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...sample-sale alchemy is that the merchandise is of a high order. Whereas other discount sites source from third parties, Wilson and Maybank and their company, Gilt Groupe, based in New York City, work directly with each design house. "We are actually helping a lot of designers, especially in these challenging times, because we are able to sell so much volume that our sales are meaningful to designers." So meaningful that a recent Hervé Léger sale sold out in 45 minutes. Indeed, since the November 2007 launch, membership has grown to more than half a million, with several thousand...
...fashion's loftiest ranks, the concepts of luxury and discount go together about as well as navy and black, except in one rarefied setting: the sample sale. Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson set out to re-create that élite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales...
Guess that makes J.P. Licks’s $1 scoop day in honor of Opening Day a little anticlimactic. According to their Web site, J.P. Licks will be serving $1 scoops of ice cream and frozen yogurt today at all their locations from noon-9pm. If flavors like “rice DICE Kream” and “Pedroia’s Passion Fruit” aren’t enough to get you in the door, then maybe “the most fun pie ever” will...
HUTV has been making some changes this year. As if switching their name from Harvard Radcliffe Television to Harvard Undergraduate Television wasn’t revolutionary enough, HUTV has just launched its new Web site. To drum up excitement over the launch, members of HUTV tabled outside of the Science Center today and accosted passer-bys with the usual Science Center publicity mélange of flyers, candy, and blaring Britney tunes. Details of their exploits, pre-horrific rainstorm, after the jump...
...There's unlikely to be much awkwardness, however, when Obama encounters ordinary Czechs, among whom there is tremendous excitement over his visit. Thousands are expected to gather on Sunday when the President will speak at historic Hradcansky square next to the majestic Prague Castle, a site offering splendid views of the red-roofed, river-laced city. He is expected to talk about reducing the nuclear weapons proliferation. "I am absolutely thrilled," says Jiri Hlupy, 76, a set designer in the local movie industry. He hopes that Obama's presence will "wake up" squabbling Czech politicians...