Word: soho
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This is vintage Greer, profane and highly quotable. Says Knopf president Sonny Mehta, who was at Cambridge with Greer in the 1960s and who, over lunch in London's Soho, encouraged her to write The Female Eunuch: "Germaine is a force." Her skill as a quick-change polemicist is what gives The Whole Woman its flashes of originality: she takes issues on which most progressive women thought they had positions and sets a standard all her own. You think advances in reproductive technology have been good for women? Well, writes Greer (who underwent failed fertility treatments), "I think it rather...
Beyond the universe of DKNY, DVF and other acronym wear, however, an independent spirit is quietly thriving. Indeed, the future of American dress seems secure on the sketchpads of a few young Manhattan designers, all of whom have gained a following without the benefit of big corporate backers, eponymous SoHo-based retail monuments or advertising campaigns...
...that's his choice. Even after 40 years in business, Estee Lauder would attend every launch of a new cosmetics counter or shop, traveling to such places as Moscow and other East European cities. On Saturdays she might go to her grandson's Origins store in Manhattan's hip SoHo district and say, "Let me teach you how to sell." Only declining health has halted those visits during the past few years...
...wired to an Internet connection that stays on while she stays home. Sophisticated telephones; the digital equivalents of Swiss Army knives that fax, copy and scan (but don't do your laundry yet); and videoconferencing equipment, like the QuickCam Pro, all fill out the small office/home office (SOHO) market that has become hugely affordable...
Women will love FashionMall.com www.fashionmall.com) which carves its world up thus: Madison, Soho and Galleria. The choice for guys is more limited. The Gap's online store www.gap.com is still the easiest to navigate and the best for the basics--for kids and toddlers too. Note the free shipping through the holidays, probably to compensate for the fact that there's a Gap just around the corner...