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...affordable for most middle-class consumers. This year has seen an influx into this market, allowing regular folks who like flipping through fashion magazines to finally live out some of their glossy daydreams. Retailers are carrying debut collections in this category from Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors and Calvin Klein, and new lines from historical better providers Liz Claiborne and Jones New York. "Better is affordable luxury," says LaVelle Olexa, senior vice president of fashion merchandising at Lord & Taylor. "Designers want to appeal to a broader customer base, and better is a way to do that...
...Calvin Klein is the icon of minimalism, Ralph Lauren the elegant esquire and Donna Karan the workingwoman's tailor, Jacobs is the eclectic sampler who has ushered in an era of sophisticated charm in fashion. His uncanny ability to give street-wise looks a luxurious twist--a thermal undershirt made of cashmere, or cropped cargo pants turned into tuxedo pants--has made him one of the most carefully watched--and desired--designers in the business. The $1,000-plus Murakami bag, a collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, generated more than $300 million in sales for Vuitton last year...
...Calvin herself dons the vintage 501s, often for a year straight to inspire a new finish. She doesn't wash the jeans, only dry-cleans them, so that the wear and tear is natural. She restitches them when they're broken in, and replicates the look as a new style for the masses. "You want to make it look like you found them in a flea market and they've been on your body for 20 years," she says. --By Nadia Mustafa
...Calvin launched new "premium" fits, including Levi's RED, which became the best-selling denim line in Barneys, and designed the Levi's Vintage Clothing line, culling from the company archives. In 2002 she introduced low-rise jeans for men and overhauled the brand's core line after the largest fit test in denim history to create a style and fit for nearly everybody, and every body...
...most illustrious unions in fashion: Christopher Bailey as creative director at Burberry (whose vision, she says, "was so much about this English attitude, the heather and the rain, and immediately we felt that he had the DNA in his blood"), Italo Zucchelli as the menswear design director at Calvin Klein, Christophe Lemaire as creative director for Lacoste. She also placed Narciso Rodriguez and Lanvin's Alber Elbaz in their first design-director positions...