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Private labels have helped department stores create a more distinctive identity. Says Ellin Saltzman, fashion director for Saks Fifth Avenue: "It grew out of a need for individuality among stores. For years we have all been selling the same designers in the same malls to the same customers." Moreover, designer goods have become prone to discounting wars. Says Marshall Beere, director of women's-apparel merchandising for J.C. Penney: "If the competition runs a sale, you have to respond. With your own labels, you don't have to do that...
...price of $4,100, the clothes are selling briskly. Bergdorf Goodman says it took $330,000 worth of orders in two days. Saks Fifth Avenue bought 27 styles, or most of the line. "I'm not sure I've ever seen quite as much of a phenomenon," says Ellin Saltzman, the store's fashion director, who remembers the '60s frenzies over Rudi Gernreich and Andre Courreges. Of such skyrocketing designers, she says, "I think it's scary for them...
...great turntable for $300, but that's just the beginning of what you could pay for a cd player," says Saltzman...
...pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights terminates effective today...
Last May, Reagan made yet another move: to replace Berry, Ramirez and Saltzman with three other Democrats, putatively closer to the President's way of thinking. They are Morris Abram, former president of Brandeis University; John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate...