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...through a huge investment in real estate development and tax incentives to attract business. The mayor says those efforts have created more than 10,000 local jobs. Most of them, however, are either high-tech positions beyond the skills of many Milwaukee residents or low-wage service slots in retail shops and chain restaurants that pay less than needed to support a family...
...where fashion is today.Haute couture, to make the distinction, is the name given to a one-of-a-kind, hand-made garment that can cost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ready-to-wear clothing, on the other hand, is manufactured in all sizes and available for retail purchase.A strength of the exhibit overall is the fashion show footage playing alongside each designer’s collection. Seeing the clothes in front of you move down the runway is a nice addition to the exhibit, even it is sometimes more engrossing than the clothes themselves. The most cutting...
...functions as a platform for first-rate, intellectually ambitious shows, must also struggle for revenue in less pristine ways. So like any other museum these days, it will have rentable party spaces and a gift shop, this one with an entrance pointed strategically in the direction of new retail development that's planned for an area across the way. (Yoo-hoo! Shoppers! Over here!) But why shouldn't it? For better or worse, no museum can survive today if it doesn't make itself visible in the marketplace. Diller and Scofidio would know that, of course. They think...
...somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid $200 for large-carat diamonds that would easily retail...
...helped tighten industry oversight even before the film's release. In the run-up to the holiday period--peak season for diamond sales and blockbuster movies--the public spat makes an interesting study of how a big studio movie can threaten a $60 billion-a-year global retail industry, one that has previously thrived on its association with all things Hollywood, and how that business can fight back...