Word: cartiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tourist on Mexico City's tree-lined Calle Amberes in the Zona Rosa shopping district might wonder if he is suffering from the mile-high altitude. There at No. 9 is a brand-new Cartier boutique, its windows agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. But only eight doors away, at No. 15-C, is another Cartier, its windows also agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. What is going on? The answer is that No. 15-C is a phony Cartier, and that No. 9 is the real...
...genuine Cartier shop was opened last week to battle the imposter. The fake is the creation of Fernando Pelletier, a Mexican who has 14 "Cartier" boutiques, half of them in the capital, and others in places like Acapulco, Guadalajara and Puebla. They sell such bogus baubles as tank knock-offs assembled with cheap Swiss watch movements. Pelletier once offered to sell his stores to the Paris firm for $4.5 million, but irate Cartier officials decided to pay lawyers instead. The company has won 25 suits against Pelletier, but the copy Cartier remains in business, and still costs the Paris original...
...Hong Kong firm turns out a timepiece under the Aseikon label, so that all a distributor has to do is strip off the a and the n to get a Seiko. In Milan this summer, police raided a warehouse where counterfeiters made copies of goods sold by Dior, Fendi, Cartier, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Omega and Celine, among other firms. The inventory included 10,000 gold-plated watches and lighters, 8,500 handbags, 400 pieces of luggage, wallets and purses, 600 belts, 120 assorted boxes and trinkets and more than 1,000 umbrellas...
Tout Paris wore its hautest couture to the elegant Nuit S de Cartier, a party to launch the jeweler's new line of evening accessories. Well, almost tout. Catherine Deneuve's date, Actor-Singer-Director Serge Gainsbourg, came to the ball uncombed, sans tie and wearing a scruffy 9 o'clock shadow. But then, the ex-love of Actress Jane Birkin is known for being defiantly négligé, despite the company he keeps. Cartier Heiress and Chairman Nathalie Hocq, 29, personally arranged the intimate dinner for 879 and subsequent party for 1,500, chartering eight...
Quite a few jewelers have been stung. The replacement cost of their inventories has risen dramatically, but not many shoppers have been willing to buy at the new prices. Because carriage trade customers continue to splurge, Cartier, Tiffany and other top-line stores are not suffering, but the rest of the retail business has fallen off badly. Laments Terry Weinshank, vice president of Delage Jewelers, a supplier to 500 stores throughout the Midwest: "The retail jewelry business is dying right before our eyes. In the last couple of weeks we have seen six of our customers close up, and more...