The Churn

Karyn Fenn, managing director of Topshop, has resigned.

Celia Nichols, PR director at Yves Saint Laurent, has resigned.

Glenn McMahon, U.S. president of Dolce & Gabbana, has been named CEO of St. John.

Edward O’Sullivan has been named head of worldwide celebrity dressing and entertainment at Missoni. He was previously global senior director of celebrity services at Ralph Lauren.

Meredith Keller has been named senior manager of celebrity dressing and entertainment at Missoni. She was previously manager of celebrity dressing at Ralph Lauren.

Daniel Ou has been named director of concept development for menswear at Gap Inc. He was previously at Abercrombie & Fitch.

Hilli Pitzer has been named group creative director of The Daily, overseeing The Daily Front Row, Fashion MINI and Tennis Week magazines.

Steve LeGrice has been named executive editor of The Daily Front Row. He continues as executive editor of Tennis Week.

Katie Hobbs, formerly American fashion director at Elle, has returned to the magazine as Southeast manager.

Thea Palad has been named fashion credits editor at Marie Claire. She had been fashion market editor at Life & Style Weekly.

Amy Barnett, formerly managing editor at Teen People, is now deputy editor in chief at Harper's Bazaar on a temporary basis.

Nicole Polley, formerly executive marketing director at Cosmopolitan, has been promoted to associate publisher, marketing. She succeeds Esther Laufer, who is retiring from the Hearst monthly after 12 years.


Lauren Michaels has been named publisher at Latina. She had been group advertising director at Vogue.

Chris Mike has been appointed VP marketing, North America, at Converse.

Matthew Willett has joined Randa Accessories at the New York Office as VP of merchandising – neckwear. Matthew was most recently at Grupo Paloma and has held product development positions at Chaps, JC Penney, and Randa.

Diana Hall, currently the Chicago boutique director of Graff, has added the title of vice president of sales and marketing to her position.

Jessica Pollack is leaving Alison Brod Public Relations. She will be joining the PR department at Hearst as manager, public relations, where she will be working on Marie Claire and Seventeen.

Alison Brod announces the representation of Babies “R” Us.

KSVP Media & Events in Miami announces its representation of Peace for the Children (Donald Pliner’s charity to benefit children in America), and two new restaurants in Miami’s Design District: Domo Japones and Brosia.

Dell et Ruhs Public Relations announces the representation of Alexia Admor, Myne, and Revolver Los Angeles.

Lord & Taylor to Begin $10 Million Branding Campaign

New York, NY (August 8) AP-

Lord & Taylor, the high-end specialty department store chain, with 47 stores in nine states and the District of Columbia, is rebranding with a $10 million campaign beginning this month.

The effort aims to update the tweed-and-herringbone image of the store chain to be more "multigenerational," per a release. The campaign, which begins this month and runs through the quarter, features a stable of sainthood-level celebrities and A-list socialites and their kin in Avedon-type ads shot in California by fashion and celebrity photographer Mario Testino.

The ads feature people like Lauren Hutton, Lydia Hearst, top models, and the kids of John McEnroe and Clint Eastwood. Multi-page inserts will run in September issues of Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Single-page versions of the ads will appear in a range of lifestyle and fashion mags like Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Town & Country and GQ.

The department store will also run 25 billboards in cities and railway stations in markets such as Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York. The outdoor executions will also be at Fashion Week in New York, at Bryant Park this fall.

The company says the rebranding campaign follows a four-year repositioning effort by the department store to update its image. Jane Elfers, Lord & Taylor's President and CEO, said in a release that the campaign parallels efforts to upgrade merchandise assortments, in-store services and amenities, brand packaging, and that there's been a "total overhaul of its media mix."

The company will also unveil a redesigned version of its handwritten logo in September; redesigns of Lord & Taylor shopping bags and boxes will be introduced in the stores Sept. 4. Per the company, the new packages will sport an orange/yellow "sunrise" interior, intended to evoke the East Coast home base of the chain and a new dawn for the company.

Also on tap--a five-year, $250 million capital budget plan.

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Saks stakes its claim with e-learning intiative

Selling skills, performance management, and change management are the three greatest training needs at New York-based Saks Fifth Avenue, says Director of E-Learning Jon Tincher. The global fashion retailer, with 16,000 employees and $2.9 billion in annual sales, provides training to approximately 3,000 new hires each year, and ongoing learning and development to the rest of the organization.

A new ambition for the company is to create "experts in every store," says Tincher. "One of our big problems is we have close to 110 stores around the country, and three or four corporate locations, so touching people in every location is difficult," he explains. Saks will try to meet the challenge by providing stores with "Leader Guides" that serve as facilitator guides, and conducting train-the-trainer sessions to get selected managers at each store proficient at teaching their staff.

A well-prepared staff is essential given the fickle nature of fashion. Frontline staff needs to understand enough about the new offerings to give good advice to customers. "Your product selection can change so drastically from season to season," Tincher notes. "The benefits of each designer, and the selling points of particular brands, are in constant flux."

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The Churn

Liz Meltzer has been named vice president of merchandising at Uniqlo. She had been VP of merchandising at J. Crew.

Emily Horowitz, currently the public relations assistant at Gucci, is leaving to become the PR coordinator at Bergdorf Goodman.

Brooke Magnaghi, formerly jewelry fashion editor at W, has been named accessories and jewelry market director at the magazine.

Ali Hersh Pace, formerly executive beauty director at Teen Vogue, is now advertising manager at Allure.

Aisling McDonagh has been named online sales director at Women's Health.

Alan Aschenbrenner, formerly director of men's sales at Valentino, is now vice president of men's sales at Isaac Mizrahi.

Marisa Tom, formerly with People's Revolution, is now on staff as an account executive at Arieff Communications East.

Arieff Communications announces its representation of "J" Jones New York.

The Patton Group, Chicago, has been retained to coordinate the VIP opening and media outreach of the Burton retail store.

People's Revolution has added Keith Lissner, Topless California, Trash and Luxury, and Le Coq Sportif to its roster of clients.

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