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Entered by: Wendy Streitparth

14:32 Jun 20, 2012
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Marketing - Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / fashion
English term or phrase: help with sentence
Perhaps I am a bit slow today but the following sentence seems a bit messy to me:

"He was contracted to design four collections a year for Givenchy, on top of the two for his own label, with Gibo poised to set up licensing agreements under the Alexander McQueen name with his company, Birdswan, and two stores planned."

There is no further explanation who Gibo and Birdswan are. I just don't get what the parts of the sentence have to do with each other, especially the licensing agreements and the stores. Can someone enlighten me?
Karin Maack
Germany
Local time: 23:11
s.below
Explanation:
As you can see in the reference, Alexander McQueen's company is "Birdswan solutions" and Gibo is the subsidiary of his Japanese backer. Whether the "he" in your text is referring to Alexander McQ. is not clear, but you will know that from the context.

Hope this helps
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Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 23:11
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Vielen Dank, Wendy
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Explanation:
As you can see in the reference, Alexander McQueen's company is "Birdswan solutions" and Gibo is the subsidiary of his Japanese backer. Whether the "he" in your text is referring to Alexander McQ. is not clear, but you will know that from the context.

Hope this helps

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 23:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 57
Grading comment
Vielen Dank, Wendy
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes. it does. I didn't find "Birdswan solutions" in your reference. But now you've mentioned it, I looked it up in Google and found it there. Thank you.

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Reference information:
http://www.designerindex.net/designers/alexandermcqueen.html

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 57
Note to reference poster
Asker: Thank you, now I know at least who Gibo is.

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