Word: leathering
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...high-end customers seek top-quality fabrics and subtle trims and detailing but expect children's clothing?even expensive children's clothing?to cost significantly less than their own. And there are fewer opportunities for high-margin add-ons. Even the most precocious Bonpoint customers have little need for leather handbags, although the current management has high hopes for developing perfumes and skin-treatment lines...
...meets fashion in Graeme Black's new collection. Inspired by a visit to English abstract artist Barbara Hepworth's studio, the duo?interior designer Jonathan Reed and Graeme Black, head of women's ready-to-wear at Salvatore Ferragamo?uses cotton poplin and leather in white and tan to echo Hepworth's sculptures. And silk dresses come in soft aqua and green pastels like the colors in her paintings, giving new meaning to the phrase wearable...
...abandon his nuclear-weapons program. Now, the U.S. hopes, it's hitting Kim where it really hurts. Following a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the export of luxury goods to North Korea, last week the U.S. published a list of some 60 forbidden fruits, including iPods, Segway scooters, cognac, leather handbags, silk underwear, plasma TVs, baby grand pianos, jetskis, snowmobiles and eau de toilette. It's not just an attempt to personally aggravate the Dear Leader, who enjoys a notoriously plush lifestyle even while many of his countrymen starve. Cutting off the supply of expensive gifts Kim lavishes upon high...
...Libertine. Platinum is the new Marie-Antoinette. Leather is the new luxury. Veiling is the new seduction. Dior is the new Erotica.” Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano’s words sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words—shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness...
...1899’s “The Rough Riders” by Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880. For those with more modest budgets, one bookseller displayed moderately priced pop-up books. Whether looking to pick up a studious, studly intellectual, or just hoping to supplement your library of leather-bound books, Boston’s International Antiquarian Fair has you covered. Well, maybe next year...