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Byline: Sharon Edelson THIRTY YEARS AGO, JOYCE MA INTRODUCED designers such as Giorgio Armani to Hong Kong through her Joyce boutiques. The retailer now sells more than 230 key brands [...]

HONG KONG (FNS) -- The hot boutique in Hong Kong's exclusive new shopping complex, the Galleria, is the sparkling 'World of Joyce.' Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd. has invested $11 million [...]

HONG KONG - Famed fashion retailer Joyce Ma is stepping down. The woman who launched numerous Western designer brands in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the Far East said last [...]

Byline: Constance Haisma-Kwok, With contributions from Miles Socha and Katya Foreman, Paris; Marc Karimzadeh, New York, and Alessandra Ilari, Amanda Kaiser and Luisa Zargani, Milan HONG KONG - Joyce Ma, [...]

Byline: Bambina Wise JOHANNESBURG - Belinda Seper, the woman behind the Belinda boutique, is the Australian equivalent of Joyce Ma, Ikram Goldman and Joan Burstein. She does not advertise, yet [...]

FLOOR SHOW: Madonna and Guy Ritchie have them in their London home, while Elton John has bought some for his apartment in Venice. Upscale Hong Kong retailer Joyce Ma collects [...]

Reports that upscale retailer Joyce Boutique Holdings has unveiled a proposed $10 million 1-for-1 rights issue in a bid to raise cash. Pledge of Joyce Ma, head of the firm, and her immediate family; Impact of the pledge on existing shareholders; Performance of the company's shares in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; Development on the negotiation for the lease of its flagship Galleria World of Joyce.

This article deals with several brands of retail apparel highlighted in international fashion shows by fashion designers in Paris, France. Balenciaga was the most-praised label, with retailer Linda Dresner regards it as the richest collection in Paris. Other widely lauded lines included Lanvin, Rochas, Dries Van Noten, Yves Saint Laurent and Chloé, with newer names like Tao Comme des Garçons also earning accolades.

A new Donna Karen Co DKNY boutique scheduled to be opened in Shenzhen, China, in the fall of 1993 is thought to be the first independent US clothing designer store in China. It will be owned by Hong Kong businesswoman Joyce Ma, who already has 25 stores in Asia. The Donna Karan Co will proceed slowly in China as part of its international growth scheme. The company's biggest overseas market is Japan, which buys $25 million wholesale yearly. In 1992 Donna Karan recorded $270 million in wholesale sales., NEW YORK -- Donna Karan has taken a small first step into what may be fashion's new Promised Land: China. This fall, a DKNY boutique will open in Shenzhen, a [...]

Joyce Ma owns a $60 million retail and publishing enterprise that includes her own charge card, boutiques and a magazine. The 51-year old Ma has homes in London, England; Hong Kong; Milan, Italy; Paris, France and New York, NY and she opened a new 16,000-sq-ft store in March 1992, in Hong Kong. The store is part flower shop, part boutique and part apothecary. Named the World of Joyce, the store also has an espresso bar and sells a variety of seafood and vegetarian dishes. Ma's boutiques offer such upscale lines as Giorgio Armani, Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler., NEW YORK - With her name spread from one end of Hong Kong to the other - on boutiques, a magazine, a newsletter and her own charge card - Joyce [...]

The article offers views of different buyers in the fashion retail industry regarding the high sale in Paris, France. Cropped jackets, romantic blouses, skinny pants, small handbags and platform shoes were frequently cited as key items, while the most admired collections included Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Dries Van Noten and Stella McCartney. Buyers who gave their insights on the fashion week in Paris include Michael Fink, Stephanie Solomon and Jennifer Wheeler.

The article presents information on the launch of the luxury retail store Joyce from designer Romeo Gigli in Hong Kong, China. The author looks at the fall collection, which went on sale on July 24, 2012, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Institute of Textiles and Clothing, and the private clothing label Joyce by Romeo Gigli.

The article reports on the return of Adrienne Ma to Hong Kong's retail scene as chief executive of her own company Amma Holdings. Amma is scheduled to open the city's first Y's Mandarina Duck store in Kowloon and a second shop at Central's IFC mall. Amma has two divisions, retail and consultancy. Ma shares that she enjoyed what she did at Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd. but the world has changed and she needs to see how it is to do her own business.

The article discusses the strategy of fashion stores to open branches globally in 2007. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren has opened two stores in the Russian market in May. It is noted that Tokyo, Japan, was the epicenter of majority of the year's openings, featuring a towering retail emporium from Gucci and a retail expansion by Herms. Meanwhile, Saks Fifth Avenue opened its first store in Mexico in November.

Byline: LUISA ZARGANI Remembering Ottavio Missoni Gallarate, Italy Rarely could a funeral be more colorful than Ottavio Missoni's, as his family, friends, several members of the fashion industry, employees and [...]

Ong Beng Seng's top representative in the US, Steve Grapstein, has confirmed that Ong and his wife Christina are interested in acquiring Barneys. If they hope to do so, however, they must submit a bid by Jul 7, 1997. Since the early 1970s, the Singapore-based Ongs have quietly and efficiently built a worldwide fashion distribution and retailing empire that generates over $500 million in sales., When Gene Pressman of Barneys went on a search for likely candidates to rescue the retailer from Chapter 11, it was only natural he'd contact a growing force in designer [...]

Byline: JOYCE MAN Romeo Gigli Celebrates Return HONG KONG As he makes his comeback here this week with luxury retailer Joyce, whose founder he credits with helping discover him in [...]

Byline: Luisa Zargani Youth Movement Dolce & Gabbana Store Boosts New Designers MILAN Meet Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, retail buyers. With their new Dolce & Gabbana/Via Spiga 2 accessories-only [...]

More Y's Mandarina Duck on Display in Hong Kong HONG KONG The economic gloom is hovering over retailers here, but Adrienne Ma's fledgling company, Amma Holdings Ltd., is forging ahead. [...]

FASHION SCOOPS CASUAL CORNER: Abercrombie & Fitch is muscling its way into Milan's golden shopping triangle and opening a flagship in January. To be located in a stately building on [...]

Woo Takes New Role at Lane Crawford PARIS Lane Crawford said Tuesday its president, Jennifer Woo, would now helm the Hong Kong-based retail conglomerate, the Lane Crawford Joyce Group, effective [...]

SPACE EXPLORATION Ask anyone in crowded Hong Kong to name the ultimate luxury and you'll hear one word: space. In a city where the average apartment is just 600 square [...]

Byline: WWD Staff PARIS - Optimistic, colorful - and tempered with a modern edge. That's how buyers summed up a strong fashion week here, headlined by blockbuster shows from Lanvin, [...]

Byline: Faye Musselman CARLEN R SHOWROOM, 9-S-116B Sweet Chemise Two-year-old Sweet Chemise, a division of Vancouver-based Tension Clothing Inc., launched Stateside at AmericasMart in February. The dress line, which ranges [...]

Byline: Rebecca Kleinman Chalk it up to the new proportions. Following blousons, tunics and baby-doll tops, nontraditional jackets in boxy, trapeze and hourglass shapes are moving up the must-have list. [...]

Byline: Lisa Movius SHANGHAI - Joyce's first Mainland China boutique opened with much glitz and fanfare here last month. 'Our '2 days|2 cities|2 splendors' Hong Kong and Shanghai openings and [...]

Inspired by the idea that opening the door to the Hong Kong-based Joyce Boutique could be an enchanting experience, New York-based artist Michele Oka Doner sought out to combine art [...]

FROM LEGEND TO LEGEND: Ralph Lauren, who's receiving an American Fashion Legend Award at this year's Council of Fashion Designers of America's 2007 Fashion Awards, will have the honor bestowed [...]

Byline: Miles Socha Here are the typical ingredients needed to make a modern-day fashion show: a pitch-black tent, a celebrity crush, pounding music, an often joyless parade of clothes on [...]

Brendan Hoffman Neiman Marcus Direct Mr. Stanley is undoubtedly nodding his head. Forty years ago, Stanley Marcus, the late chairman emeritus of Neiman Marcus Stores, predicted in a speech that [...]

Byline: WWD Staff PARIS - World capital of fashion? Absolument. Retailers said the international marathon of fashion weeks ended on a high note in Paris, which offered not only jolts [...]

HONG KONG - 'I think China has huge potential. There is almost no downside to the future of retail there,' asserted Adrienne Ma, president of Joyce Boutique Holdings. Joyce will [...]

Byline: Constance Haisma-Kwok HONG KONG - 'I think China has huge potential. There is almost no downside to the future of retail there,' asserts Adrienne Ma, president of Joyce Boutique [...]

Byline: Miles Socha Sixty thousand mainland Chinese can't be wrong. That's roughly how many pour into Hong Kong every day, lured to a large extent by the prospect of tax-free [...]

Byline: Samantha Conti LONDON -- It's teatime and the doyenne of London's fashion retail world, Joan Burstein, was having a glass of pink champagne at Claridge's before the finger sandwiches [...]

Byline: Miles Socha PARIS -- Building, not cutting. That's the mantra of Valerie Hermann, the energetic new chief executive of Yves Saint Laurent, who plans to keep investing in product [...]

Byline: WWD Staff PARIS -- Paris puzzled more than it sizzled. Despite the lack of a compelling, unifying direction as the French capital wound up an international marathon of shows, [...]

ROLE PLAY: Chloe Sevigny is comfortable with just about any role, but modeling -- which is what she did for Dolce & Gabbana on Saturday -- tested her nerves. 'I [...]

MILAN -- Italian designers are dreaming of romantic getaways to Africa and India, and retailers are happy to go along for the ride. Calling it a solid Milan season, buyers [...]

PARIS -- Did the Paris collections sizzle or fizzle? That all depends who you ask. In one of the most divisive seasons in memory, international retailers took distinctly opposing views [...]

MILAN -- The deep recession in Japan may be forcing bankruptcies and rising unemployment, but there's at least one relative pocket of strength: The young luxury set -- consumers in [...]

The rallying cry goes out from retailers across the globe: 'Show me something different.' With pressure on them to perform more intense than ever, buyers are perpetually in search of [...]

HONG KONG -- The conglomerate bug has hit retail here. Joyce Boutique Holdings and Lane Crawford -- two of Asia's most prestigious retailers -- are siblings, since Wheelock and Co., [...]

HONG KONG -- A proposed deal that would have facilitated the entry of Joyce Boutique Holdings into cyberspace has fallen through. In March, as reported, Joyce, one of Asia's most [...]

The tightly held reins of luxury brands are loosening up a bit when it comes to selling online. The pioneers of upscale e-commerce are beginning to prove themselves as viable [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A global village? Not yet -- at least where fashion is concerned. A visit last week to Harvard, when Comme des Garcons' Rei Kawakubo was honored by [...]

HONG KONG -- Joyce is going into e-commerce and out of family hands. Joyce Boutique Holdings, one of Asia's premier luxury retailers, is about to be taken over by a [...]

The reality of the Internet is that it's less a clean stretch of autobahn than a highway flanked by strip malls with endless flashing neon signs and tacky billboards fighting [...]

NEW YORK -- Style365.com, an online directory of products and services, original editorial content and e-commerce, goes live this Sunday. Co-founders Terron Schaefer and Andrew Leary have created a site [...]

HONG KONG -- Sex appeal and premium prices may sell in Europe and America, but in Asia, the big incentives to buy lingerie are conservative, basic styles and a moderate [...]