The company's purpose is the manufacture, distribution, and wholesale and retail of women's fashion and accessories, as well as the operation of corresponding retail stores and online trading. The company may participate in other enterprises, acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and, in addition, carry out all legal acts that the company's purpose may entail or that are suitable for promoting its development or that of group companies. It may acquire, dispose of, encumber, manage, lease, and develop real property both domestically and abroad, with the exception of real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not.