Word: menswear
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...place 200 years in the future--the costumes, with all their space-age kinkiness, seem to have parallels almost straight off the runways. For fall 2003, the Milan design house Costume National is offering up a number of shiny, black leather ensembles that echo Trinity's outfit. For his menswear collection, Michael Kors sent down the catwalks a leather duster not unlike the one sported by Morpheus. The rubber suit worn in Reloaded by Monica Bellucci, as well as the leather pantsuit apparently molded onto Jada Pinkett Smith, also seems familiar in the 21st century, albeit primarily from the pages...
...million in sales. Now her perfume, GLOW by J. Lo, is the best-selling fragrance at Macy's. Lopez wasn't the first music star to lure her fans to retail--her ex-boyfriend, hip-hop artist and producer P. Diddy, is behind the high-end Sean John menswear line. But soon a horde of other entertainers will start angling for a spot on the racks...
...Rapper-actor Ice-T's ICEWEAR will go on sale in the fall. With knit tops starting at $40, it's street-credible menswear at a lower price tag than Sean John...
...proved he was also a thoroughly American male. As many a wife and mother will attest, Thoreau's wariness toward fashion is a gender trait that persists to this day. But as frustrating as male shopping avoidance may be for women, their angst is nothing compared with that of menswear manufacturers and retailers...
...apparel were down 7% last year from the year before. Sales of women's apparel were down as well, 6.7%. But $89.3 billion was spent on women's clothing, while only $50.9 billion was spent on men's, according to the market-research firm NPDFashionworld. The perennially smaller menswear figures have been exacerbated in recent years by a sluggish economy and the switch to casual dress at work. While a high-quality man's suit, with its attendant tie and shirt, starts at $400, a pair of khakis and a polo shirt can be had for $100. Though the garment...