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...gift bag has trickled down to every local charity function, and Distinctive Assets is constantly asked to do bar mitzvahs, weddings and dinner parties, which they sometimes will as a favor to a big client or celebrity. Madison & Mulholland, a gift-bag company in New York City, even produces bags several times a year for United Airlines' first-class passengers and the Hampton Jitney, which is a commuter bus between Manhattan and Long Island, N.Y. ?People who go out to the Hamptons are trendsetters,? says Jane Ubell-Meyer, who founded Madison & Mulholland four years ago. We will...
...business is becoming so institutionalized that, for the second year, Ubell-Meyer is teaching a class called ?The Art of the Goodie Bag? at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology. Even hostesses of small private parties call her. ?There's all this pressure to have a gift bag at every party?nonprofits, profits, everything,? she says...
Hilary De Vries, whose last book was about publicists, has a new novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...POSEN BAG For his spring collection, Zac Posen wanted to go big, but he didn't want to adjust the silhouette of his clothing. So he created the oversize messenger bag, playing with volume in accessories instead. Result: his first line of glamorous bags made of exotic skins (python, stingray and lizard), versatile enough for a last-minute weekend jaunt...
Back at the Via della Spiga store, the lunchtime rush is showing no sign of tailing off. Alberto Addis is straightening a shiny alligator bag that a customer has left askew, moving an eel-skin shoe back to its right place. There is no icy sense of ?please do not touch? here; everything has been handled. ?It's always like this,? Addis says. ?Our customer, maybe she comes to buy, maybe to touch...