Word: pakzad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan Pakzad. "It's protection in a chic way. To me, everyone who is rich and loves guns will want...
...exist, for example, in conspicuous-consumption California. Ross Gilbert, owner of Beverly Hills Mercedes-Benz, has plenty of customers willing to put down $45,000 for a new 450 SLC. In the first four months of the year, Gilbert sold more than 55 new cars, a record. Says Bijan Pakzad, the owner of a prosperous men's boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, where shirts can cost $180: "The stores that will do well will be the very, very expensive and the very, very cheap...