Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part a response to the user-friendly Sephora, Bergdorf Goodman, the posh Manhattan department store, is nearly tripling the size of its cosmetics floor and adding a multitude of new services, including free makeovers and informal seminars on anti-aging treatments. The cosmetics floors at Bloomingdale's stores in Manhattan and Century City, Calif., have recently finished renovations to make their products more accessible to customers and the sales turf easier to navigate...
Indeed, the goal of making stores inviting and confusion free has been reflected in store design. The notion of austere, open space--all the rage in chic urban boutiques during the '80s and early '90s--is now coming to an end, in the opinion of Paul Bennett, a retail architect who has designed shops for DKNY and Anne Klein. "Now the design has to be more welcoming, more intimate," he says. Bennett, who is working on shops for Calvin Klein's CK division, has helped popularize the concept of "zoning"--the creation of a series of small spaces within...
...hard to top Betsy Berman, a marketing consultant. She and husband Dennis Sinclair got married two years ago at the Chicago branch of Crate & Barrel. The bridal procession came up the escalator, and vows were exchanged amid the candlesticks and crockery. Which might be the ultimate example of in-store entertainment--at least until someone decides to give birth at a Baby...
What I enjoyed most about my conversations with John Campbell was that they hardly existed. We spoke--at the post office, at the village store, whenever he pulled over to the curb on his bike--two, three times a month. But we said very little. In the still, blank autumn afternoons like these, our silence abetted the season. One of us would open with some typically male, moderately hearty greeting; the other would follow with an observation about essentially nothing, like the lowering sky; the other would grunt or nod; John would pedal away, and that would be that...
...Lucinda Williams), Griffith is host to an all-star sing-out: great versions of He Was a Friend of Mine and Wasn't That a Mighty Storm. For the young, this package will offer not memories but revelations, if they can just find it--in the back of the store, under FOLK...