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D2 Jeans, became the first post-Christmas retail casualty when it collapsed into administration.

The failure of the fashion retailer, which was bought out by its management team in January 2008, threatens nearly 800 jobs.

All the company’s 76 stores in Britain will remain open while BDO, the administrator, tries to find a buyer. At its Ayrshire head office, 22 staff were made redundant, while two of its three stores in Dublin were closed immediately, with the loss of 39 jobs.

BDO said that it held “substantial” levels of stock, enabling it to keep the stores open while a buyer was being sought. There have been at least seven expressions of interest.
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The retailer suffered from being locked into high rents in secondary high street locations. In the year ending January 2008, the latest for which figures are available, D2 made a pre-tax loss of £2.9 million, after £1.9 million loss the previous year.

It is the latest part of Sir Tom’s former business empire to fail. Last year, JJB Sports put Qube, the shoe business that it bought from Sir Tom’s West Coast Capital vehicle, into administration, while USC, another fashion retailer, went into a pre-pack administration to offload unprofitable stores.

In 2001, as D2 was poised for rapid expansion, Sir Tom expressed confidence in its prospects, saying: “Back in 1998, people were saying that Jeremy Clarkson [the television presenter] had killed off the jeans market. But it has bounced back. Really, it will never go away. It is such a versatile piece of clothing.”

James Stephen, co-administrator at BDO, said: “It is unfortunate that the economic climate and difficult trading conditions have significantly affected the retail sector. We are continuing to trade the business and hope to sell all or part of it as a going concern.”

Alan Kinney and Jim McGonigle, Sir Tom’s former business partners, led the management buyout of D2 early last year. They had run small denim retailers in Scotland, which Sir Tom acquired.

Holiday cash registers closed last week with a mix of fear and hope for sellers and makers of clothes inspired by surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding.

“Every retailer is concerned about holiday shopping,” said Sean Smith, executive director of the Aliso Viejo-based Surf Industry Manufactur-ers Association, an industry group that represents makers of clothes and other products. “The good thing is that expectations are not what they were last year.”

Makers of clothes inspired by surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding—dubbed actions sports by those in the industry—are hoping to see a slow rise into the New Year.

But expectations are realistic, according to Smith.

“No one is expecting the economy and consumer spending to go back to what it was,” he said.

November was “another down month” for action sports boutiques, according to a survey by Milwaukee-based investment bank Robert W. Baird & Co.

Even so, November was “essentially in line with (October), but not nearly down as much as a year ago,” analyst Mitch Kummetz wrote in a report.

At Torrance-based Becker Surfboards, which runs three Orange County stores and is opening a fourth, online sales are hitting last year’s numbers and then some, according to President Dave Hollander.

In January, the retailer is opening Becker Paddle Surf in Mission Viejo. The 7,000-square-foot shop is set to sell everything for standup paddle surfing, a sport Hollander said is all the craze these days.

But the industry’s dominant retailer, Anaheim-based Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., isn’t faring so well.

NoKo Jeans are black, because North Koreans “usually associate blue jeans with America,” making them “a little bit taboo,” Ohlsson said.

Jeans are not allowed in the North Korean dress code, but the upstarts say they nevertheless hope that one day they can “make clothes that our friends in the country can wear too.”

The jeans were to have gone on sale at trendy Stockholm department store PUB on December 5 but PUB decided at the last minute to halt the sale, saying it did not want to be dragged into a political debate.

The communist state, all but cut off from foreign influence for the past 60 years, “has been isolated for so long and ethically, we thought that any sort of increased contact with the outside world would be good,” Ohlsson told AFP recently.

The entrepreneurs visited North Korea twice and insisted that the working conditions at their Pyongyang-area factory were good.

Rights groups accuse North Korea of systematic and widespread human rights violations, including torture and forced labour.

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A history of a rare cold air to the north, the sweeping our country, most of the country earlier than in previous years have also ushered in the winter’s first snowfall and temperatures are also a significant reduction in comparison with the same periods, so “cold “and” insulation “has become this winter has been one of the two words most often mentioned. How to take this early arrival of winter in both demeanor and warm, as many young people trying to solve problems.

A few years ago, turned out to the “thermal underwear” in pocketed the eye after the clip because its plastic, such as wearing a cumbersome problem in a short-lived after being abandoned by the people. Now, 5th Street, the emergence of bovine Knitting insulation jeans, for the majority of the young beauty and grace to achieve the unity of the temperature.

“Some time ago, when the cold air to our colleagues in the office wearing giant panda takes a national treasure like, but Xiao Tang is a pair of jeans plus an underwear’re in business. At first, I saw Xiao Tang and colleagues are dressed in such a way surprised, do not think this girl is really smug life, the weather may not wear as thin as strange disease. But later, we learned that Xiao Tang’s reluctance to stand the cold, not because she was ’smug’, but her jeans Natiao insulation of the year reason. “Exhibition of Focus Media’s colleague Li Qi says.

“When I first chose the production of insulation jeans Fifth Avenue, one to rely on its half-century of brand reputation Moreover it is to be the world’s first attracted to the concept of jeans insulation. After the effects are wearing the name of its promotional In fact, Fu. remember 5th Street, jeans, knitted warm note cards printed with ‘caution hot’ words, then there is a colleague wonder why I do not stand the cold to touch when my jeans, I shouted ‘Be careful, hot’, to my colleague was shocked. “Xiao Tang said at a press conference in front.

In the market, the reporter found that there are still many clothing manufacturers are now focused mostly on “thermal underwear”, this is also making the “thermal underwear” in sales of various bottlenecks encountered. The Cotton Industry Co., Ltd., Zhongshan 5th Street, then break the convention and the concept of the warmth turned to outside from the inside, enabling consumers to experience the warmth of both can be seen. And this practice also with the “5th STREET JEANS-fifth Street,” consistent with the spirit of the brand.

This was born in the last century, the brand since 1965, since it went public in Philadelphia, at the time to volunteer for half a century, and continue to pursue the concept of cowboy culture and cowboy breakthrough, not only in the present to consumers the most classic cowboy clothing, but also the Wild West to the United States in the most primitive of the cowboy spirit of the tribute.

“Our Fifth Avenue’s mission is to let consumers enjoy the most comfortable cowboy clothing also the most direct experience of the cowboy spirit in which the reserves, so this time we introduced the world’s fifth Street, the first knitting warm pair of jeans, not only autumn and winter fashion is a revolution, but also a pioneering trip to the fashion industry. “Zhongshan Cotton Industry Co., Ltd. 5th Street, this business manager said,” The 5th Street, jeans, knitted thermal fabric used in the organizational structure with circular knitted fabrics This scalability and coated fabric strength is not only good, and it may be a natural extension as the body lines, of which the added PP fiber Gengshi Bi natural material is very light and water but also environmental protection can be recovered in a natural decomposition , thus reducing environmental pollution. Therefore, knitted pair of jeans since listing, it has won many consumers, especially young people of all ages, sales have soared even more. ”

In the Fifth Avenue store, the reporter saw, carefully laid out store, different styles of clothing placed in bold in the dissemination of a delicate atmosphere, store the broadcast HIP-POP music store in the future are virtually music of young people a sense of driven up, which also confirms the “5th STREET JEANS-fifth Street” behind the leading fashion has great affinity, which is able to achieve the success of Fifth Avenue where the brand Tips.

Fifth Avenue, according to the relevant responsible person said, in order to enable consumers to purchase online genuine branded products Fifth Avenue, Fifth Street, in cooperation with Taobao, Taobao build the brand’s flagship Fifth Avenue store, which is expected Zhengshishangxian flagship store will be in December and will be opened in the day, as well as Christmas and New Year’s Day, etc. put up big offer, so that the majority of consumers at the lowest price experience of the Fifth Street in Chelsea Heights extraordinary quality.