Per Una and Autograph are lines which are looking distinctly tired and middle aged.
The glitch in all this are the results, which are looking patchy.
LCR's shareholders include National Express, UBS, Bechtel and Electricité de France - several of which are looking for an exit.
A huge chunk of those I.P.O.'s are companies owned by private equity firms, which are looking to cash out their holdings in a buoyant market.
But other actions could be taken by the Justice Department, the F.B.I. or the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — all of which are looking into the financial crisis.
Partly, he said, the flurry of development work is a result of the increasing number of manufacturers, which are looking for ways to differentiate themselves.
The deal is the latest in a flurry of announcements by private equity firms, which are looking to capitalize on the booming energy sector in the United States.
This has drawn a feisty response from the big Dutch banks, which are looking to Eastern Europe to make up for slow growth in their home market.
Displaced investment banks, law firms and insurance companies, which are looking for less than 50,000 square feet of office space, are foraging north for space in Midtown.
J. C. Penney, Sears and Kmart, which are looking for chief executives at the same time, expect their competitors' searches to increase the difficulty.
With the growth in dot-com and e-commerce companies, which "are looking to back up their data, we have a new market segment," Mr. Harris said.
