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    Calvin Klein Friends & Family

    Calvin Klein is known for having a great end-of-season sale. However, shopping in-season is all the more attractive AND affordable during a friends and family event. From Thursday to Sunday Calving Klein is offering us 30% off everything in the store, including sale items.

    Getting 30% off is nice and all but we all know that real friends deserve at least a 70% discount, right?

    Contact: Cathrine  (212) 292-9000

    DVF Friends and Family

    From: Jeff
    Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:00 PM
    To: DVF Global Email Group
    Subject: DVF Friends & Family

    DVF FRIENDS & FAMILY SALE
    30% off for 4 days only*
    October 23rd thru 26th
    RSVP at vipfriends@dvf.com
    This exclusive offer available at DVF stores & DVF.COM
    Print this invitation and bring it to the store to receive the VIP sale price
    Or enter code VIPFRIENDS at checkout.

    Thanks Roon.

    Prada Sample Sale Update

    Racked.com has the skinny on what’s going on at the Prada sale, It appears as if the standard discount is 50% off. Who needs to wait in a two hour line to buy last season’s clothing when they were 45% off in the boutique. Well, not me!

    One Mad-Spy reader braved the sale and even talked her way past the bouncers. (Snaps for getting past the line. We love a bit of civil disobedience.) Here’s what she said:

    Went to the Prada sale today around 4:45pm. I was told by two doormen that they were not letting anyone else in for the day because it was “at capacity”. After telling the two doormen that I was a regular Prada customer at the retail level, I was allowed in. It was in no way crowded (I guess it was wishful thinking). There aren’t any handbags or small leather goods being sold at this sale. What little selection there was in shoes was horrible – leftover summer styles from prior seasons. Most of the other merchandise was laying on the floor instead of on hangers. I found this sale to be a HUGE disappointment. I always purchased great merchandise in prior years at the Fuller Building. I guess all good things come to an end.

    Thanks for the update. Keep sending them in!

    The YSL Totem

    If I were a man I would be Danny Daily. He understands fashion and isn’t afraid to be critical. Danny broke news about the YSL’s newest bag, the Totem and also questioned the brand’s future as a fashion house.

    Danny asserts, “YSL is quickly becoming the next Louis Vuitton, a house with less of a focus on articulate clothing and rather on princely bags.”

    Yes YSL, what happened to the fashion? How many more collections of print wrap dresses can we expect? The wide belt, from 2004 was the last big idea. Will there be any more? Please, we want to love you but you’re not giving us much to love.

    New Economy: Outlet Centers

    Just a decade ago the stores that line Bond Street, Madison Avenue and Via Montenapoleone, would have rather burned their inventory rather than sell it through discount centers. Today the story is totally different. Big brands like Chanel and Dior entered the outlet game even before the economy started to rot. Robb Young, reports about the ideological u-turn, in an amazing article in the International Herald Tribune.

    Economy gives new allure to Europe’s outlet centers

    Trance, you there? Bring the car around– Woodbury Commons is calling!

    Gucci Group Watch Sale

    I’ve never known someone to lust after a Gucci watch. In the case we’ve never met I thought I would pass along the following information about the Gucci watch group’s friends and family event to be held Friday from 9:00am until 8:00pm at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel in East Rutherford, NJ. Prices are 60% to 90% off retail. Call me if they decied to add gold jewelry to the sale!

    Thank you Laura!

    Another Sakes EGC

    Don’t fret if you can’t make it to Saks for Friends and Family. Usually, right afterwards they host a sale with even deeper discounts than F&F. This season’s post-friends and family sale will have the further incentive of an electronic gift card.

    The ECG will be on Thursday, Oct 23rd. Gift card levels are as follows:
    $250 to $499= $25 gift card
    $500 to $999= $50 gift card
    $1000 to $1999= $100 gift card
    $2000 to $2999= $300 gift card
    $3000 or more= $450 gift card

    Contact: Peter Tay
    T: 212-940-2401
    E: personal.shopper.saks@gmail.com
    Days off: Mondays & Tuesdays