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Israeli who helped bring H&M to country
You should do the same if you don’t have H&M in your county
Over a year ago Sandy Livak-Furmanski formed a hugely popular Facebook group calling on Swedish fashion chain to make aliyah. On Tuesday she received a thank you letter from the company, which decided to do just that
Sandy Livak-Furmanski, 30, from Givatayim received a thank you letter from the press department of fashion chain H&M on Tuesday, acknowledging her support of the Swedish clothing giant’s coming to Israel.
Over a year ago Sandy, a great fan of the chain’s clothes, founded a group on Facebook dedicated to bringing the chain to Israel. The group, titled “Open an H&M store in Israel!” started out with only a few members, most of them Sandy’s friends, but rapidly expanded and currently consists of more than 11,000 members, mostly women.
“We are very pleased to inform you of the decision (to open a store in Israel) and thank you for your support and enthusiasm. It’s a strong vote of confidence,” the H&M letter read. “We very much appreciate your interest in H&M and hope you’ll share this news with all of your members.”
Tired of shopping abroad
“It started out as a joke,” Sandy admitted Tuesday. “Every time I visited my grandmother in Finland I would buy heaps of clothes and return to Israel with tons of items.
“I thought that it was high time the company opened a store here,” she explained.
Add comment December 11, 2008
Fashion chain H&M to open stores in Israel
i think many people were curious to have H&M in Israel 
Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz said on Tuesday it had entered into a franchise agreement with Match Retail Ltd to open stores in Israel. The company said in a statement the first H&M store in the country was planned to open in 2010. H&M said Match Retail Ltd was a privately owned company founded by the Horesh family for the exclusive purpose of handling H&M in Israel.
“There has been a great interest in H&M from the Israeli market for quite some time and we believe that our business concept will suit the Israeli market well,” H&M Chief Executive Rolf Eriksen said in the statement.
Add comment December 9, 2008
H&M opens its 2nd store at the landmark extension in Qatar
happy shopping in Quatar
H & M, Hennes & Mauritz, the international fashion retailer today opened its second ladies only store in the Landmark extension in Qatar.
The new H&M store is a ladies only concept spread over 800 sq meters and featuring exclusive designs just for women. The expansion of the trendy high street brand is a result of H&M’s strategic partnership with M.H. Alshaya, the Middle East’s leading retailers.
Mr Jazz Hayer, Business Director H&M Middle East, said:
‘The positive response we received since opening our first H&M store in Qatar is evidence that the H&M unique concept of quality fashion at an affordable price truly works in this market. We look forward to the continuing success of the H&M brand in this vibrant market.’
Available at this new H&M store will be the latest collections, for women, in season’s most fashionable colours and designs.
Add comment December 2, 2008
H&M signs top designer to boost sales
so one can spend more money on the next spending spree
H&M, the budget retailer, has signed British celebrity designer Matthew Williamson to create its next guest collection. It hoped the move will drive sales during the economic slowdown.
(picture by NCinDC/flickr under CC 2.0 license)
Williamson’s first women’s collection will launch in stores H&M on April 23 next year, and will be followed up by a summer collection for men and women from mid-May.
The fashion retailer’s strategy of bringing in guest designers – such as Madonna, Roberto Cavalli and Stella McCartney – has been a success for the group, which is currently dealing with a tough economic environment for retailers.
Past launches have caused frenzied scenes as shoppers rushed to by goods at cut rate prices. When Stella McCartney’s collection went on sale in November 2005, shoppers bought the entire range in 60 minutes.
Add comment November 25, 2008
H&M enters the Oman market with first store in Qurum City Centre
happy shopping in Oman
H&M, Hennes&Mauritz, the international fashion retailer, will soon arrive at another new regional destination.
Fashion aficionados in Muscat will have lots to look forward to in the large 920 square metre store that is all set to open in November 2008 at the Qurum City Centre, the newest retail hub in Oman. This new H&M store will be dedicated to ladies’ and kids’ fashion along with denimwear.
The expansion of the trendy high street brand is a result of H&M’s strategic partnership with MH Alshaya, one of the Middle East’s leading retailers.
Jazz Hayer, Business Director H&M Middle East, anticipates that this new H&M store will be the first step for the brand’s long relationship with the booming retail market in Oman.
“Muscat is growingly becoming an important retail market in the Middle East with many new shopping destinations and top international brands entering the market. So we are very excited to make our debut in Muscat as well with our exciting brand. We are certain that the Sultanate will have a fresh shopping experience at our H&M store in Muscat,” said Hayer.
Available at this new H&M store will be the latest collections in the season’s most fashionable colours and designs.
3 comments October 30, 2008
H&M Collaborate With Berlin Design Duo
H&M teamed up with a small Berlin based label.
While H&M is known for its collaborations with famous designers like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney and Comme des Garcons, things are a little different in their new store in Berlin’s hip Hackesche Markt neighborhood. In a collaboration with the young Berlin designer duo C.neeon, H&M is offering 300 limited edition T-shirts in C.neeon’s signature geometric patterns. The T-shirts retail at 24.99 euros or about $34.50 at current exchange, and all proceeds will go to Berliner Tafel E.V., a charity which provides food for the homeless. “It all started when they asked us if we could do some illustrations for the walls, and then came the idea for the charity T-shirts,” said C.neeon designer Doreen Schulz.
1 comment October 25, 2008
Chinese fashion brands address new challenges
a quite interesting article from china
YOUNG Chinese, especially the “Me” generation, love their clothes – which means good business for fashion stores. But as more international brands make their way into China, local brands are lifting their game to meet demand too, writes Michelle Zhang.
When Zara opened its first outlet in Shanghai in 2006, dedicated Chinese shoppers waited in queues, vying with each other to try on flattering, affordable pieces freshly delivered from Europe.
The Spanish fashion brand recently launched its fourth store in Shanghai, which is within a stone’s throw of H&M’s flagship store and a C&A store on Huaihai Road M.
In fact, high-street fashion brands like Zara and H&M have become so much part of the fashion landscape nowadays that when a person says they bought a piece from Zara or H&M, people are no longer surprised.
The stores are always crowded. Checking out new arrivals almost daily has become a routine for many a fashionista in town.
It is always good for consumers to have more options, the more the better. But at the same time, the thriving business of such brands in China is certainly making their local counterparts uncomfortable.
Kiki Fang, a 26-year-old Shanghainese lady, used to be a VIP customer with Esprit when she was in school.
Today, however, she no longer shops at the Hong Kong-based fashion chain. Like many of her girlfriends, she has become a big fan of H&M and Zara.
“I usually buy casual clothes from H&M ?? they are cheaper compared with those in Esprit,” explains the office worker. “And I buy formal wear and dresses from Zara. The prices are the same as Esprit, but the clothes are definitely more fashionable.”
With her office on Huaihai Road, Fang visits the two stores at least twice a week. “I don’t always find something there,” she says. “But I couldn’t dream of going more than a week without a visit.”
Fang is representative of a large group of young people, especially those living in big cities in China. Domestic brands have come to realize that they have to make changes, or they will lose the battle.
“I think it’s good that more and more international brands are coming to China,” says Ray Fung, general manager of Bossini in the Chinese mainland. “It shows the huge potential of the market, as well as Chinese people’s rising fashion awareness.”
Founded in 1987 in Hong Kong, Bossini is a widely recognized casual wear brand in China. It opened its first store in the Chinese mainland in 1993, and now has 522 stores around the country.
Add comment October 13, 2008
H&M one of the world’s best brands
H&M is doing really good!
Interbrand has released its annual ranking of the world’s best global brands 2008. Coca-Cola is still the number one brand with a brand value of 66,667 $m. Finland is leading the Nordic league with Nokia parked in fifth place, but the number of Swedish brands on the list have doubled from one to two. Apparel giant H&M is one of 8 new brands on the top 100 list and is ranked in 22nd place with a brand value of 13,840 $m
Add comment September 25, 2008
H&M Gets Green Light for Champs-Elysees
so the Parisians get a H&M at the heart of the city 
After a two-year struggle, Hennes & Mauritz has finally won its battle to open a store on Paris’s famed Avenue des Champs-Elysées.
On Wednesday, Paris’s Conseil d’Etat (or Council of State) threw out an appeal lodged by the Paris mayor’s office last January, contesting the French commission’s decision to allow H&M to open on the street.
The mayor’s office had argued that yet another large-scale fashion shop on the avenue would cheapen its prestige.
Add comment September 25, 2008
Is fast fashion going out of fashion?
Well at least Suzy Menkes thinks so
Whooooah! Slow down! Rein in the galloping madness! No – it’s not the economy or financial woes, although Intidex, the parent company of Zara did announce last week a fall in profits in the second quarter, slowing down its apparently unstoppable rise.
It is just time, after seven wild years, to say Basta! to fast fashion.
As a phenomenon, speedy style has given a shake up to the industry and brought the look of the moment to main street, with the collaboration of leading designers. It has proved that fashion does not have to be elitist and that big names are as capable of creating cheap chic as haute couture.
But, as with all things fashionable, from kitten-heel mules to girly frills, there is a moment when it is over. And for fast fashion, that is now – or perhaps in November, when Comme des Garçons and the cerebral Rei Kawakubo embrace H&M.
It all started with Karl Lagerfeld at H&M four years ago, kicking off a media phenomenon, marking a seismic cultural shift and creating lines of eager shoppers in capital cities across the globe.
Since then we have had the unpronounceable Proenza Schouler suddenly hitting billboards throughout America with their Target collaboration. H&M has ratcheted up a roster of designers, from Roberto Cavalli to Viktor & Rolf. Topshop of London has increased its long-term designer collaborations (Celia Birtwell, Zandra Rhodes, etc.) by presenting the super-cool model Kate Moss as design star. And just this month, the products that the Parisian boutique Colette produced with Gap sold like hot croissants in New York.
Add comment September 22, 2008
