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...head and my heart were pounding," she says. If caught--either in the attempt or in China--she would have received at least a long prison sentence and could quite possibly have been executed. At 2 a.m., with no guards in sight and clutching just one small bag with a change of clothes in it, she hustled across the frozen Tumen River and into China for the second time...
Maier and his team are luxury rebels. They have refused to succumb to the democratization of luxury brands, marked by big logos, lower-priced offerings and "it" bags. Even the most label-conscious consumers--the Japanese--don't seem to miss the blatant badges. At a trunk show in the brand's new Omotesando boutique in Tokyo last week, Maier sold $308,000 worth of bags in less than two hours. (Of course, the Japanese customers asked him to sign them on the inside.) "'It' bags mean nothing," said Maier of styles like Fendi's $1,430 B bag. "Women...
...woman who buys Bottega may not need logos, but she sure needs a lot of cash. A typical bag--the popular woven Cabat tote, for example--rings in at more than $2,000 and can run as high as $75,000 if made in an exotic skin such as crocodile. The company's real signature--woven, or intrecciato, leather--was developed in 1966 when Bottega Veneta started as a family business in the Veneto region of Italy, an area known for soft leather and the craftsmen who know how to manipulate it. The big idea back then--and still today...
From page 68 of McCafferty’s second novel: “‘Omigod!’ shrieked Sara, taking a pink tube top emblazoned with a glittery Playboy bunny out of her shopping bag...
...middle. The ball ricocheted off the glove of pitcher Shawn Haviland and fortuitously bounced over to Stoeckel, a late-game defensive replacement at second base. Stoeckel corralled the grounder and sent a low throw over to Steffan Wilson, who was able to scoop the ball and hold the bag long enough to earn the game-ending out call. “That ball got deflected, it looked like it was going up the middle and get over,” Walsh said. “[But Haviland] had earned it to be out there.”The sequence preserved...