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...Middle-class Indians are still hesitant about spending in malls because they think prices are higher here," adds Sanjay Singh, owner of Chikankari, a garment store in Noida's Centrestage Mall. Singh acknowledges that he has to pay more for rent and electricity than if his store were outside a mall?but like most retailers, he denies that he bumps up his prices to cover this added cost. Still, many Indians are convinced that mall-based stores charge more, so they tend to keep their wallets closed. According to KSA Technopak, the "conversion rate"?the percentage of visitors who turn...
Bryant has been a center of attention since he waltzed into the NBA out of high school. He wore his fame like an itchy turtleneck, never quite comfortable in it, yet never wanting to remove the celebrity garment. Teammates described him as an aloof, immature superstar. His on-court clash with personable big man Shaquille O'Neal over who would be the Alpha Laker poisoned the team's season more than the trial...
...Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct was to protect his wares, but then he, too, turned and ran for his life...
...hushed Oslo nightclub, a woman takes the stage in a black burqa, the all-enveloping garment conservative Muslim women wear in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The woman's arms and hips begin to sway to the sound of a Norwegian folk song. It's a strange spectacle: a vision of conservative Islam in front of a liberal Western audience. "Personally," says a voice from behind the veil, "I think it's a drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes...
...music," says Marshal Cohen, senior analyst at NPDFashion World. That's where the Web company, based in Secaucus, N.J., steps in. eFashion helps with image work too. Silano Foy--who, like her husband, is a former Calvin Klein exec--sits down with Kimora Lee Simmons to review each garment displayed on Baby Phat's site. In the corner of eFashion's warehouse are two mannequins, one for Rocawear's Web shots, the other for J. Lo's. (The latter has the bigger derriere...