Word: gucci
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...national implications of the race, New Jersey is suffering from some uniquely local issues that have nothing to do with Obama - like last week's arrests that involved knockoff Gucci bags, the sale of human body parts and nearly $100,000 stuffed in an Apple Jacks cereal box. While Corzine seems to be weathering this storm, he's got a long, uphill battle left to convince former supporters like Carnestahl. "I voted for Corzine last time, much to my regret," she said, smoking a cigarette outside the church. "This time around, I've yet to decide. I still need more...
...eyewear manufacturers are blind to these differences. Tom Davies is the founder of London-based firm TD Tom Davies, www.tdtomdavies.com, which specializes in custom-made, fashionable face furniture. He launched his business in 2001 after spending three years designing glasses for brands including Tom Ford, Gucci and Puma. "I was frustrated that my mass-produced frames didn't really fit anyone," he says. "I wanted to create the equivalent of a bespoke suit." That vision has earned Davies fans such as Richard Branson and Kevin Spacey. (See the best new travel products, gadgets and trends...
...still just one-fifth of the size of a store planned for New York City's Times Square, began a year ago. But he found what he was looking for, and is confident he can tap into the new Japanese frugality. "A Gucci handbag and a Forever 21 top," says Ok. "It's a way for [consumers]] to think, 'I'm smart about how to shop...
...typical weekend afternoon, Beijing's Silk Street Market buzzes with the sound of tens of thousands of tourists haggling over antiques, jewelry and knock-off Gucci handbags. Rickshaw drivers normally scoop up these marketgoers, pedal them to their hotels and return with pockets full of foreign currency - a lucrative cycle drivers can repeat dozens of times a day. In recent months, though, the Silk Street Market's once reliable bustle has thinned dramatically. "I haven't seen a single tour bus pulling into the market this morning," says Lao Qian, a 49-year-old rickshaw driver taking a long lunch...
...London on the country's southern coast to launch its campaign for re-election. Inside the city's stadium, in a pen between the stage and a sea of supporters in the ANC colors of yellow, black and green, stood the party's VIPs. Many of the men wore Gucci and the women Prada, but mixed in with them were 60 or so people, of both sexes, in combat fatigues whose camo caps identified them as veterans of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation"), the ANC's disbanded guerrilla wing. A well-dressed young man whose baseball cap announced...