Word: fashionability
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...come. English Professor Gordon Teskey described the plans under consideration as “a total transformation and reconceptualization of the concentration.” And indeed it is. Instead of a relatively restricted program of many common classes, English concentrators will be given greater latitude to self-fashion their own literary “journeys,” in the words of Shakespearian Stephen J. Greenblatt...
...refuses to see her career as a progression. “I never imagined there would be a progression. I imagined there would be a regression. Progression—this is not an idea that is active in me,” she said. But in her characteristic reconstructive fashion, Denis modifies her statement. “Maybe—if progression meant an exploration underground so you don’t know where you are, and it becomes too narrow, so you step back...
Stores have to figure out how to tap into this recalibrated value system--one based on caution rather than the branded excess of Christmas past. "The American consumer is trading downward in the most dramatic fashion ever seen," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting firm. What's more, the thrift mind-set has seeped into all income levels. Saks Fifth Avenue, for instance, had a 16.6% drop in sales in October. "Saving is cool right now," says Candace Corlett, president of WSL. "Conspicuous consumption is out, and people have lost their passion to buy." (See pictures...
...Obamas are bigger than the Cyruses, and the ironies are plenty. That fashion glossies, which once rarely had cover models of color, would be jockeying for photo shoots with Michelle. That a TV business with long-standing diversity issues would be fascinated with this family's values. And that a still white-dominated press would look to a black man to boost its bottom line, fix the economy and save the planet. But will he still have time to take the kids to school when he's done? Tune in next week and find...
Retail sales are also softening. Raphael le Masne, executive chairman of Shanghai Tang, says that the high-end fashion retailer began to experience modest declines in sales from early October, especially due to fewer high-spending tourists and travelers in the city. On some days in November, Shanghai Tang's boutiques in the ritzy Central district generated half the sales they had one year ago. "Things are deteriorating by the day," le Masne says...