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While the study looked at which air fresheners contain the chemicals and how much, it did not assess people's exposure to phthalates from these products - the size of the room, the distance from the air freshener and how long a person stays in the room are all factors that would affect potential toxicity. But like phthalates banned from U.K. beauty products, those in air fresheners can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin. "We're not saying that there's any clear-cut evidence here for health effects," says Dr. Gina Solomon of the NRDC. "If consumers want...
...Fifth Avenue flagship store, which hasn't been touched since the 1970s. In addition to redoing the entire store inside and out and opening a specialty eatery by Drew Nieporent (the restaurateur who operates Nobu and Tribeca Grill), Baker will shrink the store to a more manageable size and rent out the remaining space as luxury offices. The money made will be reinvested in the store...
Elfers started down the long road of repositioning the brand four years ago. A typical department store with 250,000 sq. ft. (about 23,000 sq m) can leverage its large size to get deep discounts on volume purchases. Lord & Taylor's petite 120,000 sq. ft. (11,000 sq m, aside from its New York store) made it tough to compete on promotions, price or depth of merchandise. So Elfers went smaller. In 2003 she closed 32 underperforming stores and then six more before the company's 2006 sale, placing the brand in higher-end markets. The profitable East...
...Size of Diesel's new Milan megastore...
...dare-get-fat way. But in person, she has an easy manner and is even a bit tousled. In the tearoom of the Plaza Athenée, around the corner from YSL's headquarters, Hermann stands out among the rich European women wearing tight jeans and toting suitcase-size designer bags. Angular and petite, she arrives carrying a miniversion of the patent-leather Downtown bag and unravels herself from an Army green trench coat to reveal a black-and-white checked dirndl skirt and sky-high sandals. Hermann confesses that she often blends her YSL wardrobe with other labels, like Herm?...