Word: high-fashion
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...Neil Munn says the denizens of Madison Avenue and Soho aren't competing with clients, they're creating products that their market research indicated consumers wanted but couldn't buy. For example, Zag started Dogside, a line of high-fashion dog accessories (with Bella, the labradoodle of supermodel Elle MacPherson, enlisted as its face), because it determined there were no dominant brands in that sector. Some agencies began creating brands before the recession, but the trend has picked up steam as a severe ad slump has forced them to explore alternatives to the traditional fee-based business model...
Casting about for some bright ideas for fall, several European designers landed on a good one: the great outdoors. How else to explain the gaiters paired with heels at Fendi, the duck boots at Hogan or the scene at Prada?where models stomped out in high-heeled, high-fashion leather versions of Wellington boots and waders chic enough to keep a real angler current...
Whatever its origin, the Labor Day rule has perennially met with resistance from high-fashion quarters. As far back as the 1920s, Coco Chanel made white a year-round staple. "It was a permanent part of her wardrobe," says Bronwyn Cosgrave, author of The Complete History of Costume & Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. The trend is embraced with equal vigor by today's fashion élites, Cosgrave notes - from Marion Cotillard accepting her 2008 Academy Award in a mermaid-inspired cream dress to Michelle Obama dancing the inaugural balls away in a snowy floor-length gown. Fashion...
...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 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, here the power was passing to younger hands. It was now top hats, high-fashion; it was incredible. The President and his brother Robert were in this open reviewing stand, and it was 28 degrees, and Ms. Kennedy stayed for about an hour and then decided, "It's too cold for me, I'm going home," and went back to the White House. Smart woman. [Laughs.] (See pictures of JFK's early years...