At constant scope and exchange rates, the decline in sales is 12.1%, said Wednesday in a statement. In the first nine months, sales were down 13.2% to 1.357 billion euros against 1.563 billion a year ago.

The decline “reflects the effects of economic recession on the global advertising market,” said Jean-Francois Decaux, CEO, quoted in the press.

The group now expects a decline in sales annual organic “about 12.5%” throughout 2009.

It anticipates an operating margin in 2009 slightly higher than that which was reached in the first half of the year. In the first half, operating margin was 18%, against 26% a year earlier.

The three divisions of the group have seen their sales decline: the furniture fell by 12.7%, advertising in transport by 9.5% and display 18%.

Most European markets were down to two digits of their organic sales in the third quarter reflect particular market conditions very difficult in the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent in France.

“We do not yet see signs of sustainable recovery in the advertising market. The activity is still volatile,” said Mr. Decaux.

“We remain focused on our plan of cost savings and a selective allocation of our investments to maximize the impact of improved economic conditions on the operating margin and cash flow of the group,” says he said.

The global advertising market, affected by the economic crisis, expected to fall 9.9% this year, down more than expected, to low back next year and consolidated in 2011, according to the latest estimates of the agency ZenithOptimedia.

On the Net that the controversy has taken off including the Photoshop Disaster site, which lists the “wolves” caused by the use of the famous editor of the same name.

Initially, Ralph Lauren has denied being the source of an image as crudely reconstructed, involving a provider. The brand has even sued the site BoingBoing, who had reproduced the photo to tell people to give the model its measurements of departure.

But the buzz front, Ralph Lauren has finally acknowledged its fault in the matter. “After checking, we discovered that we were responsible for digital retouching of poor quality leading to an image for a less distorted female body,” says the brand by Hunfington Post. “We have studied the problem and we will in future take all precautions to ensure that the caliber of our artwork is our brand appropriately.

But if the case is to loud noise is to believe the young woman digitally shrunken brand would really be a problem regarding weight.

Model for the brand since the age of fifteen, Filippa Hamilton told U.S. television on MSNBC have been returned in April for being too fat. A version that challenges the fashion house, which shows in the New York Daily News that the young woman does not “respected the undertakings of the contract” which bound them.

After Sir Paul Smith, so it’s the turn of the French to relook the famous box that contains the three volumes comprising the who’s who of the creative industry.

Volume 1, up to Photography (photographers and agents) Volume 2 production (models, hairdressers, makeup artists, locations …) and Volume 3, Art Direction (DA, illustration, music and video, magazines, advertising agencies …).

True to his universe, Martine Sitbon has devised a very Parisian Book both rock, chic and romantic. Under the artistic direction of Marc Ascoli, she shows us a world of elegant through the years with grace and modern, designed with the complicity of the creative duo of ESM.

The Book Paris 2010 edition is already available at Colette or site lebook.com.