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...reaching higher to bring their customers all things unattainable, Hall points to the one commodity everyone finds out of reach. "Time," says Hall, who in the '80s built out of nearly nothing what became the store's thriving leisure department. To that end, she has overseen a technology overhaul that will provide sales associates with daily alerts about the lives of their customers, whose numbers rank in archived thousands. Anniversary coming up? The associate knows to call the husband and what gifts to suggest for his wife. Thanks to this kind of signature service, Neiman's associates become, to many...
Hermann also built her own team, including a new CFO and a specialist in accessories. YSL stores had almost none of those high-margin items in 1999 but are now filled with shoes, bags and jewelry. Accessories bring in about half of the company's revenue. In addition, there are less expensive clothes, which Hermann insists are not a second line, layered into the stores. The friendlier-priced "capsule" collection includes basic pieces like jersey evening dresses and safari jackets that won't crease in the latest...
...luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful of dynamic women who drive the global luxury-goods business?from Jimmy Choo president Tamara Mellon, who built a $379 million business on the hunch that lots of other women would want what she wanted, to YSL CEO Valerie Hermann, who is relying on her own feminine instincts to reinvigorate the famous French brand...
Matory defines anti-Zionism as "the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Zionism’s supposedly racial nature would surely surprise the German and Yemenite Jews who built the Jewish state together. His claims that Zionism is race-based and "violates Palestinian rights" are strikingly similar to the biased screed that "Zionism is racism...
...years later, Breaux finds himself in a similar position. He’s ahead of a lot of promising young receiving talent on the depth chart, having built chemistry with quarterback Liam O’Hagan after a full preseason of workouts. But one thing’s changed since then—today, there are three guys ahead...