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...about $100. The brand's Oxford Circus flagship store in London - which, at 90,000 sq. ft., is one of the biggest fashion retail spaces in the world, is a favorite pit stop for celebs like Chloë Sevigny, Keira Knightley and Kirsten Dunst. In New York City, Green and his team of 17 designers plan to stock the 25,000-sq.-ft. retail space with 200 to 300 new styles every two weeks. That's a superspeedy rotation given the fact that most U.S. fast-fashion companies restock on a six- to 10-week schedule, while European competitors like...
...opening of its first outposts in the U.S. and Japan, the 45-year-old Topshop chain now has a presence in 31 countries - with 2,400 stores worldwide, 300 of them in the U.K. - and expansion into three or four more countries is under discussion. Although nothing is confirmed, Green hopes the New York City flagship will be the first of perhaps a dozen stores in the U.S. "I've studied America for a while," he said confidently. "We'll get some things right and some wrong." (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...What Green, who was knighted in 2006 for his contributions to the retail business, is hoping will set the fast-fashion chain apart from the competition will be the daily updated merchandise, the high-fashion quotient and the customer service, which includes free personal shoppers. Customers can call ahead for an appointment with a "style adviser" in the store or have a selection of up-to-the-minute merchandise brought to their home for free. Not too shabby, but the question remains: Will London street style play on Broadway...
With Earth Day just around the corner, The Charles Hotel is planting some green of its own by decreasing parking rates for compact cars in its garage. Starting April 22, The Charles Hotel will debut the nanoMAX small car detection system, which will gauge the size of vehicles and automatically encode the information onto the dispensed parking tickets. To reward drivers who choose environmentally-friendly vehicles, compact cars will receive a discounted rate. Normal and oversized cars will not see an increase in parking fees. “We’re constantly looking for ways to make contributions...
...stands now, energy-price hikes are unavoidable under most of the climate-change plans swirling around Congress, including the draft introduced Tuesday by House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman and Representative Ed Markey, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. (See the top 10 green stories...