{"id":4535,"date":"2009-10-28T16:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T00:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:04:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:04:30","slug":"versace-cuttin-more-than-hemlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/versace-cuttin-more-than-hemlines","title":{"rendered":"Versace Cutting More Than Hemlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In response to the still-lagging world economy and the drop in the luxury goods market, Versace has announced its plans to guillotine a quarter of its international work force in order to cut costs and pave the way for company restructuring.<\/p>\n

Although companies backed by luxury mega-giant LVMH are doing relatively well thanks to the conglomerate’s deep pockets, Versace — though a luxury brand — is still struggling because it is privately-owned and thus can not depend on the stabilizing stock market to stay out of the red.<\/p>\n

If all goes as planned, the Versace brand should be out of deep water and generating revenue by 2011.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a> {NY Times}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the still-lagging world economy and the drop in the luxury goods market, Versace has announced its plans to guillotine a quarter of its international work force in order to cut costs and pave the way for company restructuring. Although companies backed by luxury mega-giant LVMH are doing relatively well thanks to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[796,794,394,58,415,45,793,795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}