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CHICAGO Calvin Klein black skinny jeans ($69)?worn by Kate Moss in the ad campaign?are the fastest mover at Macy's West...
...fire China immersion. Ports International grew into the perfect hybrid of foreign cachet and local sensibility that Chinese woman craved. Many customers believed that the clothes they were buying at Ports' growing chain of stores were imported. Chan's marketers encouraged that perception, using high-profile models like Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer in their ad campaigns. Ports had obvious advantages over competition from other foreign luxury brands: it was less expensive and had much wider distribution. But its real assets were the intangibles the Cibanis picked up by living in and traveling around China. "We gained an amazing experience...
...cologne called Driven, with notes of grapefruit, driftwood and moss...
...lunch in the park/ I believe that it's called alfresco." The little old lady then gets mugged. Allen bemoans modern life over hyper '60s pop on Everything's Just Wonderful: "In the magazines they talk about weight loss/ If I buy those jeans I can look like Kate Moss." But the most withering put-downs are saved for ex-boyfriends - "Yeah you really must think you're great/ Let's see how you feel in a couple of weeks/ When I work my way through your mates" - Allen sings on Not Big and wiggles her little finger for anyone...
...recent years, Moss has taken that model global. In 2004 Macquarie bought the Asian securities operations of ING Barings, giving it more muscle to market its key infrastructure funds to retail and institutional investors. "The ING assets gave them a footprint in Asia which they didn't have before," says BT's Chemello. Macquarie subsequently went on a shopping spree. It invested in a South Korean toll-bridge project in Incheon for $64.6 million in 2005. Last December it bought a 40% stake in Taiwan Broadband, a cable operator in Taiwan, for roughly $200 million. A few months ago Macquarie...