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Adams and Sprenger share an intuitive ability to foresee how a garment or object will best play for the store. They know their customers?or "guests," as they quaintly refer to them?better than anyone. The designers they partner with, themselves unassailable control freaks and not always familiar with the vagaries of large-scale production, are inclined to see their point. "It's like a whole new world to figure out," admits McCollough. "Target interested me because they are more mass market than my company," says Sarafpour. Exposure in 1,494 stores, as well as royalties, doesn't hurt either...
...says. "There were definite class distinctions depending on where you lived. People next to the park who got a breeze in summer were considered wealthy. All of our rooms faced walls or the backs of houses." Simon's father Irving, like the father in the trilogy, worked in the garment industry. Recalls Simon: "Like Willy Loman, he learned to ingratiate himself with his customers. He wasn't a particularly bright man and had only a grade-school education. I remember him as being a great laugher, a great audience...
...events where students can get their party on. Nor is Petrich a stranger to the pages of FM. She designs her own clothes, and she won FM’s Project Runway Challenge by constructing a sassy backless dress and matching jacket out of less than $8 worth of Garment District trash-turned-treasure. Post-graduation, Petrich hopes to work creatively, although she isn’t sure how. “I’m a little bit all over the place,” she says, “but I’m definitely not worried about...
...other hand, girls’ schools have created fertile learning spaces for their students. Girls from single sex institutions are more likely to study math and science, to study advanced placement subjects, and to study, period. Presumably they spend less time attending to grooming and garment selection. (According to one survey, girls at a single sex school estimated they saved 45 minutes a day when they began attending a single sex school and wearing uniforms...
...involved besides the basic sleeve and collar. That's because the tailors in Pink's Ireland shop start with their regular retail-base model and then build out with the customized choices. It's like Pimp My Shirt. But since I was interested in finding someone to make a garment that hugged my contours as well as satisfied my whims, I headed to Seize sur Vingt, a small men's boutique that promised to make me a shirt from scratch...