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Any tribute to Ogden Nash's verse Requires a little life portrait of the man - what Time editors call bio-perse. Nash was the maternal grandson of a noted Louisville, Ky., feminist Who educated his own daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the...
The trend has been fueled by a handful of small niche designers, most of which barely existed five years ago and all claiming fans among the female cast members of Friends. These companies are turning impressive profits despite the existing competition of such stalwart manufacturers as the Gap, Old Navy...
When Perse and Dubois-Dumée spend a day buying the cerebral, sensual extravagances of Issey Miyake, the same general rules apply as when Kaplan cases Armani or when Judy Krull checks out Lagerfeld's surprisingly direct and swellegant new line, the first under his own name. In...
Bloomingdale's liked Lagerfeld's collection so much that there are already plans to "get behind it" in five of the chain's 15 stores. Perse of Maxfield liked it too, but the Lagerfeld company's insistence on a minimum order of $50,000 cooled his...
"Designers," responds Tommy Perse, "think everything they do is a seller. But they're wrong." If they think they are right, however, or if they do not like the way the store features their clothes, or if their business managers think the store has spent too little, designers can...