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Amazon.com is entering the fashion subscription-box business.Sure, the e-commerce giant shook the supermarket world Friday when it unveiled its takeover of Whole Foods — but on Tuesday, it revealed its latest foray into that Coach Outlet Store Online other realm of day-to-day living: clothing. And like last week with grocers, its latest move hit clothing retailers hard.Prime Wardrobe, as Amazon calls it, is an attempt to bolster its fashion business as it tries to win Michael Kors Purses over shoppers’ closets. Amazon Prime subscribers can choose three or more pieces of clothing, shoes or accessories to fill their boxes, which arrive at their doorstep.They then have a week to try on the items and decide Coach Outlet Store what to keep and what to ship back to Amazon.Amazon is using this twist on the subscription-box phenomenon as part of a broader effort to grab people’s attention when they buy clothes. The online retailer is developing coach handbags its own stable of fashion labels to sell suits, dresses, lingerie and more.Amazon’s wardrobe quest hasn’t been entirely smooth. It canceled a short-lived fashion TV show, “Style Code Live,” which attempted to integrate shopping and live television.And Coach Factory Outlet brands have been wary about selling on Amazon due to concerns about counterfeit products sold on the site, which lets almost anyone post products after completing an online registration process.With Amazon’s move into apparel, Nordstrom shares fell coach factory outlet 4 percent, to $46.26, while JCPenney dropped 5.2 percent, to $4.59, and Kohl’s was down 4 percent, to $36.03.Amazon’s Prime Wardrobe remains in a testing period, the company said.
As Crux notes, Pope John Paul II could Longchamp Bag “rock a cape” like no one else, posing for photos “showing his red mantle billowing in the wind.” Meanwhile, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI garnered headlines for his ermine-trimmed velvet cape and bespoke red slippers.By contrast, Pope Francis Longchamp Sale showed up at the Vatican after a trip to the beach with a torn sleeve. He wears only the plainest black loafers, eschews any ornament and prefers wool to silk.“I don’t exclude the possibility that in the coach purses evening he just puts [his vestment] to wash and wears it again the next morning,” Mancinelli tells Crux.The pope won’t even let the poor guy make him a new pair of trousers. “His are black, and I Longchamp wanted to make lighter pants to wear under the cassock,” Mancinelli laments. “ ‘No,’ he said. ‘These are fine.’ ”Though some more old-fashioned Catholics may miss the days when priests “dressed to the nines,” Mancinelli does see a silver Michael Kors lining in the church’s more modest tone.“Maybe now we can concentrate more on the will of God instead of men,” he says.
Et tu, outlet malls?After years of being seemingly insulated from the ills affecting department stores, the country’s 200-plus outlet malls are Michael Kors Outlet Store starting to show signs of strain.Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, which owns 43 centers in 22 states and is the largest publicly traded pure-play outlet operator in the US, is throwing off some warning signs, experts tell The Post.The Greensboro, NC, company, seen as a bellwether for the sector, is not planning any outlet openings for 2018, one industry watcher said — Michael Kors Sale noting it was the first time in recent memory that no new opening has occurred.Plus, Tanger isn’t attracting the shoppers that it was used to, according to RS Metrics, a satellite data company.Tanger used to lead all Coach Outlet outlet centers in drawing consumers but now, like all centers, is seeing only a modest increase in shoppers, according to RS Metrics, which uses satellites to monitor cars in scores of shopping centers.“They are no longer outperforming Michael Kors the sector,” said Mike Gantcher, managing director of RS Metrics.At investment bank Boenning & Scattergood, analyst Floris van Dijkum predicts that base rentals will rise 3.5 percent next year, down from a 6.6 percent bump in 2016.Tanger Michael Kors Outlet shares are down 31 percent over the past 12 months, and the company earlier this year said profits for 2017 would be lower than expected.Bank of America analyst Craig Schmidt recently downgraded Tanger to underperform from neutral.Many Coach Outlet Online of the same shoppers who filled parking lots at these far-from-urban center outlets now see just as strong a value at off-pricers like T.J. Maxx or Nordstrom Rack, some said.Investors have also expressed concerns about the company’s Michael Kors Handbags reliance on apparel stores — among the worst hit by the so-called retail apocalypse — which make up 58 percent of the company’s rent roll, according to van Dijkum.Other outlet center operators, like Simon Properties — owner Coach Factory Store of the largest outlet center in the country, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets — and Macerich Properties and GGP have also come under pressure.The warning signs in the outlet industry “are going to show up in Tanger first,” Michael Kors Outlet Online said real estate lawyer Jeff Green, of Jeff Green Partners.There could be a new threat to outlet centers coming down the pike: new centers opening up smack dab within the borders of big cities like New York, coach outlet San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.Macerich is developing several urban outlet centers, including a $500 million makeover of the former Gallery Mall into the Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia at Market East.In the Big Apple, an enormous Michael Kors Outlet project — Empire Outlets, billed as the city’s first outlet center — is expected to open next year on Staten Island’s waterfront.“The outlets are coming closer to, and into, cities — and that’s a two-edged sword for Michael Kors Bags retail,” said Customer Growth Partners president Craig Johnson. “You have the risk of cannibalization of the full-price retailers.”
If the company that owns Ugg boots doesn’t step into line, its board could get kicked to the curb.Activist Coach Outlet Store Online investment fund Marcato Capital, which has been prodding Ugg’s struggling parent Deckers Outdoors to sell itself, threatened to wage a proxy battle to replace all of its board directors if they don’t act soon.Although Deckers began a Longchamp Outlet strategic review in April, Marcato boss Mick McGuire griped in a Tuesday letter that its board showed a “lack of transparency” in the proceedings.Ugg boots, whose sheepskin styles account for 80 percent of Deckers’ sales, have wavered Michael Kors Outlet Online Sale in popularity in recent years since exploding on the scene in the early aughts. The brand tried to raise prices in 2012 amid a sheepskin supply crunch but shoppers balked.Facing a supply glut last year, the brand coach outlet online started selling its boots at Macy’s, downmarket from Ugg’s usual retailers such as Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus.Following the slip-ups of Deckers’ premier boot brand, Marcato Capital amassed a 6 percent stake in Deckers in February, pushing it Michael Kors Outlet Online Sale to pursue a sale.McGuire bemoaned Deckers’ “history of underperformance” that he said was brought on by “wasteful capital allocation,” heavy corporate spending and a “failed retail expansion strategy.”The hedge fund previously offered to settle for “limited representation” Coach Purses on the board to help with the sales process the company announced in April, but that offer so far has been refused.“While we typically seek to work constructively with boards to implement change, we view this situation Michael Kors Outlet Clearance differently,” McGuire wrote.Shares of Deckers, which are up 48 percent since Marcato initiated its stake in February, popped 1.2 percent to $67.72 Tuesday.“We appreciate the views of our stockholders,” Deckers said in a statement. “As previously announced coach factory on April 25, 2017, our board of directors is reviewing a broad range of strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value.”McGuire’s bravado comes less than a month after he won three board seats at Buffalo Wild Wings and Coach Bags forced the exit of longtime CEO Sally Smith.
Guess these celebs aren’t afraid of coffee stains.White jeans are hitting their perennial peak, and stars are breaking theirs out like there’s no tomorrow — or like it’s Labor Coach Outlet Stores Day tomorrow.Though most opt for the usual skinny-fits, there are a few quirky pairs. Most noteworthy are the kind-of-weird but kind-of-cool detachable pant-shorts, worn by Bella Hadid and her sister Gigi.The jeans in question are by Paris-based Michael Kors Outlet Online label Y/Project. Bella donned them first, with a python belt and white Dior T-shirt, in a photoshoot for Elle France’s May issue. Then, in June, Gigi stepped out in the same pair, but blinged her look out Coach Handbags with Jacquie Aiche jewels and a slinky pair of Aquazzura heels.Click through the gallery above for five celeb-approved ways to style white denim. It’s not the freshest trend, but it’s a classic — and we’re quite all Michael Kors Factory Store white with it.
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