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...When Washington, D.C., pimp Jaron Brice recruited a 14-year-old Maryland girl, he first took her to the back of his purple Chevrolet Caprice and played the 1998 HBO documentary "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," according to prosecutor Sharon Marcus-Kurn, who got Brice convicted in federal court earlier this month for sex trafficking of a minor and other related charges. The film, testified the girl, taught her the terms of her new relationship with her pimp: she would have sex with men ("tricks") at a specific block ("the track") and hand over all the money she made ("break...
...SHOE SENSEI According to Hersh, all of L.A.'s serious shoppers have their shoes preselected for them by Lisa Case at Neiman Marcus. "She doesn't work the floor. She's behind the scenes, pulling shoes for her clients." This season it's a pair of chocolate brown distressed-leather Manolo Blahniks...
...Stardust period, featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly...
...Stardust period - featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But, as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly." Indeed they are. No sooner had Simons shown a winning combination of severe, boxy jackets over skinny pants and crisp white shirts, heralding a kind of cleansing of the fashion palette - dominated for so long by embellishment and color - than Giannini...
Lundgren, a retail veteran and onetime CEO of Neiman Marcus, wants to do that by changing the look and feel of department-store shopping. On his agenda: broader aisles (managers will be assigned 32-in. rulers or measuring tapes to make sure they leave at least that much space), less cluttered departments (15% of display racks will be removed), upgraded fitting rooms (with plasma-screen TVs in the waiting area), stores that are easier to navigate ("way finding" signs will guide shoppers) and more help looking up prices (at least 35 bar-code readers in every store). The changes...