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...STORES Outside, windows reflect a new mood, above; inside, it's a buyer's market as some chains quietly allow haggling, stores increase sale goods 15% and one Manhattan boutique offers free massage. Even chilly Bergdorf Goodman is playing to whim--and wallet--with free drinks, TVs airing sports and its first ever Santa Claus...
...wonder, then, that the National Retail Federation predicted a decidedly uncheery holiday shopping season, cutting its sales growth outlook for the fourth quarter from 4% to 2.2%--a forecast that may still be overly optimistic. Or that luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman has canceled the remainder of its fall orders...
...complained that the Met show makes it appear that he slavishly copied French originals or took explicit directions from his famous client. But Jackie was plainly nobody's mannequin. She knew what she wanted, and she didn't hesitate to tell Cassini. In collaboration with dressmakers at Bergdorf Goodman, the New York City department store, she even designed her Inaugural ball gown. She had her snarky side too. "I imagine you will want to put some of my dresses in your collection," she once wrote to Cassini. "But I want all mine to be originals and no fat little women...
...send the gift registry a $5,000 check. Hillary didn't fill a pillowcase with the sterling after the last state dinner. But trolling for soup ladles you can easily afford is as irrational as the Fifth Avenue matron who filches a vial of perfume from the counter at Bergdorf's. Only Freud could sort...
William Calvert, 29, has made an even quicker trip to important retail venues. Just two years ago, Calvert, who refined his tailoring skills at the fabled Parisian houses of Balmain and Balenciaga, decided to make six sample dresses in New York. Barney's and Bergdorf Goodman placed orders, and suddenly he was in business...