DKNY

Retail Asia04/12/2018

Struggling fashion retailer Esprit has tapped a former Burberry and Tommy Hilfiger executive to become its chief product and brand officer. Mia Ouakim will take up the new role – a crucial post in the brand’s turnaround plan – in February, reporting to the group CEO. She will be responsible for managing the product creation […]

Retail Asia11/09/2017

Donna Karan parent G-III Apparel Group has reported a 21.6 per cent increase in quarterly sales to US$538 million. Of that, about $45 million of sales were of the DKNY and Donna Karan brands, acquired last year from LVMH. Its other licensed labels include Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Ivanka Trump and Karl Lagerfeld Paris. However […]

Retail Asia25/08/2017

American apparel brands DKNY and Donna Karan are about to invade Greater China via a JV between New York’s G-III Apparel Group and investment fund Amlon Capital. As well as the mainland, the venture is targeting Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, with January 1 as lift-off date. G-III owns 49 per cent and Amlon the […]

Retail Asia17/02/2017

DKNY India may quit the market after failing to generate sustainable profits. While mall executives and DKNY store managers have confirmed the exit, India franchisee DLF Brands has denied the US fashion brand is completely leaving the country, says the Economic Times. DLF Brands head Timmy Sarna says the company has closed “a few” stores […]

Retail Asia14/12/2016

South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store is buying trading company SK Networks’ fashion business for KRW326.1 billion (US$284 million). When the purchase is complete, probably by February, SK Networks (SKN) will no longer have interests in the fashion industry. The two companies have signed a deal to merge SKN’s 12 fashion brands into Hyundai’s Handsome fashion […]

Retail Asia22/10/2016

India’s DLF Brands, which runs high-street fashion brands mall Emporio in Delhi, is quitting the luxury business. It has just shut down two of the seven stores of US fashion brand DKNY after parting ways earlier with such brands such as Giorgio Armani, Mango, Salvatore Ferragamo and Sephora. “We don’t have any plans to open […]

Retail Asia07/10/2016

Parisian fashion house BA&SH has partnered with Hong Kong retail and brand management company ImagineX Group to strengthen its presence in Asia. BA&SH has hopes of accelerating its expansion in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan and China. The label opened its first Asian store at Hong Kong’s IFC Mall in September 2014 and with ImagineX now […]

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Esprit appointed new chief product and brand officer

Donna Karan parent boosts sales by 21.6 per cent

G-III Apparel taking DKNY, Donna Karan to China

Future of DKNY India in doubt

Hyundai buying SK Networks’ fashion sector

DLF Brands quits luxury sector

Paris label BA&SH eyes Asia expansion