Word: chancier
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Even if those labels fail, ready- to-wear will survive. Couture's future is chancier. Those catwalk confections don't turn a profit. From inspiration to hand-sewn conclusion, each runway spectacle can cost about $3 million to produce while the number of clients willing to pay $60,000 or more for a dress dwindles. With the U.S. dollar steadily weakening against the euro, such dependable American customers as Suzanne Saperstein, the fashion-mad wife of billionaire media tycoon David Saperstein, are tightening their Hermès belts or dropping out of couture altogether...
...Oprah?" and she replied, "Martha and Oprah are pretty successful controlling bitches, don't you think?" But Oprah gave women a vision of how to be better; Stewart gave them advice on how to get it done prettier and more tastily. The new Rosie--out, stout and lout--was chancier as an icon for mainstream moms...