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Target continues to bring high-end designers to the masses, this time with Thomas O'Brien's Vintage Modern home furnishings and accessories collection. He may not be a household name yet, but O'Brien, left, has the résumé to become "the next big thing"--he designed interiors for his former employer, Ralph Lauren, and he founded the ultracool design store, Aero Studios. Vintage Modern, which hits stores in October, has more than 500 retrosimple pieces, from stickers for $1.99 to a two-door chest for $499.99. By Betsy Kroll...
...stories rely much more on the social-button-pushing aspects of the movie. In the second episode, the shop's gentrifying Chicago neighborhood gets a franchise of a black rap star's clothing chain called Niggaz. (The chain, the narration explains, is "the value-priced version of his high-end store, Uppity Niggaz, in Beverly Hills.") One character argues that the store empowers black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie (Barry Shabaka Henley, reprising Cedric's character) scoffs that young people know the term from rap videos, while he knows it from Klan rallies, at which...
...buffer repairman, Maytag has been selling the same idea--we're the old reliable--even as consumers' tastes shifted toward more sophisticated products. That left an opening for specialty lines from GE and Whirlpool and upstarts like LG and Samsung. Thanks to stylish marketing, those brands are synonymous with high-end, high-quality products. LG has a deal to sell its products in Home Depot, Samsung at Lowe's. Maytag just lost its space at Best Buy to Whirlpool. Who needs nostalgia when you've got cool...
...cigarettes and the gold-plated lighters. Long before Dunhill became associated with that guilty pleasure, it encouraged another: the love affair with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill?who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor"?retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling...
...cigarettes and the gold-plated lighters. Long before Dunhill became associated with that guilty pleasure, it encouraged another: the love affair with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill - who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor" - retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling...