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...department stores. Founded in 1969 by Entrepreneur Donald Fisher, the company relied heavily on the blue-jeans craze in the 1970s, but then added bright-colored, practical sports clothes. In 1983 Fisher made two shrewd moves. He bought Banana Republic, a San Francisco retailer with three stores and a catalog operation that sold trendy travel and safari wear, and he hired a new president, Millard Drexler, the marketing whiz from the Bronx who had turned around the faltering Ann Taylor chain...
Judith E. Stein, curator of the Grooms show that started its national tour two years ago at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, sets him up as a real satirist. With a "keen political sense," she claims in her catalog introduction, "Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honore Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case...
...seem, vulgarity soon palls. Grooms' work is not folk sculpture -- it is too self-regarding for that -- but it enacts the illusion of folksiness. One suspects he might not know what to do if he stopped this beaming and lapel grabbing. "It's almost subversive," Grooms remarks in the catalog, "if I do something that isn't jokey." To him, perhaps...
Some 60 million Americans spend about $50 billion each year shopping by mail- order catalog. Until now, most of these slick advertising circulars were free. Starting later this month, however, consumers will be able to buy the publications at their local news outlets. Catalog Retail of Connecticut will send more than 200 catalogs for goods ranging from Fuller brushes to Tiffany crystal to 76,000 newsstands and other U.S. magazine retailers...
...publications will be sold alongside regular magazines that deal with related topics. Followers of fashion, for example, may find catalogs for Brooks Brothers and Benetton next to Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, while cooks will find Community Kitchens and the Chef's Catalog alongside Gourmet. In a test run of the notion earlier this year at 1,000 Waldenbooks stores, more than half a million copies were sold...