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...Opening Ceremony in New York, the owners' idiosyncratic, personal touch has also proved recession-friendly. In their SoHo boutique, Berkeley grads Umberto Leon and Carol Lim collaborate with designers to offer the truly unique. This fall Chloë Sevigny will launch a menswear collection. And Pendleton, the 100-year-old heritage brand that is a favorite Salvation Army find, will get an update at the shop. Confederacy's Urbinati sums up the trend best: "We have to be original to catch people's attention...
...number of style-savvy musicians, including Kanye West and Beth Ditto of the Gossip, who have channeled their love of designer labels into their own designer products. Ronson teamed up with Gucci creative director Frida Giannini to design a series of limited-edition shoes to coincide with the launch of Gucci Icon-Temporary, a traveling pop-up sneaker store that will make its first stop in New York City next month. Two new Ronson creations, incorporating the brand's classic GG logo, will be introduced at each stop of the tour, including London, Berlin and Tokyo...
Citing economic uncertainties this winter, the University once again pushed back capital campaign plans, which had called for a tentative 2011 launch date, despite relatively stable alumni donations at the time. Gift receipts from December fell just 2 percent relative to the same month...
...purpose of the 9/11 attacks was not simply to kill Americans. Rather, the attacks formed part of bin Laden's strategy to launch a global Islamist revolution aimed at ending U.S. influence in Muslim countries, overthrowing regimes there allied with Washington and putting al-Qaeda at the head of a global Islamist insurgency whose objective was to restore the caliphate that had once ruled territory stretching from Moorish Spain through much of Asia. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...with big-ticket IPOs like those of Adani Power and National Hydro Electric Power Corp. falling below their launch prices last week, and smaller entrants like Excel Infoways and Mahindra Holidays and Resorts continuing to trade below listing prices, retail investors are turning wary. The latest IPO, that of state-run Oil India which closed Sept. 10, saw a relatively muted retail response, say investment bankers, with most of the interest coming from institutional buyers. "We've invested very selectively in the companies that have come to markets post elections," says Sukumar Rajah, chief investment officer at Franklin Templeton Mutual...