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Women jazz singers are popping up like new sitcoms these days, but Kendra Shank's delectable voice--warm-toned, fine-grained, quietly sexy--sets her well apart from the crowd, as does her knack for picking unhackneyed, slightly off-center material (Abbey Lincoln's Angel Face, Jule Styne's You Say You Care). Add in the crystalline piano playing of Frank Kimbrough, and you get an album that clings to the memory. The up-tempo tunes swing hard; the ballads shimmer and shine. Get in on the ground floor: this lady is going...
Levi's, which has stayed true-blue to its denim, has been slow to move on fashion trends like the currently favored wide-leg pants. "It's a fair assessment to say we were behind in fashion," says Gordon Shank, president of Levi Strauss, the Americas. "Levi's strength is that it is never the most fashionable but the most relevant." But that has cost the company. Levi Strauss's U.S. sales last year hit $4.3 billion, but fierce competition and a leveling off of demand forced it to announce last week a round of belt-tightening measures. The company...
...stodgy retailers have attracted the most discriminating jeans buyers: teens. In a recent poll of favored brands of jeans, conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, Arizona ranked second. "The very retailers we sell to have cracked the code on how to create and sell their own brand," acknowledges Levi's Shank...
Meanwhile, Levi's is in the midst of "assessing every aspect of market mix to protect and maintain leadership," including its once vaunted advertising, according to Shank. Next fall it will launch Red Line, a blend of traditional- and contemporary-style jeans. Says Shank: "Anybody can bring out a wide-leg jean. Only we can bring the individuality of our brand." Levi's had better start stitching soon...
...more than a second, light can travel all the way from the moon to the earth, but in a femtosecond it traverses a distance that is but one hundredth the width of a human hair. "This sort of time scale is almost impossible to imagine," exclaims L.B.L. director Charles Shank, who helped pioneer the technology...