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...baby-products company is experimenting with a new array of vibrant colors, fabrics and designs. It recently hired Phillippe Starck, Lulu Guinness and Burberry to design sophisticated strollers, like the Starck Buggy, which sports sleek, continuous frame lines. Its chic complementary changing bag?made of quilted black fabric with leather accents?holds Mom's or Dad's stuff but doesn't com promise elegance. Kate Spade also designed a Maclaren carriage, covered in?what else??polka dots. She sells a footed cashmere onesie and matching hat for infants, and for their mothers, baby bags that mirror Spade's signature...
...SHOES English shoemaker Barker Black is trotting Stateside. Its premiere is an ode to old British lancers, bearing the regiment's skull-and-crossbones logo. Bottega Veneta uses leather as canvas this season, perforating cotton-lined featherweight capretto lace-ups. Inspired by Andy Warhol's loafers, Paris bootmaker Berluti has patched and darned its new line...
...with one swift, delicate motion. The VTech i5871 5.8-GHz cordless phone is part of a system expandable to eight handsets using only one phone jack; other highlights include a digital answering device, color handset display and dual caller ID. And the Vertu Special Edition Ascent White has polished leather keys and soft backlighting, and can store up to 1,000 contacts and 150 texts...
...cinema in Milan that will serve as their show space and a sort of epicenter to the empire. An empire that still makes more than 58% of its revenue from ready-to-wear at a time when most luxury fashion brands make up to 80% of their profits from leather goods...
With their recent numbers, chances are very good that it will. Dolce & Gabbana leather-accessories and footwear sales rose 35% from March 2004 to March 2005, for example. ?I'm surprised people are so surprised,? Ruella says. ?To me [the impressive year-on-year rises] are quite normal. We grew in our own way. Perhaps the hard part, the fashion, we already did, and now we have to exploit the easier part. What is sure, we prefer to follow our own street...