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...visionary behind some of the flashiest high-tech buildings in the Ginza district (Chanel's new 10-story flagship) or along Omotesando Avenue (Louis Vuitton's 36,000-sq.-ft. monolith), but when New York City--based architect Peter Marino heads to Tokyo, he seeks out the city's more traditional--and simple--sites, including the shitamachi, or low city. "This city is a succession of villages, and in each one the atmosphere is that of a different world," he explains. One of his favorite routes is from Waseda University down to the Minowabashi station on the Arakawa tram line...
...locations, don't want to aggravate their customers and drive them away from the store," she says. Bendet is not worried about taking a pro-Kerry stance because, as she puts it, the typical Alice + Olivia customer is "younger and open-minded, an uptown/downtown girl, not someone in a Chanel suit...
Bendet's implication, one often heard, is that the woman in the Chanel suit or other ensemble appropriate for lunching at Le Bernardin is probably married to a wealthy Republican who does not want his wife clothed by a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. And while this is a gross--and deeply cynical--generalization, it's more charitable than another frequently suggested possibility, which is that designers are too myopic to concern themselves with anything outside their showroom...
...have Band-Aids, shaving cream with an old-fashioned brush, homeopathic toothpaste from France, Pour Monsieur by Chanel cologne, a little crystal stone that's made to be used as deodorant or for razor burn. I use Frederic Fekkai gel and glossing cream and a wide-tooth detangler comb...
Situated in an upscale residential neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Daslu is a repository of Chanel jackets and Frette linens. What makes the store's unbridled luxury even more pronounced is the yawning chasm between the rich and the poor in Brazil. Daslu has no elaborate window displays a la Barneys--the exterior resembles a bunker--and the store is encircled by a phalanx of unsmiling security guards...