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      <title>Saks closes its $2.7 billion Neiman Marcus deal, redrawing luxury retail</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How the Garment District actually works, block by block</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New York's Garment District survives on walk-in proximity and a zoning law the city rewrote in 2018. Here is how the district's production economy works — and whether it holds.]]></description>
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      <title>Who Really Decides When a Designer Shows at Fashion Week?</title>
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      <title>How New York&apos;s New Local Production Fund Actually Pays Garment Makers</title>
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      <title>How New York&apos;s Biggest Design Prize Actually Pays Out</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund used to crown one winner and send everyone else home empty-handed. Here's how the math changed, and what it means for the ten designers competing this year.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Camilla Williams</dc:creator>
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      <title>When Fashion Groups Start Selling Their Buildings, Watch Fifth Avenue</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kering's reported talks to sell a stake in its $963M Fifth Avenue property revealed how NYC luxury retail became a real-estate story first. Analysis.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Margot Deveraux</dc:creator>
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      <title>Saks Is Back — Except It&apos;s Called Exemplar Luxury Group Now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[June 26, 2026: Saks Global exited Chapter 11 as Exemplar Luxury Group, debt cut over 75%. The Fifth Avenue flagship survives; the outlet era ends.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Three Months After Warning of a Weak Year, Macy&apos;s Raised Its Forecast — On Luxury</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On June 3, 2026 Macy's lifted its annual outlook to $2.00-$2.20 EPS as Bloomingdale's comps jumped 10.2% - reversing its cautious March guidance.]]></description>
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      <title>Tapestry Is Becoming a One-Brand Company, and Kate Spade Is Paying for It</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[May 7, 2026: Coach rose 31% while Kate Spade fell 10% inside Manhattan-based Tapestry - the starkest split yet inside one fashion group.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>After Versace, Capri Is Just a New York Company Again — and Its Numbers Show It</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Capri's Feb 3, 2026 quarter was its first without Versace after the Prada sale closed Dec 2. Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo now define the slimmer NYC group.]]></description>
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      <title>Ralph Lauren Beats Again — and Warns Tariffs Will Bite This Spring</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Feb 5, 2026 Ralph Lauren raised its outlook after revenue jumped 12% to $2.41B - while warning a tariff margin squeeze arrives this spring.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bloomingdale&apos;s Just Became the Most Important Store in Macy&apos;s Portfolio</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[March 18, 2026 results: Bloomingdale's comps up 9.9% as Macy's forecasts a weaker 2026. New York luxury is carrying the department store model.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael Kors Puts &apos;New York Chic&apos; Back at the Center of Fashion Week</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the Feb 13, 2026 fall show, Michael Kors made New York itself the thesis of NYFW - a homecoming statement from the city's biggest commercial brand.]]></description>
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      <title>Saks Files for Bankruptcy — and Most Saks Off 5th Stores Won&apos;t Survive It</title>
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