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...spotted in J. Mendel dresses; Teri Hatcher and Kyra Sedgwick wore them to the Emmys. J. Mendel has also become a staple of the young New York social set, the more stylishly daring though no less moneyed offspring of the company's former mainstay clients. As Mendel explains the label's exploding profile in the past two years: ?I've gone from dressing the mothers to the daughters...
...opened the Madison Avenue store, taking over chief design duties for the label from his father, who still runs the Paris shop. The younger Mendel, however, wouldn't mind if the company, still privately held, lost the family management by being bought by a fashion conglomerate. ?I'd like to do accessories, bags, shoes,? he says. ?I'd also have a more global reach. For that, I need additional backing.? His timing seems perfect...
...DECONSTRUCTED Thanks to designers like Alber Elbaz at Lanvin and Consuelo Castiglione from Marni, all that is slightly unraveled now looks chic. The Canadian luxury label Ports 1961 takes its inspiration from the worn-in look of a global traveler?albeit one who stops in exotic locales. Costume-jewelry designer Roxanne Assoulin is selling out of her slightly rough-around-the-edges ribbon-and-crystal necklaces for Lee Angel...
...CIAO! CIAO!? It's lunchtime in Milan, Italy, when most Milanese traditionally settle into a nice plate of risotto. But inside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store on Via della Spiga, the mood is frantic, with shoppers young and old slapping down credit cards for the label's signature $2,900 pin-striped pantsuits and $3,500 fur-trimmed coats. It seems there are not enough salespeople to handle the traffic, so Alberto Addis, the store's visual merchandiser, is lending a hand, greeting two women who have wandered past the acres of shiny black-glass walls and Murano-glass...