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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Dolce & Gabbana-Future











Living la Vita Dolce & Gabbana
By Marion Hume Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005
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The only person with a financial background in the core corporate lineup is the one without the family name. Cristiana Ruella rarely invites media scrutiny, even though she looks like an Italian Demi Moore. An economist by training, she was working as a commerciale (an accountant-lawyer) when she met the pair she still calls “Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana” to discuss their finances.
Despite Ruella's having little interest in fashion when she was asked to join the burgeoning business in 1991, she took a leap of faith, “not because of zebra and leopard prints,” she laughs, referring to the prints that reappear in almost all their interiors and their work spaces, “but because of the possibility of the numbers.”
THERE HAVE BEEN big decisions of late, born of the need to nail down a fast-growing corporate structure for the next 20 years or more. In business terms, the problem inherent in designer brands is, of course, the designers themselves and how the brands they have founded might continue in their absence. Dolce & Gabbana's glossy annual report addresses that. “Our plans for the future?” the designers are quoted as asking. “To carry on working with the same commitment and determination so that our brand continues to grow and expand and, perhaps, in the very distant future, to go on without us. In the early years, our dream was … to keep the brand going from one season to the next … The goal has changed: we want our brand to live forever.”
With their recent numbers, chances are very good that it will. Dolce & Gabbana leather-accessories and footwear sales rose 35% from March 2004 to March 2005, for example. “I'm surprised people are so surprised,” Ruella says. “To me [the impressive year-on-year rises] are quite normal. We grew in our own way. Perhaps the hard part, the fashion, we already did, and now we have to exploit the easier part. What is sure, we prefer to follow our own street.”
That “street”—one not without risk—has led to the expansion of wholly owned factories (now completed) and the decision to recall all licenses (except those of fragrance, opticals and watches), including one for the highly lucrative D&G line, which currently generates more than $536 million and will be produced in-house starting in 2007.
The big talk in fashion now is the Chi nese market, and here, too, Dolce & Gabbana is doing things its way—without a local partner and with vast shops in the tourist destination of Hangzhou as well as in Beijing and Shanghai.
“We feel we can't leave such a market in other hands,” says Ruella. In any case, she adds, the Italians and the Chinese are made to do business together. “Both can have a dinner and speak about everything else without losing for a second why we are there.”
Ruella doesn't see success in terms of dreams. To this pragmatist, the reasons for success are straightforward. “The secret of this company is no secret,” she says. “Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana provide clothes for lots of women to wear. Yes, we must manage a big company with prudence, but we never speak about ‘if we do this, we will find more customers.’ Customers want to find what Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana design.”Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1135652-3,00.html#ixzz0YeUjGg9M




















Dolce & Gabbana will live on forever I hope. It is a leading luxury brand and that does not seem to be changing any time soon. I support their common goal to carry on the brand and have it continue to expand and grow for the better. I can not wait to see what their future holds!

BKE-Future


BKE will continue to grow as a top-notch, popularly selling brand, especially for Denim. We will continue to be able to get all of our greatest denim needs, and be catered to for them to fit us better than ever. I think they have even higher expectations for the future because of their new edition of William Rast to their collection. Their prices for these jeans are a bit lower than others that have already carried the brand, therefore they will probably have a good opportunity at increased sales because of this.

Dolce & Gabbana-Environment


Dolce & Gabbana have created a few designs that have used organic materials in order to help the environment. However, they do not seem to be extremely active in this movement. They are not against it, yet they do not do very much to contribute. They actually had a show a few years back that was all about animal print and snake skin. In order to help this cause, they could donate to environmental charities with the loads of money they make from their designs, having clothing drives to recycle the clothes or give them to people in need, and most of all take the focus of animal print and skin designs.


Here is a pic from the show(all leather)

BKE-Go Green


That I know of, BKE does not have any ties with environmental impact or the Go-Green movement regarding their apparel. The ideas that I would recommend would be 1) to implement the use of organic materials to make some of their clothing, 2) to donate a small percentage of sales to an environmental friendly organization, and 3) to set up donation bins or other ways to recycle clothing.

Dolce & Gabbana-Social


Dolce & Gabbana had an advertisement that the public took as a "gang rape" scandal. The following article explains about the ad and what happened with it.



Media discourse has it wrong on sexual violence: the Richmond gang rape
An earlier version of this article was previously posted at AAUW’s blog, Dialog.

This Dolce & Gabbana ad (2007) glamorizes gang rape
Most people have heard about the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl a couple weeks ago, along with many shocking and horrific aspects of the event. However, some reported details may have done more harm than good in increasing awareness about sexual assault.
According to the Associated Press, “as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it” and, in addition to the two suspects in custody, “as many as five other men attacked the girl over a two-hour period.”
The article goes on to be a regular crime reporting article, then it hits you like a ton of bricks:
Police said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The victim had drank a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said.
WHAM! She was drinking—underage nonetheless—so there’s an implication that the attack was her fault. No, it’s not an outright statement of blame, but an implication. This sort of coverage may lead people to believe that she “had it coming” because she participated in this “risky” behavior.
This language and discourse is how the media upholds the status quo regarding sex crimes. We, as a society, place blame on those taking part in what is perceived as risky or promiscuous behavior. In this case, that behavior was consuming alcohol.
Any time a survivor’s wardrobe, substance use, or even sexual history is mentioned in the article, you may have a case of victim-blaming on your hands, whether it was intentional or not. Intent does not dictate how the report will be interpreted by the general public and what conclusions they will draw from it.
Rape is never okay. It doesn’t matter how much she had to drink because that didn’t directly contribute to the personal motivations of the perpetrators to participate in a gang rape for over two hours. The alcohol she drank wasn’t responsible for the 10 to 20 bystanders who didn’t call the cops.

BKE-Social


There are not really any social issues regarding the Buckle. I would hope that if there were issues, regarding working conditions or impact on the environment that Buckle would be a noble company. I want to believe that they treat their workers fairly, that they appreciate them, give credit where credit is due, and reward and acknowledge their positive efforts. As far as the environment goes, i think everyone should do their part to help.

Dolce & gabbana Finances


There is a tremendous amount of information on the below sight regarding financial information not only of Dolce & Gabbana, but also of those who can afford to shop there, and of their main competitors. It cery interesting to see. Give it a look!


Buckle Finances


Select this link to view financial information for The Buckle. It includes investor information, income statements, stocks, balance sheets, etc. Check it out!


Dolce & Gabbana Structure




Dolce & Gabbana is a privately held brand established in 1985 in Milan, but the two key designers Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana. This company has grown and become a very huge, high class, upscale, fashion icon brand! The headquarters is currently located in Milan, and consists of two buildings.


Alfonso Dolce -Chief Executive Officer


Stefano Gabbana-Co-founder


Domenico Dolce -Co-Founder


Cristiana Ruella-Chief Operating officer


Giacomo Santucci-Head of Sales and Licensing and Head of Business Development

Buckle Structure


The Buckle first began in 1948 in the town of Kearney, Nebraska, which is where the headquarters is still located today.There are currently over 400 Buckle stores in 41 states. Dan Hirschfeld has been with the company since 1965 and leads the company as Chairman of the Board. Dennis Nelson is the President and Chief Executive Officer. Executive Vice President, Jim Shada, and Kari Smith, Vice-President of Sales.