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CURRENT JOB EXECUTIVE VP, WOMEN'S APPAREL AT NEIMAN MARCUS...
...presided over the now 39 Neiman Marcus stores for the past five years, a period when unequaled media attention, including television programs like Sex and the City, has produced a culture more fashion savvy than ever before. Katz and comrades Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of women's apparel, and Neva Hall, executive vice president of stores?the troika of women at the helm of Neiman Marcus?stayed ahead of the crowd with flying jewel tones...
...chinchilla clearly worth mentioning. And forward fashion, believe it or not, has stepped way up. "Eight years ago, the customer thought of Prada as being fairly avant-garde. Today it's in the majority of our stores and very successful," says Stordahl, a Minnesota native who, overseeing women's apparel for Neiman Marcus for the past 13 years, has long been a regal fixture in fashion's front row. "It's very funny, because I grew up in a tiny little town in Minnesota. We were nowhere near a big city, and our source of fashion was catalogs...
...always about the most expensive of the most expensive, but about what we can offer the customer that is not readily available," says Hall, who before overseeing the selling, marketing, merchandising and planning strategies of all 39 stores, as she does now, worked in everything from sportswear, fine apparel, dresses and handbags to shoes and beauty. "I grew up at Neiman Marcus," says Hall, who was raised in New Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does...
...what sites are lower income Internet users visiting? Again, you might be a little surprised. Browsing the top shopping sites visited by Internet users in the lowest income groups include sites that trade in exotic cars, expensive apparel brands and high-end electronics. Perhaps these searches are aspirational. But what about what is considered by most to be a necessity today - a simple, basic cell phone...