Word: sportswear
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...development of these technologies is currently taking place largely in the biomedical and safety fields, but Annalisa Bonfiglio, a professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Cagliari who coordinates the Proetex project, thinks sports could be the sector where the most potential lies. "Sportswear is an extremely powerful means for promoting the acceptance of these new technologies by common people," says Bonfiglio, noting that the technology Proetex develops for rescue workers could easily be used later for sports applications...
Back home, plenty continues to change as well. In May, Brooks started rolling out stand-alone Country Club stores to play up the polos, shorts and tennis skirts in its popular sportswear collection. The new concept also speaks to another trend: nearly half of each Country Club store is devoted to women's clothing...
...always about the most expensive of the most expensive, but about what we can offer the customer that is not readily available," says Hall, who before overseeing the selling, marketing, merchandising and planning strategies of all 39 stores, as she does now, worked in everything from sportswear, fine apparel, dresses and handbags to shoes and beauty. "I grew up at Neiman Marcus," says Hall, who was raised in New Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does...
...Fashion is no longer regional, and the notion of American sportswear is no longer valid, nor does it look current," says Robert Burke, a luxury consultant. "I've seen shows this week that could easily have taken place in Paris or Milan." More and more, it is the itinerant lifestyles of multinational designers--many of whom frequently travel around the world to visit factories, stores and suppliers--and the global reach of the Internet that inspire the clothes they send down the runway...
...Like Posen, Francisco Costa, the Brazilian designer who several years ago took over for Calvin Klein when he retired, has mastered a sleek and chic kind of casual style. As far as continuing the sensibility of Klein, it works. To the simple sportswear shapes, Costa brings a refined sense of color and an appreciation for innovative fabrics. He opened the show with a passage of skinny, high-waisted pants in shades of chalk, pale pink and putty and then punctuated a crisp, natural palette with two drop-dead simple organza T-shirt dresses in grass green and - what else...