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...Kors has the perfect personality for mainstream retail. He is a former child actor who was nicknamed Chuckles for his sense of humor. He started in the business designing clothes and windows for a small shop in New York City. Before long he was selling his line to Bergdorf Goodman. Not your typical fashion prince, Kors calls himself a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of guy--a bit, you might even say, like Ralph and Calvin--and is more gossipy gadabout than aloof designer. He is known for leading his ladies-who-lunch customers into the fitting room and genially...
...most of Vegas agrees that the casinos will eventually find a way to bring the strip clubs inside. "It's guaranteed. It's just a matter of when," says Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, 64, whose municipal duties cover just a a small part of town north of the Strip called Glitter Gulch, a technicality that does not stop him from representing everyone anywhere near Vegas. A former defense attorney for alleged mobsters, Goodman was voted in for a second term by 86% of the voters and can't believe the other 14% actually exist. In his office...
...Goodman, a spokesman for Bombay Sapphire Gin, which sponsors monthly "martinis with the mayor" events, is a proponent of allowing strippers in the casinos as well as expanding legalized prostitution, now allowed in certain parts of Nevada. "We're the fastest-growing everything," the mayor says in his office, flipping through the endless escort section of the phone book. "We may as well be the fastest-growing escort service." His city is growing so quickly that an Internal Revenue Service building is being constructed downtown right near his office. "We'll be able to tax the IRS," he says, "which...
Retirees and people with a second home like the condos because they are easy to maintain, but a surprising number of locals buy apartments so they can be close to what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water...
...stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And downtown is building a giant furniture showroom that hopes to steal business from San Francisco and maybe even North Carolina. Mayor Goodman hopes that in the future people will think of Vegas for gambling, sex and furniture...