Word: ferragamo
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MADRID The antifur lobby is virtually nonexistent in Spain, so designers are scoring with fox, sheared mink and textured leathers like Ferragamo's embossed calfskin jacket, above...
...spring 2001, Majed al-Sabah opened Villa Moda, a 100,000-sq.-ft. mall-cum-boutique (he calls it a "luxury bazaar") in a glass box on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The $20 million building is nearly as impressive as the swarm of big brands--Fendi, Marni, Ferragamo, Prada, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent--clustered in mini shops inside, along with a Botox bar and a traditional Middle Eastern restaurant (with nontraditional Cappellini furniture) overlooking Kuwait Bay. To make sure the opening didn't go unnoticed, al-Sabah offered members of the international fashion set free business-class flights...
...argue--and the economics have been dreadful. But for store designers, these are very good times indeed. Along the moneyed paths of Madison Avenue and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, in the Ginza and on the Via Condotti, stonemasons, carpenters, electricians and designers are assembling new sales wagons for Ferragamo, Tod's, Louis Vuitton, Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, Prada and other luxe labels. They are exquisite spaces, and they are more luxury priced than ever, now that the stores have commissioned such prizewinning architects as Rem Koolhaas and the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron...
...wait just a darn minute. Wouldn't you trade a little interaction for a little selection? "Retail comes down to how you shelve and hang things. That's all you can do," laughs Michael Gabellini, head of Gabellini Associates, who designs stores for Giorgio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ultimo and Jil Sander...
...parents, she spends at least $600 a month on clothes, drinking with friends and a serious cell-phone habit (her father once cut off her home phone for a month to teach her a lesson on the cost of things). Her most prized possession: a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo loafers. What she badly wants: a pair of Prada sneakers. On a recent shopping expedition, she eyes a white cotton DKNY skirt. Her mother steps in, telling her it is "too fancy." But by the end of the day, Choi has bagged two blue, $70 Ralph Lauren shirts. "They are fearless...