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This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to luxury's newest ideas, products, creators and places. Our mission this time is to examine luxury's newest frontiers?from the shores of the Bosporus, where Marion Hume talked to the new generation of freewheeling Istanbullus, to the Thomas Pink store in New York City, where Josh Tyrangiel discovered the comfort of custom-made shirts. Personally, I cannot live without Paris and, more specifically, the French children's-clothing store Bonpoint?possibly the luxury sector's smallest and most promising player...
...when Susie Hilfiger saw a void in the kids' market and acquired the name of a beloved, but bankrupt, department store. "It clothed generations of children and it was the go-to resource for beautiful, classic children's clothing," explains Renfrew. That has been the company's mission since the first Best & Co.'s demise 35 years...
...recent months, the market has responded to this demand with an influx of popular brand names (Marc Jacobs and J. Crew among them). But Renfrew welcomes the competition, steadfast in her belief that the basic mission of Best & Co. will ensure the company's success. "We're singularly focused on children's clothing, and we therefore will do it best because that's all that...
...firing this summer was the first indication, and the gift tax is the first concrete issue on which Knowles’ apparent indifference toward student interests is nakedly apparent. He is treating students as just another FAS constituency rather than as a central element of FAS’ mission that deserves extra attention. This de-prioritization of undergraduates has, in the past, led to horrifying misuses of University resources. To give one stark example, the University built a library administration building on frat row (Mt. Auburn St.) and built student group offices into an old library in the Quad...
...theory, mine the stuff and ship it back to Earth. That's fine, but first we have to, well, invent the reactor. What's more, as the beleaguered crews aboard the International Space Station have discovered, sometimes just maintaining your ship can take all your time and the mission itself - scientific research, mining - gets...