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Sulmers’ fashion safari takes her from consignment stores to high-end locales. On a given Saturday, Sulmers rides the R-Train between Soho and Brooklyn, tearing through racks of massively marked-down designer jeans and rummaging through vintage threads, schmoozing with owners and snapping pictures as she shops. Later that night, photos and descriptions of the sales she saw go up on the blog...
...spiritual man (he practices feng shui and follows the teachings of philosopher Eric Butterworth). You won't see him taking a bow on the runway or featuring his homes in magazines (although he could: he recently bought News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's 9,300-sq.-ft. SoHo triplex for a reported $25 million). "My life is my work and vice versa," he says. "I told my wife that when we got married, she had to be involved with my work or we couldn't be together...
...human voice part) and introduced karaoke boxes - private singing rooms for small groups. And anyone in London can now indulge in this latest twist on the popular Asian pastime, thanks to lastminute.com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox. Her brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server...
...walking around the district, not really to campaign, but to help out. We arranged for people to knock on doors of the sick and the elderly. We organized food delivery, and arranged water supply, got emergency generators to buildings without power or water. It was so eerie walking in SoHo and Tribeca, with the gusts of dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone. It was a war zone...
...unhappy with the placement given his product, he pulled the brand out. (Esprit is still carried by Nordstrom.) Then in late 2004, he reintroduced Esprit retail stores and now has 15 stores and outlets, most of them in the New York City area, including a flagship in hip SoHo. Again, some of those locations flopped, so Krogner dispatched COO Jerome Griffith to oversee the U.S. operation. Krogner also plans to open five more stores this fiscal year in ultra-prime locations and intends to focus on the region from Boston to Washington...