Word: showrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a peek at the guy in the baseball cap. Short fella. Kinda homely. Ears hanging out there like wind spoilers. Talks with a trace of a lisp. Looks like he'd be at home on the showroom floor of any Sears store in Middle America, moving metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves...
When Karan was growing up, the rag trade was a family tradition. Her father, who died when she was 3, was a custom tailor. Her mother worked as a showroom model and saleswoman. Her stepfather sold women's apparel. Karan studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, then worked as an assistant to the legendary Anne Klein. When Klein died in 1974, Karan was named her successor. At that moment she was the 26-year-old mother of a week-old baby...
...There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business started by their father. "They are just sitting, waiting for the future." The carvers are family to each other and have little life outside the factory. They live in the showroom, sleeping there on boards...
...Tokyo, have accounted for as much as half the ivory entering Japan in recent years. Kitagawa, 47, is a stern man who presides over an industry in turmoil. He was twelve when he was introduced to what has been his family's business for nearly a century. His showroom, scanned by video cameras and kept moist by humidifiers, features a towering ivory pagoda and cases filled with ornate carvings. His computers track the movements of tons of ivory. Half of Kitagawa's stock goes to making figurines, about a third to name seals and the rest to jewelry...
Both teams are ready for the NCAA showroom...