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...movie audience has been on a post-Lenten fast lately. Last weekend's total take at the domestic box office was only $77.7 million - a most unlucky number for the studios dumping their clearance-sale titles on an apathetic market. For filmgoers, this was the purge before the binge. A heady month is ahead, with Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ready to pick the public's pockets. And this weekend: Spider-Man 3, which on its own is guaranteed to top last weekend's cume. Anything under a $100 million launch would...
...Shanghai's architectural history-an East-West hybrid combining the modest sturdiness of a Chinese trading town with the showier Art Deco ambitions of the foreigners who began descending in the 19th century-is fast disappearing. Helping us remember this remarkable urban legacy before the last of the wrecking crews strikes is Canadian photographer Greg Girard, a longtime resident of China's largest metropolis, whose new book Phantom Shanghai was published last month. Many of the historic buildings that Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos...
...Europe, H&M has a formula that works. "We offer the best value for your money," says H&M chairman Stefan Persson. H&M is synonymous with the concept of "fast fashion"--trendy clothes at prices so low that the clothes are all but disposable. While the styles may be impulse buys, the company has maintained a disciplined, conservative approach to expansion that has turned H&M into Europe's second largest retailer in little more than a decade. Today H&M has 1,400 stores in 28 countries, including 114 in the U.S.; there it is still a small...
...locations in luxurious shopping centers, marketing itself as a rival to designers like Armani. Inditex's regional sales for its 59 Asian stores last year amounted to $1.1 billion, or 9% of the company's revenue, up from 7.5% in 2005. The Spanish company is often credited with inventing fast fashion, a business model that moves garments from the design table to stores quickly. Zara's clothing designers work closely with factories on the back end and marketers on the front end to deliver new products, replenishing merchandise every two weeks. Inditex introduced more than 30,000 designs last year...
...other day, at my weekly counseling session, the psychiatrist asked me what some of my coping techniques were. I thought for a minute and then replied, “Sometimes, when I’m lonely, I hold my pee-pee, really fast.” As the fourteen other students in my Tuesday afternoon Core section turned their faces away in disgust, the TF explained to me that this was not therapy, and that I had to leave Sever 102 immediately. As I walked through the Yard, I looked forward to an afternoon of warming myself by the giant...