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Hall: But you always push the fashion quotient, so you educate the customer, so you educate the stores...
...wear and couture, with jackets ringing in at upwards of $6,000. Handbags have skyrocketed over the past two years, with the exotic-skin bags of Nancy Gonzalez special standouts. Fur is also flying out of the stores, including a Chado Ralph Rucci chinchilla clearly worth mentioning. And forward fashion, believe it or not, has stepped way up. "Eight years ago, the customer thought of Prada as being fairly avant-garde. Today it's in the majority of our stores and very successful," says Stordahl, a Minnesota native who, overseeing women's apparel for Neiman Marcus for the past...
...says Hall, who before overseeing the selling, marketing, merchandising and planning strategies of all 39 stores, as she does now, worked in everything from sportswear, fine apparel, dresses and handbags to shoes and beauty. "I grew up at Neiman Marcus," says Hall, who was raised in New Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does on this day in her Michon Schur jacket. "I love to dress for work. I love to push the envelope," says Hall...
PARIS Hôtel Bellechasse Beloved French couturier Christian Lacroix just added the chic redesign of this hotel in St. Germain to the list of projects he has completed in time to commemorate his 20 years in fashion...
...used to be that fashion designers were stars, and when it came to time-honored accessory brands, consumers didn't really know?or care?who designed the goods as long as the logo or label was there. But times have changed. From Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton to Reed Krakoff at Coach, the name behind the bag, not on it, is becoming more and more familiar to shoppers. The most recent addition to this crowd is burgeoning American fashion star Derek Lam, who in December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand...