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...trendsetter with inspirational expressions of fashion. Connoisseurs make up about 50% of BCBG's clientele, whereas visionaries are a "very little" slice of the pie and socialites fall somewhere in between. "Customers shop by taste level, not by whatever's hot," says Lubov. "We're training sales associates to pin customers and call them when something new comes in." It's a uniquely personal approach for a company with as many stores as BCBG. "We think of ourselves as a boutique, not a chain," she says...
...events. And machine-dispensed downloads of music videos and TV shows is also a future possibility. Since teenagers will make up a big part of the market, the Coke machines' main payment method is cash (though they accept credit cards). Vodafone's kiosks, however, also accept chip-and-pin debit cards, which is crucial given the handsets retail for a bit more than pocket change, between $55 to $150. Vodafone's goal is simple: it makes no money from selling phones, but from the voice and data traffic they deliver to its network. So it wants to get Vodafone-networked...
...Brad, Jen and Angelina. That's so last year. This time out, it's KATE HUDSON and her rock-star husband CHRIS ROBINSON, who announced last week that they had split after six years of matrimony and one baby boy, now 2 1/2. The gossipiest of the gossip mags pin the blame on Hudson's You, Me and Dupree co-star Owen Wilson. Their publicists insist that Hudson and Wilson are just good friends...
...past I wanted to audition for period pieces, and people kept saying I look too modern. All you have to do is pin-curl my hair and put me in a gown, and I'll look different. But there's not a lot of imagination in this town. Keira Knightley may be dying to get out of corsets, but I'm dying to get into...
...Senior Fellow Marshall Wittmann, who was wearing a Lieberman pin attached to his DLC name tag at the Denver meeting, warned that if Lieberman - the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee - falls victim to the party's angry, netroots-driven forces, "it will likely have the result of driving the Democratic presidential primaries to the left in 2008." In that case, he and others worry, the kind of middle-class-oriented ideas that were being offered by the DLC as its "American Dream Initiative" would likely get lost in the larger political currents. "The question is," he says, "will the activist...