Chanel comes in mind and the best fashion brands for women, before and Valentino and Louis Vuitton. For the claws of shoes is Christian Louboutin who wins first place at Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo. Hermes is considered the best brand of bags to hand luxury monitoring Chanel and Jimmy Choo.

For men’s fashion houses in Italy are considered the most prestigious with a top three consisting of Loro Piana, Ermenegildo Zegna and Giorgio Armani for ready-to-wear and Bottega Veneta, Piaciotti Cesare and Salvatore Ferragamo for shoes.

Ranking done on the basis of a survey of consumers with high incomes. The respondents evaluate brands in terms of four criteria: consistently high quality, degree of exclusivity, a brand that makes consumers a unique person and claws worn by people admired and respected.

Inter Parfums explains this performance by “strong growth (+19%) of perfumes Burberry,” “good overall activity on key areas, including Western Europe and the United States, and an effect favorable exchange rate.

“Given the favorable evolution of the backlog in recent weeks, the company still expects sales for all of 2009 slightly down compared to the year 2008,” indicates the group.

As announced in early October, the company Jimmy Choo and Inter Parfums has signed a worldwide license agreement for a term of 12 years from 1 January 2010 for the creation, manufacture and distribution of fragrances under the brand Jimmy Choo.

In addition, the next weeks will be devoted primarily to the launch of lines Paul Smith Man and Extraordinary Collection of Van Cleef & Arpels and completion of many launches planned during the coming year.

Of the first nine months of the year, turnover of Inter Parfums amounted to 194 million euros, down 3.5% over the same period a year earlier.

“While it is true that fashion is often called the stars for sale (clothes), I believe that the appearance of Lohan for Ungaro was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said AFP Steven Faerm, one of the leaders of the prestigious fashion school Parsons in New York.

“Personally, I think this is proof that some houses are desperate to stay afloat in the current environment,” he said.

The statement of Mr. Faerm add grist to the mill of controversy triggered by the parade autumn / winter home Ungaro, presented last week at the fashion week in Paris by the Spanish designer Estrella Archs, with the “advice creative “of Lindsay Lohan.

At 23, the young actress hit the headlines several times in Hollywood for his recurring problems with alcohol and drugs.

The “popularization” of fashion is at work for many years between the onset of international clothing chains to lower production costs – a situation has been able to exploit the brand H & M, among others, launching collections signed by Madonna, Jimmy Choo or Karl Lagerfeld at affordable prices.

But the collection and Archs Lohan with her dresses cut low over the buttocks and “cache-pins” in the form of hearts, has disgusted the fashion experts around the world.

“It is sad that in our society a product can be sold simply because the consumer feels an affinity with a personality or a celebrity more than the product itself,” laments Mr. Faerm.

When the arrival of the starlet has been announced by Ungaro, WWD (the bible of the fashion world) has a huge photo of Lindsay Lohan at the front, and everyone said “but what were they thinking?” , told AFP Wendy Bendoni, collaborator of the website dedicated StyleLens and professor at Woodbury University, north of Los Angeles.

“Normally, a” creative consultant “is what we are talking about when it comes to creating something for a private label for (the U.S. department store) Macy’s through to the fashion week in Paris” says she, confessing that Lohan arrived at Ungaro had “stomach ache” in the world of fashion.

Chajin Farah, former professor of creative accessories at the University of California Northridge, notes that “many brands tend to indulge in celebrities to attract attention.” But if the alliance was able to give good results in the past, “the collection of Ungaro with Lohan was a mistake,” she said.

“It lacked creativity and innovation,” she said, without ruling out the hypothesis that Ungaro has only sought to “create controversy”.

Booth Moore, fashion columnist for the Los Angeles, is even more categorical. For her, the debut of Lindsay Lohan on the podium was “the march of shame”.

“This announcement represents an important step for Jimmy Choo. Inter Parfums has a remarkable history in the field of luxury perfumes and we are proud to join its portfolio of powerful brands,” said Joshua Schulman, its CEO.

President since 1996 and founder, Tamara Mellon supports this statement by adding that “(his) vision has always been to offer women a complete universe of accessories, perfumes are also an essential component of the modern wardrobe.

Also in an effort to broaden its range of brands “new world”, the group Inter Parfums achieves here a masterstroke.

TowerBrook bought by Capital Partners in February 2007, Jimmy Choo radiates through 100 stores in 32 countries. Today is one of the claws of the most luxurious Acclaimed and respected. And this is not Benacin Philip, CEO of Inter Parfums, which say the opposite. “This brand has the necessary codes intrinsic to an ambitious development of fragrance lines, which rely on significant advertising commitments in the years to come,” says he.