Ellen Tracy

For the last ten years, Liz Claiborne seemed to be buying everything in sight, especially things that were to most of us difficult to distinguish from Liz Claiborne itself. (Ellen Tracy? Dana Buchman?)

Now it appears that the company is prepared to part with many of its 16 subsidiaries practically for the asking, so that the company can bestow all its peach-fuzzy kisses on a few younger and more prominent brands like Juicy Couture and Kate Spade.

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