Perkins’ Picks

JAMES C. PERKINS JR. at the Louis Vuitton store on 5th Ave. Photography: Brian Bradley

“The world’s biggest luxury-goods group is benefiting from a flight to quality, but the recession is also prompting questions about the company’s breadth and balance.”
At Economist.com
Amid this turmoil, LVMH is performing relatively well (see chart 1). It has benefited from an [...]

The Canon G9 is a favorite of Purple Fashion Editor and Co-Founder, OLIVIER ZAHM. Photo: men.style.com 10 Essentials: Olivier Zahm.
CANON’S stock (ticker:CAJ) and the markets continue to charge higher. CAJ is now trading over $40 up from around $30 three months ago. Probably solely because everyone wants to be a photographer and start a fashion [...]

DANA BAINES at Thrasher offices in New York. photography: James C. Perkins Jr. & Brian Bradley
Everybody is buying CAMERAS. I mean everybody. And they are taking pictures. It has never been cooler to walk around with this hot accessory and be seen using it. I remember when taking pictures with your friends was so uncool. [...]

i saw the weirdest thing. first during this past thurday’s ‘nyc’s fashion’s night out’ which was like an early halloween in nyc, due to both the costume like fashions and the number of people in the street, i saw two things, first, about fifty kanye west look-alikes at the louis vuitton boutique, and two an [...]

Dow down 7 Nasdaq up 7
Things seem to be coming somewhat more stable in the markets. It wasn’t hard for everyone to figure out that markets, industries, and values were being reset. We are also seeing the resetting of something that I haven’t seen for a while which is the decoupled performance of the DOW [...]

At the beginning of the year, I decided to put $500 into an account for the purposes of the newsletter and to see what we could do with that amount of money as an example for the newsletter. I didn’t go overboard, it was put into a basic on-line brokerage account where the trades are [...]

JP Thrashes the Market… and then Goes Water Ski
For those that are still confused (I can’t believe I am doing this) Cake = Money and Off = Competition. Think ‘Walk Off’ as in “Zoolander. Anyway this is the close of ThrasherTV’s Season 3 CAKE OFF stock competition on our show CAKE BATTER, where we give [...]

This all-caps blog post was inspired by Kanye West’s all-caps blog postings.
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…because fashion is a hub for fresh ideas, new generations of thought, and cutting edge technology. When a brand or one stops innovating they are done.  Finance needs to take some cues from fashion.

After attending the William Rast 2009 Fall Fashion Show, their theme, “New America” really inspired me.

Justin Timberlake owns a 50% [...]

Shares of Warren Buffet’s company Berkshire Hathaway are down 3% in early trading, after Fitch Ratings has downgraded Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s triple-A issuer default rating and senior unsecured debt ratings by one notch.
Fitch cited Berkshire’s unhedged market exposures and potential earnings volatility as “inconsistent with the stability required at the ‘AAA’ level.
Shares of BRK-A [...]