French fashion company Chanel S.A. will soon cut prices of its key items such as garments and handbags by up to ten percent after a free trade pact between South Korea and the European Union took effect early this month, industry sources said Monday.
But the French fashion firm has yet to choose the timing of the price cuts, according to the sources. Under the free trade deal, a 13 percent tariff on European-made bags and garments was immediately abolished.
Chanel's envisioned price cuts come after another European luxury brand, Hermes, cut prices of its key items by an average of 5.6 percent beginning with last Friday.
Unlike Louis Vuitton and Gucci, Chanel and Hermes ship their products from France, with their products being treated under the free trade pact, the sources said.