Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project has not succeeded in its original community-oriented goals, shopkeepers say. By selecting upscale stores like Talbots and Laura Ashley, the developers "created the impression that normal people can't shop here," said the manager of Crabtree and Evelyn...
...thief escaped with several identification cards and approximately $12 in cash belonging to Ashley L. Hogewood III '87. No one was hurt during the incident, and no gun was actually produced...
DIED. Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh-born designer who with her husband Bernard turned her Victorian-inspired, flower-sprigged fabrics into ruffled, romantic fashions and a multimillion-dollar international clothing and housewares empire; of head injuries sustained in an accidental fall; in Coventry, England. What began in 1953 with tea towels silk-screened on the kitchen table of their London flat and sold to local shops became in 1967 the first Laura Ashley shop in London and is today a family-run business encompassing more than 200 shops from Milan to Melbourne, 70 of them...
...programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were great, a few more were fine, O.K.; but when every second downtown in the U.S. gets cheerfully Roused, the formula starts to pall. A pleasurable urban experience ought not to depend on Laura Ashley and Famous Amos...