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...might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and Vanity Fair and onto the racks of high-end retailers like L'Eclaireur in Paris and Barneys Japan in Tokyo. "We haven't invented anything new," explains Chanin about pieces that retail from $400 to $15,000. "We're just taking old techniques and using them in new ways...
Eleven years ago, an obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivered a brand-spanking-new franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with...
...University and the community,” said David McGregor, the managing partner of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the firm hired last June to develop the University’s institutional master plan. “A good way to bring the University and the community together is through retail...
...employee from a retail establishment in Cambridge reporteed that unknown person(s) entered the store, looked around for about 45 minutes, and then unplugged a 17-inch flat screen monitor and left with it. 10:35 p.m.—a Rindge Ave. resident reported that her fiance pushed her and hit her in the head, face, and arms with a pair of flip flops. The assault is the result of an argument over money. The reporting person stated that she sustained bruises but no other injury requiring medical attention. A restraining order was advised and refused...
...Superstar investors contemplating the frothier realms of the market should be getting nervous. Indiabulls, a financial-services firm that hopes to profit as wealthier Indians buy more stocks, has seen its shares quintuple since last fall, while shares of Pantaloon Retail?a chain of clothing stores, malls and supermarkets?have risen eighteenfold in two years as investors bet on the spending power of the Indian shopper. But such gains are less a reflection of unlimited promise than of limited supply, with investors bidding up the few stocks that offer a way to play these trends...