LIVELY LEATHER: New Shades of Purple and Metallic Silver Glimmer This Spring in the Latest Accessories from CROSS®

CROSS, the world-renowned maker of fine accessories, makes function fashionable with chic new colors in its Autocross™ pen and leather collections.

Purple reigns this spring, and CROSS incorporates a beautifully saturated shade of violet in its Autocross pen, one of the company’s most stylish writing instruments. Supple violet leather in a pebbled finish wraps around the body of this pen. The other shade being introduced for spring is metallic silver, a softly glimmering hue that adds sophisticated shine in an on-trend color treatment. The ballpoint Autocross pens in violet and metallic-silver will debut in March at the suggested retail price of $50.

Both violet and metallic-silver also premiere for spring in the Autocross Leather Collection™ of accessories for where and how you work. These new colors will be available in padfolios, agendas, jotters, and pen pouches (s.r.p. range from $40 for a single pen pouch to $145 for the metallic-silver padfolio).

The violet tone will also be introduced in the women’s leather wallet collection, including card cases, slim envelope wallet, and passport wallet. The wallets are a new category introduction for CROSS and feature full-grain pebbled leather, signature perforation styling, a complimentary mini Cross pen integrated into the wallet design, and a SIM card pocket on the wallets. The violet card cases are s.r.p. $55-65; the passport wallet is priced at $75; the slim envelope wallet has a s.r.p. of $90.

These new shades will launch in March 2009 at all CROSS stores, online at www.cross.com, and through select retailers.