Word: andersson
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...sales on the same street. As Japan's recessionary economy and the appreciation of the yen left other businesses in Japan to watch purse strings tighten and household consumption drop, people continued to wait outside H&M day after day. "I'm totally fascinated by the queuing," says Jorgen Andersson, H&M's Brand and New Business Director. "I think it's the first impression. The challenge is to deliver once the honeymoon is over." Japan country manager Christine Edman says the new thriftiness hitting Tokyo has even helped their low-priced brand. "Sometimes the timing is good...
...share the same block, like GAP, Topshop, and Zara, can't. H&M Japan says it will monitor the pricing of other brands, including Japan's own uber-casual UNIQLO, but isn't fazed by the competition. "If you've seen one GAP, you've seen them all," says Andersson. He says one of H&M's strengths is that it can tailor a store for the customer in a particular neighborhood or shopping district. "An advantage at H&M is that we have a high density of stores in certain cities. In Stockholm we have 30, and people have...
...been a source of inspiration for H&M's designers, as reflected in the company's most recent designer collaboration with Rei Kawakubo's high-fashion label, Comme des Garcons. "Japanese usually pick one piece here, one piece there and put it together. That makes it a challenge," says Andersson. "It puts high demand on what we deliver." So will tomorrow's lines outside the Harajuku store...
...real Harvard are the names of the three admissions officers who accept Elle into Harvard Law—Pforzheimer, Lowell, and Winthrop.The event also took on a lighter tone. Members of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, dressed in drag as sorority sisters and Elle Woods, tested their Elle (David J. Andersson ’09) against Gulsvig in a series of challenges, including dog training and practice LSAT questions. After being presented with the impossible challenge to help a fellow sorority sister locate her true love, Gulsvig upstaged Andersson’s answer and revealed her natural wit by thinking...
...this once, then run for cover: Abba was not just the top-selling group of the '70s; Andersson and Ulvaeus created the smartest, most buoyant body of work from any pop group since the Beatles. Their gaudy gear, with the spangles and spandex, made them easy to deride, but their real sin was that they lacked "depth," which is to say they didn't pretend to be miserable. Instead, like pop performers from an earlier age, they pretended to be happy. Their music did too. The lyrics to the song Mamma Mia confess to erotic obsession and serial masochism...