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...fashionista will tell you, the winter sale season is the perfect time to buy basic boots?the kind that defy the passing of seasons and trends. You pay less, without having to worry whether they'll remain cutting edge a year down the road. Here are our top five picks for boots that will see you through the next few years. The prices are from the height of the autumn season: now, you should look for discounts...
KILLICK DATTA Footwear Fashionista Having had a foot in Nike and L.A. Gear, Datta, 43, hit the ground running when he opened his own shoe firm in 1996. Global Brand Marketing Inc. (GBMI), where the Indian-born Datta is CEO, last year sold $140 million worth of shoes bearing the Nautica, Diesel and Mecca brands in 130 countries. The company matched those sales again this year--within the first six months. GBMI is reviving the Pony marque and next summer will open four stores to sell its own brand and accompanying accessories, like handbags...
...likely the vagaries of consumer impulse will continue to befuddle the best prognosticators at least some of the time. No matter how much data suggest otherwise, a nervous mother of two may get roped into riding a roller coaster and discover a new passion for risk. A stilettoed fashionista might wobble into Wal-Mart. Some things will always be unpredictable...
...will take more than a fashionista's cold shoulder to dissuade Verber. She left St. Petersburg in 1976 when she was only 18 and made her way to Rome and Toronto, working in boutiques and other fashion-related jobs, before returning to Russia to join Mercury...
This new genre, like America itself, received most of its seed from overseas--the BBC's cruel-to-be-kind hit What Not to Wear, now in reruns on BBC America. "There are things not even your best friends will tell you" about how you look, say fashionista inquisitors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. "But we're not your best friends. And we will." For instance, those track pants make your rear end look like a watermelon. Your overtight bra makes you look as if you have four breasts. And that casual outfit is "a little bit Mr. Garbage Collector...