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...Vincent Van Duysen has worked with Ortega Pérez on a namesake range for Zara Home. “Marta flew in with some of the team four years ago,” says the Belgian designer and architect....
...Tompkins Rivas, who came to LA from Dallas in 2001, held positions at LACMA and 18th Street Arts Center before joining the Vincent Price Art Museum as director and chief curator in 2016....
...Spain’s Zara and Sweden’s H&M now dominate what should have been natural ground for Benetton because the Italian company’s founder failed to see the threat from fast fashion....
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...Similarly, it took Morgan Stanley analysts until March to spot that Primark’s implied valuation “seems anomalous” compared with Zara owner Inditex on 20 times earnings — especially as Zara has the more mature...
...Retailers are less used to being put on hold by customers, writes Matthew Vincent....
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...The company also on Wednesday named Vincent Zanna, previously senior vice president of finance and treasurer, as its new chief financial officer, effective immediately....
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...“The quality is good, but the clothes aren’t that fashionable compared to H&M and Zara,” she said....
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...Indeed, though high street brands such as Zara and Mango, shoe brand Camper and historic names Balenciaga and Paco Rabanne have a high profile, there are relatively few well-known contemporary Spanish designer...
...Zara has succeeded in lowering its prices by moving about 35-40 per cent of production onshore....
...Mr Beraldo, however, sees his main competitors as international chains, such as Zara and H&M, and its product mix is more similar to those outlets than to La Rinascente’s upmarket offerings....
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