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...surprisingly, the mayhem has become a hot issue in elections scheduled for Oct. 1, when Brazilians vote for their President as well as state and other federal leaders. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a veteran left-wing labor leader, looks set for a second term. Ferréz, a prominent local writer whose latest novel, In São Paulo Nobody Is Innocent, was published last month, treats the prospect with guarded pleasure at best. "Lula opened a dialogue with the people," says Ferréz. "But I'm not sure that will make a difference...
...Umbrellas are selling about three or four times as quickly as they usually are," said Monica Ferr, a salesperson at the Coop's men's furnishings department...
Ferry, meanwhile, had a career free throw percentage of 85.7 percent entering this season. That placed him fourth nationally among Division I seniors. Ferr however, is shooting just 84 percent from the line this year, so he could conceivably drop from the top five by the end of his career...
Will customers understand the Ferré lapel that eases down to the waist and folds over like a scarf? How about that Comme des Garçons dress-is that the armhole or the neckband, and where does all that damned draping go? Do clients want to be elegant and easy with Armani, gilded with Lagerfeld, transported by Miyake to some astral plane where clothes, craft and fine art all cozy up? Do they want to stay with the hard, somber shades of the past few seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they...
With those numbers somewhere in mind, and operating with a psychic sketch of their collective clientele that is approximately as accurate as a police composite ("The average customer will never understand that," said Kaplan, dismissing one particularly intricate Ferré blouse), the buyers run through the racks of clothes. If it can be said to exist at all, fashion sense is an amalgam of taste, whim, herd instinct and anxiety. Buying clothes for a store may not be a weighty responsibility, but it is a significant one. By determining what parts of a collection are bought, and in what quantity...