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Brooks Brothers and Prada are enlisting high-tech partners to help improve their customer service. At the Prada Epicenter in New York City's trendy SoHo district, sales reps use handheld devices to scan garment tags that are fitted with Texas Instruments' R.F.I.D. (radio frequency identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens...
...Soho means chic in China these days, thanks to Beijing Redstone Industrie, a real estate firm owned by Chinese-born Pan Shiyi, 38, and his wife Zhang Xin, 35, a Cambridge-educated former Goldman, Sachs investment analyst. Condos in the company's debut project, Soho New Town, a sleek development, enjoyed sizzling sales among Beijing's burgeoning capitalist class despite prices of $241,000 to $422,000. Asian papers report that the travel-loving duo hopes to go public this year to fund construction of a hotel near the Great Wall, villas on Hainan island and more Beijing condos...
...than others. With her short hair pulled back in sparkly barrettes, funky jewelry dangling from her neck and Saucony sneakers peaking out from the bottom of her pants, Elizabeth H. Hagan ’02-’03 looks like she’d rather be at a SoHo coffee house than a formal tea party. But Hagan was born and raised in Atlanta and comes from a long line of debutantes. “I absolutely refused to participate in the process,” she says. “My mother had these letters [of recommendation] written...
...wake of Sept. 11, a small gallery space opened in SoHo in an effort to provide another venue for the expression of grief, following in the idea of healing through art. The concept of Here is New York is remarkably simple but equally profound: Anyone—from a snapshot-taking tourist to a professional photographer —can contribute images somehow relevant to the attacks; the images are digitally scanned, reprinted and hung. Anyone can order a printed copy of any image for $25, with profits being donated to relief efforts. The layout of the gallery space reflects...
...That's where his combination of enlightening and lightening up comes in handy. Yan Ming's balancing act between sage and giddy child, strict shifu and Drunken Master, endears him to everyone from the garbagemen in Astor Place to the frosty gatekeepers at Soho's snootiest watering holes. "I'm in it for my health," says Derrick Waller, a musclebound N.Y.P.D. detective, "and because shifu is mad cool." Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes take regular lessons. Musicians Bjork and Tricky drop in when they're in town. And the RZA, the mastermind behind rap collective Wu Tang Clan, checks...