The lifelong deep knowledge of fashion and design by Elie Tahari has given him a special place in the world of luxury. The globally recognised brand has a footprint on five continents across the world and is available in over 600 shops in over 40 countries. The brand has grown to include women's clothing, shoes and cosmetics, and menswear, and has come to reflect chic style influenced by the designers with collections of understated beauty and elegance. Later in the decade, Elie Tahari emigrated to the U.S. from Israel and began living in the fashion centre of New York City while moonlighting at a Greenwich Village store. Tahari started making the eponymous drug Tahari in 1973 after succeeding in popularising the tube top. In the years that followed, Elie Tahari opened his own boutique on Madison Avenue, showed the company's own billboard all over New York City, and hosted his first runway show on Studio 54. In the 1980s, Tahari matured, turning his attention to the tailor made suit that would mark a decade. His first adverts included Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His first store at Bloomingdale's NYC opened in 1989, followed by Saks Fifth Avenue, and Tahari was named one of Crain's most influential 40 under 40s. Elie Tahari has opened the decade with his first cover of the Women's Wear Daily featuring a Tahari wool suit illuminated as the theme of the season, and is elected to the American Fashion Designers Council. The corporation moves to new offices in the Grace building on West 42nd Street, where the major department stores now carry. Tahari launched a big expansion programme involving licences and overseas sales, and created Sante D'Orazzio's first picture book that was sent to over 200,000 customers. Furthermore, broadcast networks have started to note the series of serial parts on Ally McBeal, The X files and Will & Grace. Tahari was the model featured at the Macy's annual Passport fashion show in Los Angeles that helps raise more than $2 million for AIDS awareness and was asked to speak with President Clinton at the White House. In 1997, in addition to setting up his own business, Tahari became the founding partner and artistic director of Theory. In 2002, the name of the company was changed from Tahari to Elie Tahari, and the founder bought 510 Fifth Avenue which became the hub for brand design. Tahari has opened boutiques in Soho, Las Vegas, Chicago, London, East Hampton's Main Street and Boca Raton, Florida. In 2006, he launched women's footwear and menswear, and was seen on the runway at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Time Magazine's "Elie Tahari on a Tear" photographer Terry Richardson, who started shooting the brands ' ad campaigns and the collection was first used. The company continues to expand in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, opening freestanding boutiques in Istanbul, Turkey, and Dubai, as well as U.S. boutiques in Newport Beach, California, Washington, D.C., Dallas and a 510 5th Floor pop-up shop dubbed The Vault, as well as an e-commerce website called elietahari.com. To celebrate the brand's 40th anniversary, Tahari produced a four-decade capsule collection named "Elie Tahari 1974" which features retrofitted silhouettes in apparel. Mayor Bloomberg announced ' Elie Tahari Day ' on September 4, 2013 in commemoration of his 40 years of business. The brand was awarded with a Client Dream award by Fashion Group International and for three seasons, Tahari served as a guest judge on Project Runway All-Stars. In 2014 the company launched the outdoor line of eyewear, home, and Elie Tahari, and collaborated with photographer Steven Klein on brand marketing campaigns. With more office-centered models joining the market, Tahari turned his attention to the tailor-made suit in the 1980s, and the business elite ranked as women.

Tommy Hilfiger, also known as the Tommy Hilfiger Company and Tommy Hilfiger Inc., is an American premium luxury retailer that markets clothes, boots, accessories, fragrances, and home furnishings. The business was founded in 1985, and is now sold in 100 countries in department stores and over 2000 small retail stores. Apax Partners, a private equity group, acquired Tommy Hilfiger in 2006 for around $1.6 billion, and the company was bought by PVH Corp. in May 2004. Daniel Grieder was named CEO in July 2014, while Founder Tommy Hilfiger remains chief boss of the brand, overseeing the design divisions and supervising the entire creative process. Worldwide retail sales for the company stood at USD 6.4 billion in 2013, and USD 6.7 billion in 2014. The retail career of Tommy Hilfiger began in 1968, when he co-founded People's Place, an upstate clothing and record store in New York. Using $150 he'd saved from serving as venture capital at a gas station, he oversaw the growth of the company into a chain of ten supermarkets. Since meeting with initial development in 1977, People's Position had applied for bankruptcy In 1979 Hilfiger moved to New York City to pursue a fashion designer career, working on numerous brands including Jordache Jeans. He encountered Mohan Murjani, an Indian garment magnate who in the early 1980s had been trying to start a men's clothing business. Hilfiger launched his first signature line in 1985, with Murjani's backing, featuring modernized versions of button-down shirts, chinos and other classic preppy designs. The relaxed youthful spirit of those first designs will remain a staple in Tommy Hilfiger Brand's subsequent collections. The modern retail brand made its debut in Times Square with a high-profile promotional campaign involving a major advertiser George Lois. In 1989 the business Tommy Hilfiger with Silas Chou left Murjani International to provide financial assistance instead. Tommy Hilfiger, Inc., a recently formed company with an initial focus on casual male sportswear, hired Lawrence Stroll and Joel Horowitz, both former Ralph Lauren executives, that year as executives. In March 2010, Phillips-Van Heusen purchased the Tommy Hilfiger Company for $3 billion, in a transaction that was about seven times what PVH paid for Calvin Klein in 2003. Fred Gehring, who created Hilfiger's European division in 1996, has assumed the position of Hilfiger's CEO. Foreign retail sales for the company totaled US$ 6.4 billion in 2013, and US$ 6.7 billion in 2014. Daniel Grieder was elevated to CEO of the Tommy Hilfiger Group in July 2014. Former CEO Gehring was the Executive Director of Tommy Hilfiger Group, and was appointed the Vice President of PVH. Tommy Hilfiger opened a digital distribution showroom at its headquarters in New York City in January 2015, which the WGSN publication believed would change the traditional purchasing process. Hilfiger described the showroom as an innovation in the order process providing cost-saving options across the entire supply chain, with plans for opening showrooms in other cities. Gehring stepped down as Chairman of the Tommy Hilfiger Group in August 2015, while maintaining his position at PVH. Tommy Hilfiger and other major American apparel firms, including Calvin Klein and Sears, were plaintiffs, claiming that luxurious clothing was being manufactured in Saipan under sweatshop conditions. Since an agreement reached in March 2000 which acknowledged no responsibility Tommy Hilfiger is the brand's largest owner, overseeing manufacturing divisions and managing Tommy Hilfiger businesses internationally selling their products under the labels of Hilfiger Denim Tommy Hilfiger, while also offering a wide variety of brands for adults, women and children such as Hilfiger Line, Tommy Hilfiger Fitted, sportswear, shoes, footwear and boots. The company is also authorised for a range of items, including fragrances, eyewear, watches, and home furnishings. A class action lawsuit in the late 1990's,

TAG Heuer is a Swiss luxury watchmaker that designs, produces and markets watches and fashion accessories, as well as eyewear and mobile phones manufactured under licence by other firms and bearing the brand name TAG Heuer. The firm, founded in 1860 by Edouard Heuer in St-Imier, Switzerland, began as Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG. In 1985 TAG Group acquired a controlling interest in the company and formed TAG Heuer. In 1999, approximately 100 per cent of French luxury goods company LVMH was acquired by the Swiss conglomerate. The name TAG Heuer fuses the poet's nickname with the words "Techniques d'Avant Garde." Head of TAG Heuer is CEO Stéphane Bianchi, with headquarters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The founder's grand-grandchild, Jack Heuer, is the Chairman of Honour. TAG Heuer runs a watchmaking workshop at the watchmaking plant in Cornol, Switzerland and La Chaux-de-Fonds. TAG Heuer's motto is, "Swiss Avant-Garde since 1860." Heuer was granted a patent in 1911 on the first Dashboard chronograph, the "Time of Flight." Two large hands hanging from the middle pinion, designed for use in automobiles and aircrafts, display the time of day as on a conventional clock. A tiny pair of paws, put above the dial, show the duration of the journey. A top-mounted crown allows the user to set the time; the start / end / reset functions of the trip counter period in 1914 are performed by a button in that crown. Heuer had his very first wrist chronograph created. Around 12 o'clock the crown was in place, when the pocket chronograph inspired the first wrist chronographs. The "Mikrograph" was invented in 1916 by Charles-Auguste as a friend of Edward Heuer's, the first 1/100 of a second precise stopwatch. The "Semikrograph," a stopwatch offering 1/50 of a second time, and a split-second element followed the trend easily. In 1975 Heuer introduced a mechanical chronograph, the Chronosplit, featuring combined LED and LCD screens. Two Lead screens turned up at the later ones. Heuer published a series of trend-inspired Lemania 5100 chronographs in the mid-1970's. The gestures of the Lemania 5100 include the minute hand for the chronograph on the middle pinion (rather than on a smaller register), which significantly increases legibility. The Lemania 5100 operation is considered very robust and has been used in numerous military chronographs issued to pilots. There are ten models of Heuer chronograph powered by Lemania stainless steel, black finished, pewter-coated, Carrera dialed acrylic crystal PVD finish, Carrera dialed acrylic crystal stainless steel, as well as Silverstone (Black dial steel case) and Cortina (Blue dial steel case) models; A.M.I. (Italian Air Force) model 510.543 and a special edd. Several of the more recent[announced versions include the Monaco V4 (whose movement is guided by belts instead of gears); the Carrera Calibre 360 and the Monaco 69, each with a millisecond-precise optical chronograph and a traditional mechanical movement, with a hinged mechanism that enables wearers to switch the watch between their two distinct dials. Since 2004 Christoph Behling, from London, has been chief designer of TAG Heuer. The collaboration has also helped to launch some of the company's most famous products, such as the Mikrogirder 1/2000th, the fastest chronograph in the world, in 2012. Many TAG Heuer watches have chronographs on them. In January 2011, TAG Heuer introduced the latest Carrera Mikrograph, the first TAG Heuer to use the micrograph technology in-house and is accurate to 1/100 of a second. In turn, TAG Heuer has introduced the special version of the Carrera MP4-12C to mark the introduction of the McLaren MP4-12C Supercar. TAG Heuer has been a member of McLaren F1 team for more than 26 years. The company motto of TAG Heuer is: "Don't crumble under pressure." The phrase was first introduced in 1991.

Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek, and a flagship company of The Swatch Group. The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz alarm" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which modern Asian-made watches rivaled traditional European-made mechanical watches. The name Swatch is a contraction of the second watch, since the watches were meant to be casual, inexpensive accessories. Driven by Ernst Thomke, then CEO of ETA SA, Swatch started production in the early 1980's with a small team of watch engineers led by Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller. Conceived as a traditional plastic timekeeper, a publicity strategist employed by Thomke to introduce the idea to investors, Franz Sprecher sought to create a trendy line of watches. Swatch was initially developed to recover Swiss manufacturers ' market share lost after the quartz crisis, and the subsequent popularity of Japanese companies like Seiko and Citizen during the quartz crisis. In 1983 the company recruited Jacques Irniger who had previously worked to start the swatch as Colgate, Nestlé's marketing director. In 1997 the Swatch company opened about 60 stores around the world. On 1 March 1983 a first series of twelve Swatch models was launched in Zürich, Switzerland. The price originally ranged from CHF 39.90 to CHF 49.90, but decreased to CHF 50.00 in the fall of the same year. Sales goals were set in 1983 at one million timepieces and in the following year at 2.5 million. With an aggressive marketing strategy, and a relatively inexpensive price for a Swiss-made watch, it has gained immediate success in its home market. Through fully automating production and the number of parts from standard 91 or more to 51 bits, a Swatch became 80 percent easier to manufacture compared to conventional watches, without any loss of accuracy. During 1985, the Lebanese entrepreneur Nicolas G. Hayek and a consortium of Swiss investors took over the majority shareholding of Swatch in the newly formed business under the name Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie. He became executive board member, then executive director in 1986. He later changed the business name to Swatch Group. A combination of marketing and manufacturing experience has resurrected Switzerland to become an important player in the worldwide wristwatch industry. Composite parts were used in the watch cases, with a new process with manufacturing device for super sonic welding. The Irony series is composed of all metal-cased watches from Swatch. It includes all quartz-driven, and automatically controllable, mechanical watches. For ETA 2842 21J/23J the automatic has movement. This behavior is Swatch-only, which has the 2824-2 justification. Irony Chronograph was published August 2013. The First Skin was released on 6 October 1997, as a lighter version of the famous Swatch watch. It is extremely thin and 3.9 mm thick, hence the word Swatch Skin. Later in the Guinness Book of World Records the Swatch Skin became the thinnest plastic watch in the world. The Swatch Chronograph is the Swatch Body's chronograph feature, which adds two more buttons to the watch side. The Bijoux brand is Swatch's jewellery range that has launched in the new millennium. For Bijoux, it was collaborating with Swarovski on encrusting line watches. The Digital Touch show, released in 2011, derives its name from the technologies used on touch screens. The time is seen from a wireless LCD as is the case for many Swatch families. Similar versions, including the backlight for reading in the dark, are available in various show colours. In addition, these Swatch versions of the quartz movement wristwatches feature a near-field connectivity chip to enable contactless payment. In July 2017 Swatch introduced a second generation upgraded pay network for the Chinese industry. As with the Bellamy, many Chinese banks will use a cloud storage system to install and activate the Pay network in Swatch shops.

Stuart A. Weitzman is a model of American apparel, a businessman and Stuart Weitzman's company, a chain of shoes. The Beyoncé and Taylor Swift trousers are made by Weitzman. In 2014 weitzman paid a world premium of $9.48 million for the British Guiana 1c magenta stamp. In May 2017, Stuart Weitzman Holdings, LLC, appointed Giovanni Morelli as the artistic director and Weitzman resigned his position. In the late 1950s, Weitzman's father, Seymour Weitzman and his elder brother Warren founded a shoe factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts, named "Seymour Shoes." Weitzman began making shoes for his father's business in the early 1960s. In 1958 Weitzman graduated from George W. Hewlett High School, and in 1963 from Wharton College at the University of Pennsylvania. By the time Seymour had died in 1965, Warren and Stuart owned the company. They sold the business to a Spanish firm in 1971, and Weitzman continued to design clothing for the company. Back in 1994 he bought the firm, but continues to make his shoe designs in Spain. Weitzman is considered to produce one-of - a-kind, "million-dollar" heels for an Oscar nominee at the Academy Awards, including a pair of 464-diamond gold sandals worn at the 2002 ceremony by actress Laura Harring. For the 2007 Oscars, shoes were prepared and delivered to Diablo Cody, but eventually declined to wear them, saying she wasn't aware of the shoes and not interested in the promo attendant. Weitzman uses exclusive materials, such as cork, oak, lucite, 24 karat gold and wallpaper. Now his shoes are for sale in over 70 countries. The Weitzman-created eponymous company has changed hands many times. Jones Apparel Group purchased a management stake in the company in 2010, and purchased the remaining 45% of Weitzman's shares in 2012. Sycamore Partners LLC agreed, in January 2015, to sell the company to Coach, the luxury consulting agency, for $574 million. Weitzman continued on as the company's shoe designer as part of the deal. Jane Weitzman marries Jane Gershon. We have two brothers that includes Stuart and Susan. Weitzman, who had acquired stamps as a child at a Sotheby's auction in New York on 17 June 2014, secretly bought the world's most recognizable stamp, the British Guyana 1c magenta for $9,480,000, plus the buyer's fee, the highest amount ever paid for a post stamp. Weitzman has since named himself the distributor, and has issued the National Postal Museum stamp for display. Throughout the June of 2015 Weitzman has also proclaimed himself the sole owner of the rare plate block of four 1918 U.S. 24-cent Twisted Jennies, which is generally regarded as the world's most celebrated philatelic printing defect. Stuart has a spanish philanthropic plan and is a trustee board member of the Hispanojudía Foundation. On 26 February 2019, Amy Gutmann, chancellor of the University of Pennsylvania, announced that the University of Pennsylvania's School of Architecture is to be renamed Stuart Weitzman School of Architecture. The fashion industry has been an important part of his family since Seymour Weitzman and his father has also been a fashion-maker. He started a shoe-making factory in Ma in the 1950s The project is known as Seymour Socks. In the early 60's, when he was twenty, Stuart started designing footwear for his father's company. It bore history and heritage. In 2008 a very odd phenomenon happened which upsets the trend in some way. Stuart designed a pair of extremely fashionable shoes for Diablo Cody to wear at the Academy Award ceremony, named Vintage Rose. It was adorned with valuable 1 million dollar diamonds. However, controversy broke out because of some shoes attending the party Diablo wasn't wearing a pair of golden sandals out of her wardrobe. She then defended herself by claiming she did not know that for the reason she had to wear the Weitzman type.

Founded in 1755, Vacheron Constantin SA is a Swiss Luxury Watch and Clockmaker. Since 1996 it has been a division of the Swiss Richemont Company. Since its founding, Vacheron Constantin has become one of the oldest watchmakers in the world with a continuing history of watchmaking. It employs about 1,200 employees worldwide as of 2018, half of whom are based in the company's manufacturing plants in Geneva Canton and in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Renowned horloger Vacheron Constantin. Throughout the years, Vacheron Constantin's timepiece's influential customers and owners have included Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Pius XI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Marlon Brando, William Blake, John D. Rockefeller, Diana Princess of Wales, Harry S. Truman and the Wright brothers. The Vacheron Constantin pocket watch No. 402833 (1929), owned by King Fuad I of Egypt, ranks among the most costly watches ever sold at an auction, winning US$ 2.77 million at Geneva on April 3, 2005. The Reference 57260 pocket watch was launched by Vacheron Constantin in 2015, with 57 horological complications, officially designating the most complicated mechanical watch ever produced. Jean-Marc Vacheron, independent watchmaker, founded Vacheron Constantin in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1755. He was a close friend of leading Enlightenment thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire because of their common tastes for politics, science, and watch design. In 1770, Vacheron's company created the world's first horological issue, and nine years later he developed the first dials that were inserted into the engines. In 1785 Jean-Marc Vacheron, an relative of Abraham Vacheron, took over the family business. During this time the company managed to survive the French Revolution. The firm was made president of by Jacques-Barthélemy Vacheron, son of the founder, in 1810. He became the first person to sell the company into France and Italy. Following François Constantin's death in 1854, and Jacques-Barthélemy Vacheron's death in 1863, a series of successors took over the company. There was a time where the company was headed by two women. In 1862 Vacheron Constantin was establishing the discovery society for non-magnetic materials. George Ketterer died in 1969 as Vacheron & Constantin's director, succeeding his friend Jacques Ketterer. In 1970 the company officially changed its name to Vacheron Constantin. The quartz crisis had plagued Vacheron Constantin in the 1970s and 1980s. Since Jacques Ketterer died in 1987 Vacheron Constantin has changed hands. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister and avid watchmaker in Saudi Arabia, was the principal shareholder of the firm, and later absorbed Vacheron Constantin into his personal asset portfolio. In 1996 the Swiss Richemont Corporation purchased half of Vacheron Constantin's shareholdings. In 2004 Vacheron Constantin opened the new headquarters and logistics facility in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland. Bernard Tschumi designed the Geneva-based Vacheron Constantin headquarters building which was noted for its architectural significance. Richemont group appointed Juan Carlos Torres as Chief Executive of the company in October 2005. Currently the company is a founding member of the Swiss Watch Business Federation of FH and manufactures nearly 20,000 watches a year. Vacheron Constantin's business motto is ' To do best wherever possible, which is always possible. ' The expression first appeared in a letter to Jacques-Barthélémy from François Constantin and the letter of 5 July 1819. In December 2018, the World Wide Fund for Nature published an official report which includes environmental benefits for fifteen major watchmakers and jewellers in Switzerland. Along with three other businesses, including Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cartier, Vacheron Constantin was granted a respectable "Upper Middle" environmental ranking, indicating that the company has taken appropriate steps to reduce the effects of its industrial operations on the climate and on the countryside. In 1979, Vacheron Constantin had created one of the world's most costly wristwatches, Kallista. The initial price was $5 million but in 2016 the watch was valued at about $11 million. Kallista compared an emerald to 118 diamonds. It took some 6,000 hours for the watch masters to manufacture this item, and some 20 months for Jewelers to enrich the product.

Tory Burch LLC is an Independent Luxury House based in New York City, New York, USA. This House was founded by American artist Tory Burch in 2004. Pierre-Yves Roussel is the current Chief Executive. Tory Burch launched her apparel line "TRB by Tory Burch," best known as "Tory Burch" – opening it in February 2004 with a flagship store in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan. The results had been completely wiped up on day one. The next day, Burch's website has drawn eight million visitors since Oprah Winfrey introduced her company on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April 2005, naming Burch "the next big thing in luxury" Since its creation, the business has grown to include 250 Tory Burch shops worldwide. It covers New York, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Tokyo and Seoul flagships and seven-language ecommerce sites. The largest of its kind is the Shanghai Flagship, which opened in 2014. More than 3,000 department stores and chain stores worldwide, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's, as well as Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Galeries Lafayette, Lane Crawford, also sell a premium line of ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, watches, jewelry, home decor and beauty and make-up lines. In 2009 Burch sold a majority interest in her company to Mexican private equity group Tresalia Capital. In December 2012 Burch and her ex-husband added more ethnic partners in line with the settlement of a civil conflict. This deal is said to clear up a big barrier to an potential IPO that has been the subject of significant uncertainty in the financial and fashion market. Burch announced the firm had no plans to go public by 2015. Burch did her first runway fashion show in September 2011, and started to pose every season at New York Fashion Week. In Summer 2014, she launched a variety of accessories with the activity-tracking device Fitbit Flex, making her the first major appliance company to move into wellness applications. Her first and bestselling book, Tory Burch in Color, was published in autumn 2014, when Fossil watches were launched. In March 2015, Burch expanded its home collection to include a range of lettuce furnishings, produced in collaboration with Palm Beach designer and potter Dodie Thayer. In July 2015 Burch launched her very first Paris Boutique. Burch also launched Tory Sport, a new luxury athletic wear brand, on a dedicated website in September 2015, and in a pop-up shop on Elizabeth Road in Manhattan, the room where she opened her name's first boutique in 2004. A stand-alone store on New York's Fifth Avenue opened in 2016, as did the East Hampton and Dallas boutiques. Tory Sport has outlets in several U.S. cities as of late 2017 and an in-store division of the Tory Burch group in Hong Kong. The collection features designs include fitness, gymnastics, basketball, golf, sailing, and accessories for pre- and post-workout. Both the Tory Burch line and the Tory Burch Sport line support the Tory Burch Foundation, which empowers women entrepreneurs by offering access to resources for capital, business awareness and networking. Burch's style was characterized as preppy-boho and preppy-bohemian elegance, and was connected on the T-logo to her medallion. Renowned for being easy to wear and versatile, Tory Burch models are popular with women of all ages and Gossip Girl Television show viewers and followers where they have also been featured. Waiting lists for buying Tory Burch fashions, known for color and imagery, and paying tribute to the 1960s and 1970s, were introduced during 2007. Burch named her line of Reva ballerina flats after her mother. In August 2019, the company announced it has signed a long-term agreement with Shiseido to develop, distribute and supply Tory Burch beauty products, starting in January 2020.

Ted Baker plc is a UK luxury clothing retailer. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. In March 1988, Founder Ray Kelvin opened his first store in Glasgow, opening additional stores in Manchester, and Nottingham. In 1990, Ted Baker opened a Covent Garden shop, and Kelvin bought the company directly from Goldberg and Sons part-owners. In 1995 a new line, Ted Baker Woman, was launched. The company bought 58.25 million £ from London headquarters in the summer of 2017. Ted Baker has several stand-alone stores in the UK. Other retailers (which it calls Ted Baker Trustees) also sell the Ted Baker range, particularly in John Lewis Partnership stores and Fraser's House. Ted Baker also has stores at the Bicester Village Retail Outlet, the Swindon Designer Outlet, the Portsmouth Gunwharf Quays and the Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet. All Selfridges & Co stores retain a discount from Ted Baker; London, Birmingham, Manchester and Trafford Centre. Ted Baker has shops and branches in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East. It opened a store at Fifth Avenue, New York City, in August 2012. As of 2018, Ted Baker has 490 stores and concessions worldwide: 192 in the UK, 98 in Europe, 111 in the USA and Canada, 80 in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and 9 in Australia. Ted Baker has expanded its high street presence through its wholesale business which includes Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Norway, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and the British Isles. Wholesale operations started in 1994 through careful selection of retail stores. In response to an online petition initiated by a former employee claiming that Ray Kelvin, who was then the company's chief executive, had improperly embraced staff, on December 7, 2018 it was revealed that Kelvin was taking voluntary leave of absence from the company while reviewing the claims, and that Lindsay Page will act as chief executive. On 4 March 2019 it was revealed that Kelvin had resigned, and will leave the company immediately. Weak trading figures forced Page and Executive Chairman David Bernstein to leave their jobs and Rachel Osborne was appointed Acting CEO in December 2019. In 2007 Kelvin received an honorary doctorate from Bath University in business administration. In the 2011 New Year Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for contributions to the fashion industry. Raymond Stuart Kelvin CBE is the founder of Ted Baker, a retail clothing company and former chief executive. He started working at his uncle's menswear shop in Enfield at the age of eleven and in 1988, when he opened a shop specialising in men's shirts in Glasgow, he formed the business Ted Baker. Thanks to an unconfirmed lack of help from the HR department of Ted Baker, in 2018 a dissatisfied employee created a petition that received 2,000 signatures to put an end to his hugs and reportedly abusive interactions with workers. On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Kelvin will take voluntary leave of absence from the company. Following an investigation by an independent internal committee on 4 March 2019 it was announced that Kelvin had resigned and would leave Ted Baker immediately. Jewish-born Kelvin grew up and was educated at JFS in Edmonton, north London. Six years before separating in 1999 and divorcing in 2000 Kelvin dated the actress Georgia Slowe. They have 2 Brothers. In March 2012 Kelvin married his second wife, Clare, with whom he has a daughter. In his spare time, among many other things beside his work every day, he enjoys fly-fishing with family and friends.

Tissot SA is a French Luxury Watchmaker. The business was founded in Le Locle, Switzerland, in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his friend Charles-Émile Tissot. Since 1983 Tissot SA has been a part of Swiss Swatch Company. Tissot is not affiliated with other Swiss watchmaking firm, Mathey-Tissot. Tissot was founded in 1853 in Le Locle, a Swiss town in the Jura Mountains area of Neuchâtel, by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot. Swatch Group officially classifies Tissot watches as "Mid-Range" products. Tissot is an official timekeeper for the world championships in sailing, motorcycling, fencing and ice hockey, and so on. Tissot was also a major investor in Formula One with the teams Mclaren, Renault and Sauber. Handheld stopwatches were adequate to include official timings for early occurrences. Today, Tissot is focused on developing systems for different athletic bodies to produce ever more precise timings for particular events. For example, sensors are mounted on the bikes and track in competitive cycling, and then machine controlled to provide track timing and performance data. Tissot's unveiled a daring new commercial across the world, ' Tissot, the time is now. ' The theme at the heart of the advertisement highlights the watch over one's life's milestones. A fresh tagline, fresh graphics and successful communication all help to improve Tissot's position on the market. Tissot's motto is "Tradition Innovators." Tissot launched the first mass-produced pocket watch in 1853, as well as the first two time zones pocket watch and the first anti-magnetic watch in 1929–30. The Tissot company was also the first to manufacture titanium, quartz, pearl and wood watches and in 1999 Tissot introduced the first "T-Touch" tactile watch; watches incorporating this technology include touch-sensitive sapphire crystals to track different functions such as compass, barometer, altimeter and thermometer. The World Wide Fund for Nature released an official report in December 2018, promising environmental ratings for 15 major watch manufacturers and jewellers in Switzerland. Tissot and seven other producers including Omega Rolex and Longines have received the lowest environmental rating as "Latecomers / Non-transparent," suggesting that the organisation has taken very few measures to resolve the environmental and climate change effects of its production operations. The lack of transparency in agricultural processes and the production of important raw materials like gold, which is a big cause of environmental issues like waste, soil degradation and deforestation, are troubling. The situation in developing countries like China, which are top gold producers, is especially poor Then Russia then South Africa. It is estimated that the watch and jewellery industry uses more than 50% of the world's annual gold production, but most watch companies are reluctant or unable to explain where their raw materials come from and whether products producers use environmentally friendly sourcing techniques. Tissot has been the official timekeeper of a variety of international sports for many years, including MotoGP, ice hockey, cycling, the International Basketball Union Fencing World Championships and the Women's National Basketball Association. As the official timekeeper promises Tissot is duty-bound to successfully scheduled each of these events. They has sponsored the Swiss national team, the Chinese Basketball Association and other basketball based sports, leagues, and organisations. Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in 1858 and succeeded in selling their savonnette pocket watches to the Russian Empire. Tissot, merged in 1930 with Omega and collectors are searching for Tissot-Omega watches from that time. Tissot was used in downhill skiing in Switzerland in 1938, and in Davis Cup in 1957. Tissot's first appointment as an official timekeeper was in Villars-sur-Ollon in 1938, near the company's home town in the Jura mountains, where a number of ski races were scheduled. Since 1983 Tissot has been a division of the Swiss Swatch Group, the biggest watch producer and dealer in the world. After leaving Swatch, Tissot was still headquartered in Le Locle, Switzerland, and was distributed internationally in 160 countries.

The headquarters of European e-commerce group Zalando SE are in Berlin, Germany. The business follows a network model that offers fashion and lifestyle items to its consumers in 17 European markets. In Germany Zalando was founded in 2008. The Swedish company Kinnevik is Zalando's biggest stakeholder, with a 32 per cent share. Zalando was founded in 2008 by Rocket Web, Robert Gentz and David Schneider, initially under the name Ifansho. Zalando was originally inspired by US online retailer Zappos.com and focused on footwear sales. In 2012, Zalando began operating outside of Germany offering distribution to Austria. In 2010 the company started operations in the Netherlands and France and added apparel to their portfolio. In 2011 it opened online shopping sites in UK, Italy and Switzerland. The following year Zalando spread to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Spain and Poland. Since 2013 Zalando has turned the use of examples by East Tech companies, particularly China, into a digital platform in Europe. Emulating Chinese companies, Zalando set out to become a digital shopping centre that would also allow fashion houses and retailers to make transactions through the Partner Program but with little Zalando feedback. In 2014 Zalando was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Since 22 June 2015 Zalando has been a member of MDAX. In 2015 Zalando began working with Topshop and started selling items online. Ads featuring the model Cara Delevingne is broadcasted in Germany, Switzerland and France. Zalando purchased the fashion trade fair "Bread & Butter" in June 2015, with the goal of opening the globally important event as a "concept festival" to a broader audience. Zalando's first edition of "Bread&Butter" was held in 2016, drawing 20,000 guests to the Berlin Arena. In 2018, Zalando launched Beauty in Germany, Poland and Austria and opened a beauty concept store in Berlin offering a variety of beauty products that constantly evolve. Zalando has introduced the beauty and health products of men to its list, and launched the loyalty programme "Zalando Plus" for customers in Germany. In February 2018 Zalando expanded her relationship with physical stores in Germany. In June 2018, Zalando expanded his operations toward Ireland and the Czech Republic. Through the new distribution facilities of Zalando the markets are served. In November 2018 Zalando revealed that due to a strategic change "Bread&&Butter" would be discontinued. Zalando opened a new logistics facility in Brunna, Sweden in early 2019 and handed over its first own logistics facility to Fiege Logistics in Brieselang, Germany. Zalando operates a customer-centered retail strategy that aims to be "the starting point for fashion" in Europe. It currently offers more than 300,000 products from around 2,000 different brands in fashion and lifestyle. The main operations of Zalando are carried out in Germany, with centralised management headquarters in their Berlin headquarters. The business employs more than 6,000 workers in Berlin and more than 15,000 in total. More than 2,000 staff are dedicated to Technology at Zalando's Tech Centers in Munich, Dublin and Helsinki, software centres in Erfurt and Mönchengladbach, and Ad Tech Lab in Zalando, Hamburg. Around 7,000 employees are working at eight Zalando distribution locations. The business also operates an off-price app, Zalando Lounge, as well as several discount stores in Germany. The company operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg and the UK. According to statements by the German Federal Economic Ministry, between 2007 and 2012, the German newspaper Bild reported that Zalando received approximately € 3.3 million in regional growth subsidies. Zalando has applied for grants for the 2013 financial year. The Deutsche Mittelstandsnachrichten claimed that the Samwer brothers ' business model is predicated on the use of foreign capital and cheap labour to rapidly grow a product, selling it as soon as possible. In November 2015, the Center for Protection against Unfair Competition in Germany filed a lawsuit alleging that Zalando had misled consumers about the price of these products, implying that they had to move quickly to p

Steven Madden, Inc. is a publicly traded company based in Long Island City, New York. The business designs and markets shoes and fashion accessories for women, men and children and was founded by Steve Madden, the eponymous designer and entrepreneur. Amongst the brands are Steve Madden, Steven by Steve Madden, Madden Boy, MADDEN, Steven Freebird by Steven, Stevies, Betsey Johnson, Betseyville, Report Signature, News, Big Buddha, Wild Pair, Cejon, Jocelyn and Crazy Love. According to the company website, Steve Madden started the business with $1,100 in 1990, by selling shoes from the trunk of his car. Steven Madden, Inc. was incorporated on July 9, 1990 in New York and resettled in Delaware in November 1998. The Company reported $1.4 billion in net sales for 2015. There are about 120 Steve Madden stores across the U.S., and 250 in over 65 countries. Steve Madden is both an American fashion designer and businessman. He is best known for being the founder and former CEO of a publicly traded firm, Steve Madden, Ltd. Madden was raised as the son of a Jewish mother, and an Irish Catholic father in Far Rockaway, Queens. He grew up in neighbouring Lawrence, and graduated from Nassau County, New York's main high school. After high school Madden studied at the University of Miami for two years, before transferring to Long Island. He began the company as the youngest of three children with $1,100 in 1990, by selling shoes out of the trunk of his car. Madden's financial dealings were closely associated with Long Island's "pump and dump" brokerage house, Stratton Oakmont, co-founded by Madden's childhood friend Danny Porush, who first lent him money to expand his young business, and then signed up for his initial public offering. In June 2000 a class action lawsuit was filed against Madden for intentionally making false and misleading statements during the Class Period. In 2004 a settlement of $9million was reached. The SEC filed charges in New York State Federal Court against Madden in 2001, alleging violations of the Constitution. Since the infringements were not illegal in nature, the SEC sought to recover $1,637,000 in a combination of taxable wages, interest, and civil penalties. In 2002 Madden was charged with bribery in the theft of money, cash and shares. He was sentenced to 41 months in gaol, and made Steven Madden, Ltd., resign as CEO and the board of directors. Immediately after resigning as CEO, Madden established himself with Steven Madden, Ltd. as a design consultant, a position that he received $700,000 for even while in gaol. Madden spent time at the Federal Prison Camp Eglin Air Force Base, and then at the Coleman Federal Correctional Center in Ocala, Florida. Madden was released from gaol in April 2005. He later visited a New York City halfway house. Joel Winograd, Madden's attorney, said Madden stayed 60 days at the home. After his release from a halfway house he had been confined to home detention for a while. After Madden was released from prison in 2005, the company has quickly rebounded, rising revenues by nearly $100 million in 2006 to $475.1 million in 2006. That same year Steven Madden, Ltd. was named ' Company of the Year ' for the second time at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. With Madden now serving as the founder and executive chairman, the company continues to achieve year-over-year revenue growth of $1.65 billion for FY2018. Madden has contributed to The Doe Trust, an agency committed to solving homelessness problems, neglect and recurrence of criminal matters. Steve Madden, based on the same name Jordan Belfort autobiography, is featured in the Martin Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Visiting Stratton Oakmont is seen in the film Madden, where Belfort gives the brokers a rousing pep talk about moving Madden's stock. After watching the film, Madden criticised his portrayal as "too nerdy." Following his release from gaol in 2005, Madden married his former operations director Wendy Ballew. The couple have three children, twins being Jack and Stevie Madden, and Goldie Ryan being Madden. The couple split in 2015.

Urban Outfitters, Inc. has headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa and is a multinational premium retail company. This operates in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and the UAE. The business Urban Outfitters provides young people with a variety of casual clothes, footwear, make-up and fitness items, accessories, active-wear and appliances and housewares for women and men, as well as music, mainly vinyl albums and cassettes. Most of the merchandise is imported and distributed through the wholesale division of the company, under many private labels. The company was founded in 1970 by Richard Hayne, Judy Wicks, and Scott Belair as Free People retail store as a project for an entrepreneurship programme at the University of Pennsylvania. This was renamed in 1976, and sold as Metropolitan Outfitters. Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) runs various URBN secure retail stores including Anthropologie, Free Men, Landscape, BHLDN and The Vetri Party. Urban Outfitters is a fashion focused retailer specialised in selling shoes, lifestyle accessories, and apartment pieces. This specifically concerns teens and young adults participating in hipster subculture and trendy styles. In 2007, Urban Outfitters received the National Heritage Honor Award for the Campus of the Urban Outfitters Corporate Office built on Philadelphia's Naval Shipyard from the National Trust for Historical Heritage. Urban Outfitters received the Global Award for Creativity 2007 from the Urban Land Institute for the same project. In March 2008, the company visited the Philadelphia Flower Show to promote the new Terrain brand, and won the Alfred M. Campbell Trophy, the Earth Trophy, People's Choice Award and Best in Series. On November 27, 2009, the organisation gained the attention of the Swedish press for denying collective bargaining privileges at its Stockholm store by leaving all 38 workers unemployed and re-hiring them through the employment agency Academic Service. Ombudsman Jimmy Ekman called for more restrictive regulations in relation to the move to prevent more businesses in this direction that breach collective bargaining rights. In 2011, it decided to sell exclusive models of Polaroid ONE600 instant cameras and Type 779 instant cinema, in partnership with the Austrian billionaire Florian Kaps, who bought the rights to produce 700 versions of the discontinued brand. In January 2013, it hired the former Republican Sen. Spencer Abraham's lobbying company Abraham & Roetzel to lobby in Washington, D.C. On top of it on industrial market strategy. In Q4 2015, the company announced plans to buy the Philadelphia Vetri Family restaurant business. The buy represents the retailer's strategy shift as the company is facing a slowdown in the same store sales and foot traffic. It covers the Amis Trattoria, Bar Amis, and Pizzeria Vetri restaurants. Philadelphia has two branches in Pizzeria Vetri, with other locations in King of Prussia, PA and Washington DC. The company gained attention in 2019 by advertising the selling of recycled VHS tapes for $40. For some of its products, brands from Urban Outfitters have also been the subject of various demonstrations and attacks, including from national, legal and cultural rights organisations including a NAACP state affiliate, the Anti-Defamation League and the Navajo Nation. Established in 1970 in a small street space across the street from the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Outfitters opened as a boutique retail destination and cultural centre for college-age artists. In a few short years, the first UO had developed into a small convenience store with an increased variety of merchandise and added services, offering a wider community atmosphere with restaurants, concerts, and hang out spots. Today, Urban Outfitters has more than 200 stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe offering experiential shopping offers that include a tailor-made range of women's, men's, apparel and home items with an eye for creativity and cultural sensitivity in mind. The idea of Urban Outfitters as a place for likeminded creative people and the creation of green spaces is progressing today. We respect our clients ' interests and values, represent society at all levels and encourage social media interaction, events, community involvement and entrepreneurial opportunities.