At Fashion Week, look of a down economy
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New York Fashion Week, that biannual ritual of luxury and excess, came this week at an odd time.
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Spring fashion will look like a rainy day, if the latest predictions are true, with plenty of gray and brown and just brief glimpses of color like the sun breaking through a cloudy sky.
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The women's fashion retailer warns of lower earnings and sales.
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Spring fashion is beginning to take shape in the opening days of New York Fashion Week &#151; however loose that shape may be.
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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Reports on factory orders and the labor market portrayed an economy that is skirting recession as attention shifts to government figures on employment to be released Friday.
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The slowdown may signal that the economy is shifting down a notch from its unexpectedly robust pace of growth at the end of last year.
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The double whammy of a worsening housing slump and a credit crunch is punching the economy in its gut. That's likely to mean a period of slower activity in the months ahead.
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A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
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Fashion forecasters predict that New  York's fashion week, starting on Friday, will bring everything  from a return to conservative dressing to a taste for Latin  American-styled clothes in the months ahead.
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Life & style: Only three days into the menswear shows in Milan and already two rather improbable trends are emerging: gold and see-through clothes.
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Tiffanyâs holiday slowdown was unexpected and sent jitters through the luxury-goods industry, which had seemed invulnerable, even as the housing market began to sputter.
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Thousands of outfits were paraded on the runways of New York Fashion Week as top designers previewed their collections for spring. But what &#151; if any &#151; look will take off?
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Data to be released this week was expected to bring more evidence that the consumer side of the economy is faltering amid rising price pressures and a tight job market.
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A few trends are starting to appear in the opening days of Fashion Week: a linear silhouette, a surfeit of men's wear fabrics and a certain sexiness.
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The news flash from New York Fashion Week may be the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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It is Fashion Week, the temperatures are subfreezing, and so an ode to the snug down coat is due.