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Aggrawal doesn't expect luxury retail sales to rebound until late 2010 or 2011 at the earliest. (See The Luxury Index...
Basically, fashion designers spend large sums of money - the average runway show costs around $40,000 - to show off clothing they don't expect anyone to buy. But runway shows aren't intended to sell individual items; they're about publicity, prestige and the overall feel of a designer's collection. Every seasonal collection has a theme - nautical, rustic, Victorian, gingham, clowns - that is later translated into more wearable items sold in boutiques and department stores. The colors, fabrics and overall aesthetic will remain true to the collection, but most of the more bizarre features - like the time Isaac Mizrahi...
...largest analysis of its kind, new research pinpoints how long older men who are diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer can expect to live if they opt for a conservative, "watchful waiting" approach to their cancer treatment - as opposed to seeking immediate, aggressive therapies such as surgery and radiation...
...Twenty million dollars is not where I expect us to end up at the end of the year. I think we can do tremendously better—in fact, I think we can come back to a balanced budget in fiscal year ’10,” Smith said. “We started out tremendously well here, but we aren’t out of the woods yet. There’s still more work to be done. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else...
...first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it - and it isn't exactly what you'd expect to find either. First, it's not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico's Gulf Coast, is a sleepy pueblito founded by its namesake, Gaspar Yanga, an African slave who led a rebellion against his Spanish colonial masters in the late 16th century and fought off attempts to retake the settlement. The second thing that is immediately evident to vistors who reach the town's rustic central plaza: there are virtually...