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Monday, March 19, 2007

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-Abercrombie & Fitch unveiled its first European unit Monday at the corner of Burlington Gardens and Savile Row, a quiet street in London where everyone from Winston Churchill to Gianni Versace has had clothing made. Despite the apparent culture clash, Abercrombie chairman and chief executive officer Mike Jeffries believes there's a good reason to be there...

-Selfridges is subtly reinventing itself yet again, beginning with a new $20 million project called the Wonder Room, a luxury lifestyle emporium that will offer merchandise such as cult toys, cigars, mobile phones, jewelry and wine. The space, which spans about 20,000 square feet on the ground floor, will open at the end of August...

-Redlux, Alessandro Dell'Acqua's new owners, have an ambitious agenda for the brand. The company has entered into a partnership with Ellegi Inc. and created a firm called Ready, which will distribute the Dell'Acqua brand in North and South America and will manage the brand's flagship on Madison Avenue in Manhattan...



For complete coverage, see tomorrow's issue of WWD.





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