FASHION INDUSTRY NEWS – FRIDAY

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TIMBERLAND TEAMS WITH CLOUDTAGS TO LAUNCH DIGITALLY CONNECTED STORE – FootwearNews
“Beginning on Jan. 17, customers will be able to engage with the product using tablets to access digital product information, styling options and recommendations. Before leaving the store, they can choose to opt in via email to receive personalized emails based on their store visit.”

SEARS TO CLOSE MORE STORES – RetailingToday
“The troubled retailer is closing what it described as a “very small percentage” of its overall number of Kmart and Sears stores across the country.”

PERRY ELLIS SETTLES EXPLOSIVE LAWSUIT ALLEGING RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA – NewYorkPost
“The Miami-based apparel company said the complaint filed in October by senior exec Joseph Cook was “amicably resolved” and that as of Jan. 22, he will no longer work for the company where he had been president of the wholesale division of Original Penguin.”

AT PITTI UOMO, ANGLES OF APPROACH – TheNewYorkTimes
“One of the wonders of fashion is how easily it lends itself to odd angles of approach. With an eye on emerging Asian markets, the organizers of Pitti Uomo — the men’s wear trade show that draws as many as 35,000 international visitors to Florence every January and June — they invited Juun.J (pronounced June Gee; his real name is Jung Wook-jun) to present a men’s wear collection, a stroke of timing that worked for all involved.”

REPORT: ANTHONY VACCARELLO IN TALKS TO REPLACE SLIMANE AT SAINT LAURENT – NYMag
“The paper claims that he has yet to reach a contract agreement with parent company Kering, and that they have already started to talk to a potential successor — Belgian designer Anthony Vaccarello, who shares Slimane’s love of barely there minis, if not his affection for all things grunge. “