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Thanks to Karl Lagerfeld, things just got a little bit sweeter for shoppers with champagne tastes and a beer budget. Lagerfeld, 65-the design genius behind Chanel, Fendi and his own Lagerfeld Gallery line-is hooking up with Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). Lagerfeld is the latest prestige designer to join the "masstige" trend, in which brand names like Isaac Mizrahi and Todd Oldham dream up affordable products for mass-market chains...
...prestige designer to join the hot "masstige" trend, in which brand names like Isaac Mizrahi and Todd Oldham dream up affordable products for mass-market chains like Target. Lagerfeld, 65--the design genius behind Chanel, Fendi and his own Lagerfeld Gallery line--is hooking up with Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz...
...year-old girls, are becoming must-haves for women 10 times that age. Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada are among the fashion powers touting the look in recent collections, tying ribbons onto blouses, dresses and shoes. Popular downmarket retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) and other mainstream mall outlets have also appropriated the ribbon theme for everything from belts to tank tops. Whether tying them in bows or leaving them to dangle like streamers, designers use these broad bands in every color--including, of course, basic black. "Details like ribbons make women feel playful...
...past five years American companies such as Starbucks, Old Navy and Disney have opened busy stores in Harlem--the historic African-American neighborhood in upper Manhattan that is enjoying a rebirth following a decades-long economic slump. Last month H&M (Hennes & Mauritz), the Swedish chain that specializes in reasonably priced but trendy fashions, became the first foreign apparel retailer to join the migration north from midtown. Says Karen Belva, an H&M spokeswoman: "We're new to the U.S., and to be part of something that's up-and-coming is good for us, imagewise. And our prices...
That decade was one of firsts; the 1920s was a decade of bests, as Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic...