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...knows only what he reads in the New York Post," and he has been observed, tabloid in hand, slobbering. Our worst fears are confirmed when we learn Nick has not cracked and an escalation of his agony is required. "Do you want me to bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings?" an underling asks the general in charge, his voice hushed by the enormity of the sadism proposed...
...into the same shows and held down desk space in the same sales offices, as they all dropped a bundle and bought the line. Then they all went home to endure the inevitable surprises when the shipments arrive several months later. "There's not a buyer alive," says Neiman-Marcus Senior Vice President Marilyn...
When David Wolfe of Neiman's went to Rome to buy the extravagant furs that Karl Lagerfeld turns out for Fendi, he and his assistants practiced a serviceable combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater because "we have to consider those big bouffant Texas hairdos. You can't expect clients to have to drag their furs over them." A dyed gray beaver jacket, with collar, pockets and cuffs furrowed like a plowed field, is "ideal for Mrs. Bowing." (All names have been changed...
...cushy corner of the marketplace. Numbers take on even greater weight closer to the hot center. Consider: a big chain like Bloomingdale's will spend somewhere around $10 million on designer apparel in Europe; a store like Maxfield, which is probably one-sixtieth the size of the smallest Neiman-Marcus outlet, may be good for $1 million. (These amounts do not include the budgets for nondesigner or private-label goods, nor do they take into account the money spent in the U.S. when the big-name New York City fashion shows get under way next week.) There were...
...Neiman-Marcus left behind 55% of its budget in Paris, 35% in Milan. Using those figures as a general guideline, it is fair to assume that the squadrons of American buyers dropped something near $75 million on the fashion capitals of Europe this spring...