Charleston Fashion Week at Tanger Outlets

By Michele Sobel - ABCNEWS4


CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) – Break out your best dress and high heels. Charleston Fashion Week is almost here! Style Director for Charleston Fashion week Ayoka Lucas says this year's event is going to be bigger and better than years past.

"This year you can expect literally a fashion village. There's going to be a main runway tent a style lounge tent and for the first time we're having a pop up shop which will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. presented by Tanger Outlets," Lucas said.

During the day, the festival will feature special guests, lectures and book signings.

The pop-up shop will feature every day sales.

"It's just a time during the day when people can enjoy Charleston Fashion and maybe buy their outfit for that night," Lucas said.

For the first time this year, seating in the fashion tents will be reserved.

If you want the best view, you'll want to purchase a Fashion Insider Front Row Package which includes luxurious seating, a free drink, and admission to the Style Lounge for the pre-party, entertainment and shopping. Those tickets start at $95 during the week.

Regular tickets for runway shows start at $45 during the week. The finale runway show is on Saturday followed by a Spring Bridal show on Sunday.

The event runs March 20-24.

Meet Vanessa Lachey at Tanger Outlets

Company Release - 03/16/2012 16:24


MEDIA ADVISORY, March 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

WHAT:
	Tanger Outlets Charleston Spring Fashion Week March 19-24 touts fun, fashion tips, special giveaways and more!
	Designer Sale
		Upon arrival, visit Shopper Services for your FREE Designer Sale Shopping Guide and discover all of the ways to look fabulous for less at Tanger.
	Meet Vanessa Lachey
		Meet Tanger's celebrity stylist on the Fashion Week Runway in front of the Banana Republic Factory Store. Vanessa will share the latest tips and trends for Spring as the latest fashions from America's favorite brands are showcased.
		Vanessa has appeared on MTV Networks, WB, UPN, Entertainment Tonight, ABC, CBS, NBC, Lionsgate films in "Disaster Movie" and Century Fox Films in "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer." Most recently, she has guest starred on "Hawaii Five O" and "30 Rock, and is currently the co-host of the popular ABC series "Wipeout."
		Shoppers could win one of the looks that walk the Fashion Week Runway! Register to win directly in front of Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th.
		Vanessa may just bring her handsome husband Nick Lachey? Get the scoop on Saturday, March 24 from 1pm – 3pm!
WHEN:
	Designer Sale	Saturday, March 24            1pm – 6pm
	Meet Vanessa Lachey	Saturday, March 24            1pm – 3:30pm
		Fashion Show                     1:30pm

Job Fair at Merrimack Premium Outlets

By Carolyn Dube - Merrimack Patch

 A job fair will be held March 30, from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., at Nashua Community College, 505 Amherst St., in anticipation of the Merrimack Premium Outlets.

The outlet mall, under construction in Merrimack, will be located just off Exit 10 of the F.E. Everett Turnpike, is scheduled to hold its grand opening June 14-17.

According to promotional material for the project, the shopping center is projected to create 1,000 jobs at a cross-section of retail and food service stores.

Back in January, we learned of 54 of the approximately 100 stores set to come to the open air shopping center, and even more have been added to the Premium Outlets website.

According to a project update sent out by the company earlier this week, the project remains on target for its opening date and 98 percent of the buildings have been leased.

The mall will be home to 100 designer and brand-name outlets that will fill 410,000 square feet of lease-able space. The center will also house a food court and is approved for four restaurants and a 200-room hotel in later phases of the project.

British Designers Collection pop-up at Chic Outlet Shopping Villages

SOURCE: fashionunited.co.uk

Bicester Village, one of the nine Chic Outlet Shopping Villages by Value Retail, will see the return of the annual British Designers Collection from March 21. Now in its third year, the pop-up boutique concept store is an exclusive collaboration with Bicester Village and the British Fashion Council, offering emerging British talent the opportunity to showcase their collections in a unique setting.

Previously just dedicated to womenswear designers, new this year will be a dedicated menswear pop-up boutique, which will follow the women’s boutique, from May 16 for six weeks. The menswear pop-up will feature collections from designers including YMC, Oliver Spencer, Margaret Howell, James Long, Sunspel, Tim Little, Heritage Research, Grenson, Time Little, b Store and Richard James.

The womenswear pop-up shop will include designers such as Marios Schwab, Jonathan Saunders, Markus Lupfer, Lulu Kennedy, Peter Pilotto, Holly Fulton, Bella Freud, James Long, Goat, Hermione de Paula, Jean Pierre Braganza, Emma Cook, Nicholas Kirkwood, Preen and Osman, as well as accessories from Pauric Sweeney, Lily and Lionel, Mawi and Erickson Beamon.

Desirée Bollier, Chief Executive of Value Retail Management Ltd said: “In our ongoing commitment to British fashion design we are delighted to welcome back the British Designers’ Collective to Bicester Village this spring. The exclusive pop-up boutique will showcase some of the very best in British rising talent along with a great mix of established British womenswear and menswear collections.”

Harold Tillman, chairman of the BFC, added: “The British Fashion Council are delighted to be continuing their collaboration with Bicester Village on the ‘British Designers Collective’ boutique. This is a unique platform for London Fashion Week designers to showcase their designs to new audiences. This year’s dedicated menswear phase, adds an extra dimension to the boldly British boutique and validates the excitement surrounding a year that celebrates all that is British.”

Simon Property Group Completes Acquisition of 28.7% Interest in Klepierre

Simon Property Group Completes Acquisition of 28.7% Interest in Klepierre and Closings of Public Offerings of Common Stock and Senior Notes

INDIANAPOLIS, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) ("SPG") announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of a 28.7% equity stake (54.43 million shares) in Klepierre (Euronext Paris: LI) from BNP Paribas for euro 28.00 per share, or a total transaction value of approximately $2.0 billion (euro 1.5 billion). 

David Simon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SPG, was appointed to the position of Chairman of Klepierre's nine member Supervisory Board.  Two additional SPG representatives, Steven Fivel and Francois Kayat, were appointed as members of Klepierre's Board as well.

SPG's previously announced acquisition of joint venture partner Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C.'s stake in 26 assets of The Mills Limited Partnership is expected to close next week.

SPG also announced that it and its majority-owned operating partnership subsidiary, Simon Property Group, L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"), have closed the equity and debt offerings announced last week.  The Company sold a total of 9,137,500 shares, including shares issued in connection with the underwriters' partial exercise of an overallotment option.  The shares were issued at a price of $137.00 per share and the equity offering closed today.  The Operating Partnership completed its offering of three new series of senior unsecured notes in the aggregate principal amount of $1.75 billion yesterday.  The weighted average coupon of the notes is 3.39% and the weighted average term is 14.7 years.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the two offerings to fund (or repay borrowings used prior to the closing of the offerings to fund) the Klepierre and Mills transactions and for corporate and partnership purposes.

Outlet Shopping Gal says nautical never goes out of style

SOURCE: By: Kimberly Kapilovic - ABC15.COM

Chic Outlets Present ‘Backstage’ an Exhibition by Photographer Daniel Beres

SOURCE: ETBMICE.COM

La Vallée Village (Paris), one of the nine Chic Outlet Shopping® Villages by Value Retail, is launching a new exhibition by fashion photographer Daniel Beres. 

‘Backstage’, is a collection of photographs taken between 2008 and 2012 behind the scenes of fashion shows in Paris; the exhibition offers an exclusive look beyond traditional fashion photography.

 During the endless wait at the start of the runway shows during Paris Fashion Week, Daniel Beres took a series of photographs, which will be exhibited for the first time at Espace La Vallée, the contemporary art gallery at La Vallée Village, from 10 March to 10 June 2012.

The ‘Backstage’ exhibition will premiere ten photographs that go behind the scenes of the catwalks and capture images far from the glossy pages that captivate the world, and accessing another reality, without artifice.

If a runway photo can be considered an exercise of visual recording, this series, titled ‘Backstage’ by Beres himself is conversely constructed around the premise of photography as a projection of the subconscious.

Daniel Beres says, “Images exist before their physical materialisation; it’s not about describing situations but bringing into existence a universe by projecting it against reality through a camera lens.
The images that are born of this process produce a fragile counterpoint to the images produced and constructed on the runway. Far from wishing to condemn, the idea is to reflect on the representation in images, or the different ways that we can capture a situation.”

La Vallée Village’s mission, beyond offering a leading luxury shopping destination in France, is to use its art gallery to give a voice to those who reveal and intrigue, by showing the world, and fashion in particular, in a new and fascinating light.