Word: flagships
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Inside Louis Vuitton's sleek flagship store on New York City's Fifth Avenue, customers are ogling the now ubiquitous Murakami Speedy, a monogram handbag that sells for $1,500 and is carried by such A-list celebs as J. Lo and Reese Witherspoon. Four blocks south, the same bag--or what looks like it, anyway--can be had for $35. A California woman, in town with her fiance last week, was spotted perusing a table stacked with fake Vuitton, Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs handbags. She was looking for a new Vuitton bag because the strap...
...like how he was able to come off as the flagship of the Democratic Party,” Velasquez said. “That’s not easy with so many other luminaries...
Despite the influx of big spenders, Macau is still a far cry from America's glamorous Sin City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon Stanley Ho, 82, who failed to fully modernize even his flagship Hotel Lisboa. In the run-up to the 1999 handover, rival loan sharks inspired many of the turf wars in the gangster-ridden colony. Violence escalated to the point that in 1997 Macau's Secretary of Security reassured tourists that they were unlikely to get caught in the crossfire because the city had "professional killers...
Patrick's challenge is to find a way to regain the confidence of advertisers, many of whom have abandoned Martha Stewart Living, the company's flagship magazine. Ad revenue dropped 54% in the first quarter, and over the past 18 months the magazine has lost about 500,000, or 22%, of its subscribers. In an impassioned statement delivered outside the New York City courthouse where she heard her sentence, Stewart made a sales pitch on behalf of her "beloved company." Standing in a sober black suit with her daughter Alexis behind her, she thanked fans for sending thousands of letters...
...opened the Sands Macao in May. Despite the influx of big spenders, Macau is still a far cry from America's glamorous Sin City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon Stanley Ho, 82, who failed to fully modernize even his flagship Hotel Lisboa. In the run-up to the 1999 handover, rival loan sharks inspired many of the turf wars in the gangster-ridden colony. Violence escalated to the point that in 1997 Macau's Secretary of Security reassured tourists that they were unlikely to get caught in the crossfire because...