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...molten dip is turning up at all sorts of swank spots, including San Francisco's Luna Park, Los Angeles' Vine and New York City's Chateau. Ohba, a fusion restaurant in Chicago, serves lobster tempura with Brie fondue. And in London, celebs such as Kate Moss and Stella McCartney are regulars at the Tiroler Hut, where the fondue is served by women dressed like Heidi. --L.McL...
...jumping-off point for war but also as a locus of beaches, shopping and spas. He wants Kuwait to be cool. So he keeps fashion folk interested with events he knows are irresistible to them: Prada caftans! A T-shirt collaboration of British artist Gary Hume and Stella McCartney! Cappellini furniture, reconceived by fashion designers...
...celebrity designers? Many have responded by acquiring the smaller brands, a trick they learned from the beauty business, in which the conglomerate Estee Lauder, for example, bought out M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown in the mid-'90s. Between December 2000 and July 2001, the Gucci Group snapped up Stella McCartney, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Then there are individual specialty lines: Gucci has issued a series of made-to-measure handbags, and Bottega Veneta designer Thomas Maier offers custom-order services...
...test this thesis, I persuaded Stella McCartney, fashion designer and daughter of Sir Paul McCartney, to let me work as a salesperson in her Manhattan store for a day. I chose Stella for several reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that I live a quarter-mile from her store. But apparently Stella has really nice clothes, nearly all of which cost more than $40, my official price ceiling for any article of clothing...
...think the deal is that Stella McCartney is young and hippie-ish and laid back, and she gets the staff to be that way too, though I'm not entirely sure how this is accomplished by a five-page booklet on paradox. But the friendliness of the staff makes the customers feel unguarded, more relaxed and more likely to open their wallets. Other stores are stuck in a cycle of cruelty, like some horrible dysfunctional marriage. Speaking of which, I inadvertently mentioned the 60%-off sale to my wife. Three days and $600 later, I became the worst-paid sales...