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...health- and beauty-care products. "We have enough customers," insists Scott, 57, who can boast that nearly 20 million Americans shop at a Wal-Mart every day. But while they're happily buying toys, toothpaste and tomatoes, they're walking right by the more expensive, more profitable nonfood lines--apparel and home décor. Wal-Mart's grand strategy of becoming more fashionable has fizzled and is being retooled. "It's us," says Scott. "It's not anything beyond...
...Some HoCo chairs remained confused about when and if their committees would receive money. The Quincy HoCo is departing from previous practice and asking House residents to pay for Quincy apparel ahead of time, rather than upon receipt...
...pieces that are almost as expensive as a work of art. Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière cut old-fashioned floral-printed radzimir, the heavy silk once used for mourning garments, with a laser and then bonded it with the flexible, breathable high-tech fabric commonly found in extreme-sports apparel. The dresses will retail for $7,000. At Roger Vivier, a pair of chiffon-and-leather sandals, braided and painted by hand, will ring in at $4,000--and only three pairs will be made. "Where is the luxury if you see things everywhere?" asks Claudio Castiglioni, the global...
...Nike Plus to market in July 2006, marketing chief Trevor Edwards brought together managers from apparel, technology, research, footwear design and music, all working with Apple on the technology. "The best teams get a little borderless," says Michael Donaghu, Nike's director of footwear innovation. "We got really borderless, much more than we have on some other ideas...
Finally, in 1977 she settled on apparel when a friend in the Philippines sent her a suitcase of embroidered shirts that echoed the peasant blouses YSL was doing at the time. After cold-calling a buying agency, she was sent to Bloomingdale's?to the lingerie buyer, as it happened. The buyer suggested Natori make the blouses longer so they could be sold as nightshirts. "Everyone thinks I am obsessed with lingerie," says Natori, "but it was a complete accident...