Word: colorations
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...stuff free. It's a business! You can't just say, "Ooh, I'll have the whole shop today in every single color!" I've nicked some of my samples--tops, jeans, trousers, the odd evening dress...
...actually had a shoe closet built in my apartment in Manhattan. The whole bedroom was designed around [it]. It's backlighted so they're presented almost like art; they're color coordinated; and they're behind smoke-glass doors...
...sets the color palette for the day. If Joy [Behar] is going to wear a fuchsia top, then we're color coordinated around her. And we have never once in seven years had a disagreement--"Oh, I want to wear red today. Oh, I was planning to do that." Not one time...
...cosmetics buyer at Macy's in the early '80s, Bravo noted the sudden proliferation of fuchsia in fashion. She called Carol Phillips, co-founder and then head of Clinique. "I said, 'This pink is wildly popular. It's everywhere in the clothing. We don't have a lipstick that color,'" Bravo recalls. Phillips called back to say a new lipstick would be in the line immediately. Bravo says her biggest break came in 1988 when Macy's promoted her from senior vice president of merchandising to chairman and chief executive of its new acquisition, the California-based chain I. Magnin...
...into projects that are supposed to be permanent, if not immutable: her architecturally pioneering stores in New York City (by Dutch brainiac Rem Koolhaas) and Tokyo (by the precise Swiss duo Herzog & De Meuron). Whereas common sense says a designer should design what she likes, Prada will choose a color (such as turquoise) that she despises, because of the rush it gives her when she can make something beautiful with...