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Vintage is penetrating the racks in less obvious ways as well. Innovative designers such as Koi Suwannagate are "re-purposing" used apparel and fabrics--from 1920s silk slips to '60s men's sweaters--to create new collections. And major designers--like Prada, whose printed circle skirts for spring are unabashedly reminiscent of the '50s--are more overtly drawing on bygone decades for inspiration. The result of all this is that the past is now an inextricable part of present fashion--on the runway, on the red carpet and on the rack. What's old is new, and what...
...Prada the company has not been immune to the economic downturn and has some challenges ahead, including a heavy load of debt that it has been working to pay off. But one thing Prada the woman is unafraid of is a good fight. And more often than not, she wins. --By Belinda Luscombe
Pearce, a seasoned entertainment lawyer who founded her New York City practice, Pearce LLP, last year, was drawn to fashion and design several years ago when the firm at which she was working scored Prada as a client. She savors the fact that no two negotiations are alike and, after concluding an agreement, often stays on as a consultant. "It's law, but it's law after business strategy," Pearce says. "You win by everybody winning." --By Katie Weisman
Although she oversees the design of the more than 500 million items that H&M sells every year, Van den Bosch is not an international celebrity like Karl (Lagerfeld) or Miuccia (Prada). When Van den Bosch started at the company, H&M was mostly buying up collections offered by Southeast Asian agents and putting them together in the store like pieces of a mismatched puzzle. In the late '80s, Van den Bosch began building a design team, and today it has access to the latest in computerized design software and color-matching programs, tools available only to billion-dollar international...
...design studios, there are computers at every workstation, and the runways are only a click away. Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs are interesting references, says Van den Bosch. "Prada is a very good designer but not someone we should look too much at. [The clothes] are made up with very exclusive fabrics and are very worked." In any case, copying is strictly forbidden, and an H&M spokeswoman says there have been very few complaints. H&M keeps its eye on competitors' marketing strategies too. The company may even invite a "star" designer to oversee a special collection...