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...walk to Cabot K, Tad insists he is not an attractive person and does not get women, but the three of us counter that the shuttle does not lie. He claims it must be the shirt. "I bought this new shirt. This is the first new shirt I've bought since eighth grade or something...
Beauty has gone back to basics. In the U.S.'s $16 billion cosmetics industry, you don't need supermodels like Cindy Crawford. You don't need to ply customers with giveaways. And with the advent of the Web and stores like Sephora, you don't need counter space at Saks or Macy's. The business of beauty, that most undemocratic phenomenon, has been made over by boutique companies offering such offbeat products as transdermal vitamin C patches (Osmotics), Saint-John's-wort lipstick (Tony & Tina) and shimmery body powder (BeneFit...
...helps that women now shop for cosmetics differently. "Young women loathe department stores--the whole system of waiting at the counter, having to get someone's attention," says Charla Krupp, an editor at Glamour magazine. Today's consumers prefer to grab a lipstick at Victoria's Secret or a boutique store, or to shop online. Nearly 25 new cosmetics websites have been launched this fall. Even the mass-market retailers are taking their cue from the indies. Sears has just introduced T.i.m.e. (The Instant Makeup Expert), a $20 color-coordinated kit; and Target is relying on Sonia Kashuk, Cindy Crawford...
...Jacob Lawrence and Florine Stettheimer--all of them have been tried out on museum walls. It was only a matter of time before attention turned back to Rockwell, a man who could paint cute but intricate scenes like The Runaway, where a cop and a waiter at a lunch counter size up a wayward but innocent kid. Is this art rising from the primordial muck of kitsch? Or just kitsch? As the grownups look him over, the kid makes you think of Rockwell being examined by the powers that be. Including...
...racked by restructuring woes, new start-ups emerge every day in Japan. To be sure, their ranks are puny by U.S. standards, but the movement seems to have taken hold. This fall 2,300 enthusiasts turned out for a meeting promoting the establishment of a NASDAQ over-the-counter market in Japan. Old business models are being tossed aside like yesterday's sashimi. The hero of a popular novel is the young president of a chain of bars. One of Japan's biggest growth industries is continuing education. And Tokyo's newspapers are filled with ads for night schools designed...