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Claire's Stores, Inc. Invites You to Join Its Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call

    PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In conjunction
with Claire's Stores, Inc.'s (NYSE: CLE) second quarter earnings release, you
are invited to listen to its conference call on Thursday, August 19, 2004 at
10:00 am EDT with Marla Schaefer, Co-Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer;
Bonnie Schaefer, Co-Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer; and Ira Kaplan,
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Claire's Stores, Inc.

     What:  Claire's Stores, Inc. Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call

     When:  Thursday, August 19th at 10:00 am EDT

     How:   Call In:  1-210-795-9101
            Password: CLAIRES
            Live over the Internet: Log onto our web site:
            http://www.clairestores.com

     Instant Replay:  1-402-998-0463
                      Password: 25247
                      The conference call will be archived on our web site
                      through August 27, 2004 at http://www.clairestores.com

    Company Overview
    Claire's Stores, Inc., is a leading international specialty retailer
offering value-priced costume jewelry and accessories to fashion-aware tweens,
teens and young adults through its two store concepts:  Claire's and Icing by
Claire's.  While the latter operates only in North America, Claire's operates
internationally.  As of July 31, 2004, Claire's Stores, Inc. operated
approximately 2,835 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Austria and
Germany.  Claire's Stores, Inc. operates through its subsidiary, Claire's
Nippon, Co., Ltd., 134 stores in Japan as a 50:50 joint venture with AEON,
Co., Ltd. (fka JUSCO, Co. Ltd.), a $25 billion specialty retailer
headquartered in Japan.  The Company also licenses 55 stores in the Middle
East under a licensing and merchandising agreement with Al Shaya Co., Ltd.


SOURCE Claire's Stores, Inc.




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    CONTACT:
    Marisa Jacobs, Vice President of Corporate
    Communications & Investor Relations, +1-212-594-3127, or Fax,
    +1-212-244-4237, marisa.jacobs@claires.com