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...Designer Disgrace Re "Paper, Plastic or Prada?" [Aug. 27]: years ago, my Italian mother-in-law gave me a string bag (which I still use) to carry my groceries in, explaining how deplorable it was to waste all those plastic and paper bags from the market. Notwithstanding the silliness of the label-conscious, how could anyone buy a reusable bag (Hermès') that stows in a calfskin case? The suffering that calves go through for the production of this vanity item is unconscionable. Nancy Pennington, SEATTLE...
...crosnes, tiny curlicue-shaped, artichoke-flavored roots, with his bare hands. A Danish TV crew is taking close-ups of my shoes punching through the frozen mud crust. It's hard to say which they find more entertaining: the idea that someone would visit a root-vegetable farm in Prada heels or that anyone would travel to the Nordic region in search of haute cuisine...
TOKYO The Japanese believe that yellow wallets bring riches, but gold wallets like Prada's Saffiano Metal Oro ($453) make you even richer
...Hong Kong and regional offices in mainland China, ImagineX (part of the Lane Crawford Joyce Group) represents 23 high-end fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands in more than 360 points of sale in greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan). But it doesn't stop there. While, for example, Prada and Gucci are not on her books anymore, it was Wong who provided the springboard for both into mainland China, and she continues an association as their landlord through the Walton Brown Group's shopping malls, the most prestigious of which are specialty designer stores called Maison Mode...
Pilati arrived at YSL from Prada seven years ago as an assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...