Word: dessureault
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...afternoon, and Alanoud has a work meeting she can't miss. In any case, I have an appointment with David Dessureault, the buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue at BurJuman. As she leaves, Alanoud invites me to dinner at a place called Spectrum. "They do the best virgin mojitos," she says. (We end up having more fun on mocktails than I thought possible...
...there's another surprise in store, literally, and it's not Dessureault's revelation that 495 Balenciaga bags have sold at Saks in just six weeks. Instead he leads me behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas...
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