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...deal for LensCrafters, Luxottica also got the midmarket women's-clothing chain Casual Corner. Luxottica couldn't find a buyer for the poorly performing outfit and after two years was on the verge of liquidating it when Del Vecchio said he'd buy it himself. Why? "It was a gut feeling more than anything else," he says. So Del Vecchio left day-to-day operations at Luxottica to strike out on his own. Within a few years, the hemorrhaging at Casual Corner had stopped?and Del Vecchio was looking to expand into additional retail concepts...
Number of acres of Texas' Big Bend National Park--a portion known as the Christmas Mountains--being auctioned off. The rare move could put state wildlife preserves in the hands of a private buyer...
...year-old," Katz says. She is also fluent in Chanel, conversational in Marni, and Thakoon curious. "And, obviously, you have to have a certain amount of affluence to afford the kinds of things we have to offer," says the Texas-born Katz, who began her career as a buyer at Foley's in Houston and whose second favorite store, she admits, is Target. "I've been a longtime aficionado. I was an early adopter. That's part of who I am too." Sure enough, Katz comes off as the nicest whiz at business school or the smartest, chicest...
...stores, as she does now, worked in everything from sportswear, fine apparel, dresses and handbags to shoes and beauty. "I grew up at Neiman Marcus," says Hall, who was raised in New Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does on this day in her Michon Schur jacket. "I love to dress for work. I love to push the envelope," says Hall, who when Marni began to pique fashion interest had an impromptu try-on clinic...
Finally, in 1977 she settled on apparel when a friend in the Philippines sent her a suitcase of embroidered shirts that echoed the peasant blouses YSL was doing at the time. After cold-calling a buying agency, she was sent to Bloomingdale's?to the lingerie buyer, as it happened. The buyer suggested Natori make the blouses longer so they could be sold as nightshirts. "Everyone thinks I am obsessed with lingerie," says Natori, "but it was a complete accident...