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When David Wolfe of Neiman's went to Rome to buy the extravagant furs that Karl Lagerfeld turns out for Fendi, he and his assistants practiced a serviceable combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater...
"We have to know everything that's going on," Wolfe explains later. "We could be stock-market consultants." In a sense they are, since buyers regulate the flow of merchandise that determines the rise and fall of the fashion index. Wolfe, like more and more buyers from big stores...
Furs, of course, are just a single, cushy corner of the marketplace. Numbers take on even greater weight closer to the hot center. Consider: a big chain like Bloomingdale's will spend somewhere around $10 million on designer apparel in Europe; a store like Maxfield, which is probably one...
In most superclosets, clothes are organized according to occasion, length, season, color, with separate areas for shoes, hats, handbags and furs (which ideally are kept under refrigeration). The revolving racks favored by most closetologists are adapted from those used by dry-cleaning shops. They can be oblong, E-, U-or...
The hottest ticket in Manhattan last week was printed on a white glove, but for most of the 1,500 guests who showed up for Michael Jackson's Thriller party at the American Museum of Natural History, it was strictly a hands-off evening. Almost no one got within...