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Vintage at Goodwood

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Vintage at Good wood: retro chic comes of age Vintage has had a rocky ride to respectability. The Noughties saw the word become fashionable and then ubiquitous. Kate Moss paraded her Twenties flapper dresses, Topshop got in on the act, and vintage megastore Beyond Retro in east London became a hipster hangout. From T-shirts to tea sets, it became a watered-down label applied to anything second-hand. Now the pendulum has swung back: vintage is special again. “Today, 'vintage’ is overground and it’s hard to find a town without a vintage clothes shop,” says Wayne Hemingway, designer and founder of Red or Dead, who has collected vintage since his youth. “But when I was growing up, wearing second-hand signified you were poor.” To channel his passion, Hemingway, along with his wife Gerardine and their children, has created the UK’s first vintage festival, Vintage at Goodwood. A three-day celebration of fashion, music and culture, this week...

Xerium Technologies Receives Continued Listing Standards Notice from the NYSE

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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xerium Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: XRM), a leading global manufacturer of industrial textiles and rolls used primarily in the paper production process, today announced that on November 18, 2009, it received notification from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it was not in compliance with an NYSE standard for continued listing of the Company’s common stock on the exchange. Specifically, the Company is considered below criteria by the NYSE because the average closing price of the Company’s common stock was less than $1.00 per share over a consecutive 30 trading day period. This notification represents the second instance that the Company was not in compliance with this criterion during the past twelve months. On December 29, 2008, the Company was first notified by the NYSE that, in addition to not being in compliance with this criterion, the Company was ...