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...styles that woo fashion editors and retailers don't always win over customers (like the high-waisted trousers for adults touted by women's magazines last fall). But the latest preppy trend is catching on with teens. Marshal Cohen, chief apparel analyst at the NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., market-research firm, estimates that about $80 of the average $300 that each student spends on back-to-school clothes will go to preppier, more conservative apparel. No, teens are not gathering to burn their low-rider jeans, but waistlines are inching back up, and Argyle sweaters and plaid skirts...
Contrary to recent reports in the Indian press, Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, will not be speaking at Harvard this September, according to Harvard University Marshal Jackie O’Neill...
...when he sold his name to the U.S. department store J.C. Penney and launched a less expensive collection. Next month Oscar de la Renta will introduce a new moderate line, O Oscar, that will retail for less than $100. "We're certainly going to see more of this," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst for NPD Group, a New York-based trend-tracking firm. "I wouldn't be surprised if we saw [other stores] doing something like this. Lots of stores want to get into this midmarket...
What rapper-actor-designer wants to deal with IP addresses, anyway? "Anyone would have questions about setting up websites, especially someone whose main job is to record hit music," says Marshal Cohen, senior analyst at NPDFashion World. That's where the Web company, based in Secaucus, N.J., steps in. eFashion helps with image work too. Silano Foy--who, like her husband, is a former Calvin Klein exec--sits down with Kimora Lee Simmons to review each garment displayed on Baby Phat's site. In the corner of eFashion's warehouse are two mannequins, one for Rocawear's Web shots...
...There was, the marshal admits, one incident that did concern him: when one of the group came from the back of the plane forward to use the lavatory in First Class. The FAM timed the man, dressed in a green jumpsuit with Arabic writing on it; he stayed about ten minutes in the toilet. Immediately after the man returned to the back to the plane, the FAM searched the washroom and found nothing. In contrast to Jacobsen's version, the FAM said at no time did any people congregate near the First Class bathroom...