Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most prominent local emporium, Neiman-Marcus, says no to the last, but to all those other questions their buyers would probably like to have one collective answer. It would be much the same answer that Bloomingdale's or Saks Fifth Avenue or Bergdorf Goodman might give to anyone who asks, and it is an answer that has very little to do with a store's size. Small, sharp, selective boutiques all over the country, from Maxfield in Los Angeles to Alan Bilzerian in Boston, would reply the same way as the behemoth down the block: the customers should...
...same shows and held down desk space in the same sales offices, as they all dropped a bundle and bought the line. Then they all went home to endure the inevitable surprises when the shipments arrive several months later. "There's not a buyer alive," says Neiman-Marcus Senior Vice President Marilyn...
...corner of the marketplace. Numbers take on even greater weight closer to the hot center. Consider: a big chain like Bloomingdale's will spend somewhere around $10 million on designer apparel in Europe; a store like Maxfield, which is probably one-sixtieth the size of the smallest Neiman-Marcus outlet, may be good for $1 million. (These amounts do not include the budgets for nondesigner or private-label goods, nor do they take into account the money spent in the U.S. when the big-name New York City fashion shows get under way next week.) There were 400 American...
...Neiman-Marcus left behind 55% of its budget in Paris, 35% in Milan. Using those figures as a general guideline, it is fair to assume that the squadrons of American buyers dropped something near $75 million on the fashion capitals of Europe this spring...
...years Jesse Jackson has stood in front of high school audiences and led them in psychological cheers: "I am . . . somebody!" The theme is not original with Jackson. Marcus Garvey, for example, thundered the idea: "Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will!" That is a perfectly American thought, although usually addressed to individuals, not races. The U.S. has always been an immense struggle of the wills of the people who came here, a struggle of cultural and moral energy and discipline. The American Indians' story represents an immense tragedy, a catastrophic demoralization, almost a cultural extinction. Then...