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...have the designers. Fashion houses with distinctive personalities have been able to hew their brands to consumers' bottoms. Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Versace have all successfully introduced their own line of jeans, with couture prices to match ($100 and up). Last year Calvin Klein, no stranger to America's hips, spun his jeans and sportswear empire into $470 million in sales for licensee Designer Holdings...
...Versace standards, the celebrity quotient at last week's spring ready-to-wear show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being critical...
...inventors of the Jaipur foot seem a mismatched pair. Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, 70, an orthopedic surgeon, is a fellow of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, while his collaborator, an artisan named Ram Chandra, reached only the fourth grade in Jaipur. Their paths first crossed more than 30 years ago at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur. There, Sethi was helping his orthopedic patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and Chandra was teaching lepers to make handicrafts...
...that proved a prescription for turmoil, as the changes confused customers and department buyers alike. For example, Donna Karan's DKNY line of sportswear had been in Nordstrom's cutting-edge Savvy shops since 1989 and was now a candidate for golden oldie. So Nordstrom moved DKNY to the Individualist section, a much larger space for career women, and switched other labels from there to still another section. The changes rippled through the stores like rows of tumbling dominoes, and the resulting disruption surprised the new management team. "We underestimated the problems of shifting things around," Nordstrom says. "We just...
Disenchantment like that mocks the company's goal of serving shoppers through a lifetime of wardrobe changes. The ideal Nordstrom customer may begin by buying turtlenecks and T shirts as a teenager and graduate to a $1,800 Donna Karan suit or a $3,000 Valentino gown as the years go on. And, oh, the convenience! Salesclerks are free to go from department to department to help you pick out a head-to-toe ensemble. Nordstrom salespeople average an industry-leading $29,000 a year in base pay and commissions and are regarded as entrepreneurs with their own clientele...