Topic: J. Crew Group Inc.

Clothing the Sale

When designers at Brooks Brothers started to plan the company's fall line of clothing, they looked to some interesting sources for ideas. These sources weren't outside of their industry. They weren't overly technological in nature. ...READ MORE›

U.S. Politics and World News collides with New Media

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The Life After T-Shirt Experience

Ahhh, that time of life when you've got to begin paying (really) for your clothes yourself, and when those four years of college food impact whether you'll really ever wear low-rise jeans again! As this NY Times Articlestates, ...READ MORE›

Customer Focused Companies

Smart companies focus on customers. They don't ask for government bailouts.READ MORE›

• Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems

Shopping for a Cause

A look at five of the top socially conscious places to shop online.READ MORE›

Peripheral Personality

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Crib Sheet: Natalie Massenet, Founder of Net-a-Porter

When you can launch an online clothes store just before the first Internet bubble bursts and, a decade later, walk away with $76 million, a place on the board as executive chairman, your middle name has got to be Gumption. Former ...READ MORE›

Recession Fashion

The depressing economy may be prompting us to keep our wallets shut, but so far it's doing very little to curb our fashion obsession. Amidst widespread corporate layoffs, our nation elected a new president, and subsequent fashion coverage followed the historic event.READ MORE›

Gold Standard

The Mitchell Gold Co. is bringing overdue change to an out-of-touch industry: home furniture. But unlike so many other mavericks, its primary competitive weapon isn't the Internet. Instead, the company is deploying a smart sense of design.READ MORE›

Internet Retailer reports 150% growth in Fiscal Year 2008 despite downturn in economy.

Outdoor gear for kids internet retailer, UpsideOver.com, reports extreme growth due to "Staycations", internet growth and strong management team. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 5, 2008 -- Upside Over Inc., (http://Upsideover.com), ...READ MORE›

Pass Me a Bottle, Mr. Jones

Borders’ new CEO George Jones faces a major challenge. Known as a retail innovator from stints at Warner Bros. Studio Stores and Saks, Jones takes over a company that’s locked in a competitive vise-grip between Barnes & Noble and ...READ MORE›

Om: National Yoga Month

September is National Yoga Month, when twisting, toe-touching yogis will roll out their mats at more than 1,500 free classes and events across America. Here's a look at the vital stats of this 5,000-year-old practice from the East turned booming business in the West.READ MORE›

Insane Discount Season

You probably saw this year's reports of retailers' pre-Thanksgiving bravado. "This holiday shopping season," The New York Times declared breezily on Nov. 22, "America's clothing stores are offering their customers something they have ...READ MORE›

What's Selling in America: part 4 of 5.

"We Decided to Merchandise Raised Toilet Seats in the Same Way You'd Merchandise Lamp Fixtures at Pottery Barn." Can Take Good Care Make Hip Replacements Hip? "What a drag it is, getting old," whined Mick Jagger in 1966. What a drag, ...READ MORE›

How We Sell

If shopping is the great American indoor sport, why isn't it more fun? Why isn't it easier? Why isn't it better? Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell Inc., decodes the secrets of retail design to explain the rules behind how we shop.READ MORE›

Inspiration Junkies

Three guys in a beat-up RV have been collecting career advice from the likes of Michael Dell and Sandra Day O'Connor. Now they're spreading the gospel on college campuses across the country.READ MORE›

Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing

Panjiva brings intelligent search and better information to the fashion industry's hunt for suppliers.READ MORE›

Fast Talk: The Creative Impulse

Five young professionals in the fields of fashion, design, publishing, advertising, and architecture discuss the source of their creativity and what drives it.READ MORE›

Barneys and Friend

Sheldon Gilbert helps the hip department store decode the desires of its online customers.READ MORE›

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• The State of Mobile Advertising

Cambodia's Seamstresses Exemplify Global Trends Toward Investment in the Female Market

MasterCard is eyeing the emerging middle classes of women in Asia and Cambodia is as good a test case as anywhere else -- and it offers a CSR branding point.READ MORE›

Lululemon’s Cult of Selling

Lululemon has created a cult following for its yoga gear. Its secret? The Secret, as well as other controversial self-help classics.READ MORE›

• Big Stretch

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Brings Fashion to New York's Lincoln Center

Her big idea? Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled."READ MORE›

Ruling The Roost

Like just about everything Crispin Porter + Bogusky does, the Subservient Chicken ad campaign is risky and extreme. It's also very, very smart.READ MORE›

A Cast of Leaders

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ MORE›

The Road Not Taken

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