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...success of these numerous forays depends on an elaborate support system. Target takes care of the heavy lifting?fabric sourcing, sample production, marketing?and allows the rotating design stars to focus on what they do best. Adams and Sprenger oversee a swat team of merchants and marketers. Volume helps keep costs down. "We have so much buying power that it drops fabric prices dramatically," says Adams, explaining why a cropped suede jacket by Proenza Schouler for Target sells for $139.99 while a jacket from its own line is likely to be 10 times as much. Or why an elegant beaded...
...JUST ABOUT FASHION? No, we design the fabrics too. Because Zegna is also a textile manufacturer, 95% of the fabrics are exclusive to us. We are obsessed with textiles! Everything has a modern twist. We'll take a traditional fabric like wool and treat it with that twist...
...fastest creative cycle in any business. For that reason creative types in almost every other industry keep an eye on what's happening in fashion. And so for every trend that comes down the runway, there are hundreds of trend forecasters pouncing on the next hot color, texture, fabric, shape or shoe. For spring you may already know that silver is ubiquitous in handbags and shoes and that the silhouette veers between a replicant look best realized by Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga and an overtly romantic vision put forth by Alexander McQueen. But never mind spring. At press time...
...Gournay, the wallpaper-and-fabric firm, was the inspiration behind Posey Shanghai, Molly Larkin's new line of beautifully hand-painted silk silhouettes. Larkin, a De Gournay client, asked the firm to paint fabrics like the Zinfandel Magnolia, above, taken from a tree in Larkin's Napa Valley garden. At Stanley Korshak, Dallas...
...runners can claim to have, but which Obama proudly declares he does not need in order to realize “that the ways of Washington must change.†The second is personality. Once more, Obama has not yet been generous: By shrouding himself in the breezy fabric of audacious promises and good publicity, Obama has not given us any substance on which to judge...