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...about to open their first joint salon. A vast departure from Hershberger's Los Angeles and downtown New York City salons, the new space, located in a limestone townhouse on N.Y.C.'s Upper East Side, blends with the neighborhood's refined atmosphere. "We wanted to create a real jewel box," says Dorram. The pair worked with interior designer Daniel Romualdez, a society favorite, to create a Parisian-atelier-like environment, inspired by the colors of an Hermčs handbag...
...collection of T's, sneakers and camouflage hoodies. Through some preternaturally savvy marketing, he's made a niche for himself co-branding products with everyone from soft-drink manufacturers to condom makers. He's an equal-opportunity opportunist, too: A BATHING APE logos have graced both Microsoft's X-Box and Nintendo's DS video game handset; his clothes feature characters from both Marvel and D.C. comics...
...opted for a creative approach to entice customers. Concepts, a sneaker boutique, began selling a shoe exclusive to its store, drawing a large crowd when doors opened Friday morning, said Tarek Hassan, the owner of Concepts and nearby Tannery boutiques. “You have to go outside the box to make sales in an economy like this,” said Hassan, who said his stores have posted single digit growth in the past month. At the Tannery bold red tape announced discounts from 20 to 50 percent on the store’s wares. At the Harvard Coop...
...stuffed a loose puck through a commotion in front of Hoyle’s net. With the score now 4-1, the Eagles did not let up, playing a very physical game. With the referee’s whistle landing BC players in and out of the penalty box during a seven-minute stretch in the middle of the third period, the Eagles sent their best penalty-killing unit on to the ice and somehow maintained its impressive defense. A close attempt by Fraser was blocked by BC goalie John Muse, who frustrated Harvard with 18 saves on the night...
...home cooks reveled in their convenient new food storage box, plastics innovators pounced on an unmet need for containers that would seal in food and keep refrigerators smelling fresh. New Hampshire native Earl S. Tupper launched Tupperware in the 1940s, and by the following decade, he was marketing the containers via Tupperware "parties" where salespeople could demonstrate the distinctive "burp" that guaranteed longer lives for leftovers. (Tupperware was a roaring success; Tupper sold the company for $9 million in 1958.) For Americans who didn't want to purchase an entire line of pastel plastic containers, Dow Chemical started selling Saran...