Word: gingham
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...show costs around $40,000 - to show off clothing they don't expect anyone to buy. But runway shows aren't intended to sell individual items; they're about publicity, prestige and the overall feel of a designer's collection. Every seasonal collection has a theme - nautical, rustic, Victorian, gingham, clowns - that is later translated into more wearable items sold in boutiques and department stores. The colors, fabrics and overall aesthetic will remain true to the collection, but most of the more bizarre features - like the time Isaac Mizrahi sent his models down the runway with purses on their heads...
...Junya Watanabe Man brown tweed jacket ($1,595), red-and-white gingham shirt ($380) and brown corduroy pants with leather patch pockets ($465; Comme des Garçons N.Y., 212-604-9200) 2 Loro Piana baby cashmere scarf ($775; loropiana.com 3 Alfredo Häberli for Alias Taormina chair in Kvadrat fabric ($940; aliasusa.com 4 J. Crew tweed fedora hat ($68; jcrew.com 5 Etro nylon and tweed men's bag ($1,400; etro.it) 6 Alexander Olch blue and gray herringbone tie ($160; Bergdorf Goodman Men's, 212-753-7300) 7 Harrys of London Mansion slippers ($650; San Giorgio Shoes...
...seriously. Though most of the surrounding buildings have been razed and replaced with condos, the Cambridge Historical Commission recently voted to consider the building for historical designation and protection. Today, the store’s staff is as eclectic as its merchandise. Fluorescent-haired employees scurry through feathered and gingham racks of clothes, asking each other for price checks on jumbo Afros or extra pairs of bejeweled ruby slippers, in men’s sizes. “It’s the only place I know of where you can find cute vintage purses and cheap pleather...
...career consultant who had never held an operational gig in corporate America. The $2.2 billion company, a division of the Limited Brands, instantly became a real-time laboratory for Fiske's ideas. He set about morphing the shopping-mall staple of down-home goodness and gingham into an upscale yet affordable beauty boutique--a perfect example of a new category of consumer goods that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year-old in a dark suit, is at the Hudson Hotel: he has just launched a new line of skin-care...
...back-to-school catalogs only up the anxiety. Pottery Barn Kids, with its jaunty chalkboards and gingham-lined storage bins, was the worst: "As kids' activities multiply with the start of the new school year,'' it began ominously, prompting me to think of all the kiddie activities I had yet to sign up for, "so does the need for organization.'' Organization? Until a few days ago, I didn't know what time school started or, for that matter, when the year began. I know the information's here somewhere, I thought as I rummaged through the tattered messenger...