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...accessed in any store coast to coast. This technology is widely available, but Circuit City has been shrewd enough to feature its version in TV ads, fostering its image as a place where it's easy to return merchandise and where shopping is hassle free. Outdoor equipment retailer REI, based in Kent, Wash., makes smart use of technology, according to Forrester's Delhagen, by placing computer kiosks on its sales floor that allow the customer to search its entire inventory. "The store can't carry every size and shape of tent stake," Delhagen says, "so an associate will walk...
...taken as seriously as politics, Junya Watanabe's collections spark more scrutiny than the latest governmental bailout plan. Maybe it's because while the parliament mires the country in the same old, same old, Watanabe and the avant-garde designer pack he runs with--Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo--make Japan, and design aficionados worldwide, try to envision what is to come...
...divisions of class, real and perceived. Jack Welch, head of the 600,000-member Blue Ribbon Coalition of motorized recreationists, calls the greens "elitist." Many of his fellow drivers see their enemies either as rich ski folk defending their million-dollar chalets along the Volvo/Chardonnay line or as REI-outfitted granola eaters who want the backcountry to themselves. The greens in turn view the ATV crowd as an emission-spewing, beer-guzzling NASCAR subset that stops to smell the flowers only after running over them...
...exhibition called "2 Women" is devoted to two design icons who, in different eras and on different continents, radically changed the way women dress: Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese woman who founded Comme des Garçons in 1969 and showed it in Paris in 1981, and the legendary Coco Chanel. Kawakubo will be staging five different runway shows around the city over the course of the festival's run. "Rei didn't want something static," said Van Saene, who curated this exhibition. Chanel, who died in 1971, didn't have a choice. She gets an exhibit in the former Royal...
...aggressive tactics of the Japanese paparazzi stand in stark contrast to the behavior of the designers. After her show, Rei Kawakubo doesn't come out for the customary bow. Journalists looking to go backstage to congratulate her are turned away. She also rarely grants interviews, saying the clothes should speak for themselves. This season her collection featured bulky bras worn over dresses, corsets left undone, pants that bared the bottom when models moved. The reviews, all glowing, used phrases like "whatever it meant" and "whatever she was trying to say." Says Richard Buckley, editor of Vogue Homme: "Like other artists...