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...Moss's new line is only the latest in Topshop's recent successes among "fast-fashion" retailers, which specialize in almost constantly updating collections of cool clothing at prices so low the clothes are almost disposable. Over the past nine years, Topshop has carved an enviable niche atop this hypercompetitive sector in Britain by appealing to a broader demographic than its competitors, by getting its new designs quickly to market and - in a category where inexpensive too often equals cheap - by emphasizing quality. Topshop's combination of fashion and value has "changed the way we dress," says Lauretta Roberts, editor...
...Topshop turn it around? By heading (relatively) upscale. Tired of its reputation for tackiness and losing out to budget chains in the '90s, Topshop's managers decided to stop competing just on price. "The decision was made to create a fashion authority," says Mary Homer, a joint managing director of Topshop who's been at the retailer for 20 years. (Green, a retail entrepreneur with years of experience in various types of businesses, acquired Arcadia in 2002, and helped execute the strategy already under way.) The company now employs 22 of its own designers, up from around a dozen...
...street gangs that carved up New York City back then were fueled by crime, but many members joined primarily for the sake of the fringe benefits - access to the forbidden pleasures of drink, drugs and sex. And then, as ever since, young toughs also had an eye to fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London...
Teenage is a bracing reminder that the tides of teen rebellion after 1945 were always about more than loud music and fashion. That story has often been told, not least by Savage in his 1991 history of punk, England's Dreaming. What's yet to be accounted for is the curious disappearance in recent years of the generation gap between teens and their elders. In an age when the burning issue at middle-aged dinner parties is whether or not the Arctic Monkeys' second album is up to snuff (definitely, I'd say), it sometimes feels like everyone...
...irony that his paintings of old houses in Maine or on Cape Cod should strike us that way. When they first appeared, they were considered triumphs over the ugliness and banality of the houses themselves. Gilded Age piles with mansard roofs or carpentered scrollwork were deeply out of fashion in the 1920s, when Hopper started seeking them out. In the same way, when he painted Manhattan, it wasn't the jazz-age skyscrapers he was drawn to. It was nondescript brownstones and offices, places like the one in Room in New York, where you could peek through the windows...