Word: shoes
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...gaggle of shopgirls on their breaks. The few customers loitering around appear to be just window-shopping. Nearly half of the mall's original restaurants shut down in the first year after opening. The parking garage's 10,000 spaces host a handful of cars. Xiao Chen, a shoe salesman, states the obvious: business stinks. "Monthly sales here are not as much as a weekly sales in other stores located in those shopping centers downtown," Xiao says. "But what can we do? No traffic...
...Meanwhile, retailers at Golden Resources say they have little choice but to hang on in hopes that customers will eventually discover the megamall. Xiao, the shoe salesman, is upbeat. "The store manager always tells us we should persevere, it will be getting better," he says. It's hard to imagine things getting worse. As a mall security guard dryly observes: "On weekdays we have so few cars, this must be the best parking lot in Beijing." Unfortunately for the builders, it's a parking lot attached to 6 million sq. ft. of unloved retail space...
...Radical shape, especially the squared off kind, seems to be a theme at the couture shows this season. Bruno Frissoni, the affable shoe designer who also heads up the creative direction of the house of Roger Vivier, presented a small collection of couture shoes and bags in his first-floor office on the Faubourg St.-Honore. The most stunning pair was called "Boxes" and consisted of black and gold lacquered wooden boxes stacked on top of each other to form a heel and a sole. "It's like placing your foot on a console," Frissoni said. Most of the collection...
...rest of the media and all of Gore's Hollywood sycophants have got so far into this that it is inconceivable for them to think that the theory might be wrong. Why? Because it would make you all look like a bunch of fools. Then again, if the shoe fits ... Peter Yurk, LAS VEGAS...
...addition, Chertoff has practice tuning out political pressure. Early in his career, he left a lucrative job at a white-shoe law firm to put away Mob bosses as a first assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. In 2006 the DHS Secretary weathered a call for his resignation from Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, then the Senate minority leader, because Las Vegas had been denied security dollars...