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Roberto Cavalli isn't the only fashion company doing well in a shaky economy. Coach, Burberry, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara and Yves Saint Laurent are all selling well. So what's the magic formula for getting customers in the door in dire times...
...Four years ago everyone was following a formula," says J.P. Morgan's luxury goods analyst Sagra de Rosen. "Now all successful companies have remarkably different business models. There's no one rule...
...classmates, we had to be sort of like soldiers on the frontlines, and we couldn’t focus on the slights or the hurts or the difficulties, because we would not have made it through,” Hope says. “It became part of our formula for success, but it wasn’t a true picture, and it wasn’t as good as really sitting down and finally leveling with ourselves, and then with others...
Most of the album mines that song’s orchestral, cinematic formula to successful effect. What is surprising, however, is that Dougan sings on most of the tracks. His gravelly, expressive voice sounds like a mix of Nick Cave and Tom Waits, and the album often sounds oddly like one of Cave’s dark records set to heavily processed electronic beats...
...latest entry, Shanghai Knights, doesn't mess with the Jackie Chan Hollywood formula. It teams him with a goofy American?Owen Wilson here, Chris Tucker in Rush Hour?who sasses his way into predicaments that Chan must get him out of. Knights, like its predecessor Shanghai Noon, is a western, the U.S. equivalent of the Qing dynasty martial-arts films that made Chan famous back home. Wilson's Roy O'Bannion is the self-legendizing cowboy, and Chan's Chon Wang (sounds like John Wayne) is essentially Roy's stern Indian sidekick. That's apt, since, when...