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...When I went back there for Christmas last year I noticed that everyone was listening to the Carpenters and Burt Bacharach too," he says, sitting in his loft-like showroom in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district. Despite his fondness for Western things like '70s light music, Panichgul says his love of fashion, as well as his reserved, almost conservative sensibility, reflects his Eastern origins. "There is definitely an Asian influence in me; I just don't know where it's coming from...
...Sometimes it seems that Delhi's taxi drivers have only one suggestion for a visitor: "Want to see a handicrafts emporium?" If you're interested in overpriced trinkets churned out in sweatshops, take your cabby's offer. Inevitably, you'll find yourself in a claustrophobic showroom with someone at your elbow needling you to buy. The cabby, of course, gets a commission for delivering...
...Republican who does not want his wife clothed by a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. And while this is a gross--and deeply cynical--generalization, it's more charitable than another frequently suggested possibility, which is that designers are too myopic to concern themselves with anything outside their showroom...
...balmy day in July, Eliana Tranchesi stopped by the Balenciaga showroom in Paris to scrutinize the new season's handbags. With her honeyed mane, steely mien and enduring proclivity for body-skimming Dolce & Gabbana, Tranchesi is a familiar figure among the habitues of Europe's chicest ateliers. The Brazilian bombshell is the president and owner of Daslu, Latin America's most exclusive department store...
...million-sq.-ft. outdoor mall near the Mandalay Bay, which will further the invasion of stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And downtown is building a giant furniture showroom that hopes to steal business from San Francisco and maybe even North Carolina. Mayor Goodman hopes that in the future people will think of Vegas for gambling, sex and furniture...