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...platform sandals and Liberty printed chiffon gowns, the mix of Topshop's trend-driven merchandise can appeal to a broad selection of consumers. The price is also right: Topshop's coveted Baxter jeans are $80, and the average shoe price is about $100. The brand's Oxford Circus flagship store in London - which, at 90,000 sq. ft., is one of the biggest fashion retail spaces in the world, is a favorite pit stop for celebs like Chloë Sevigny, Keira Knightley and Kirsten Dunst. In New York City, Green and his team of 17 designers plan to stock...
...flamboyantly dressed, long-haired hippies named Anthony Bourke and John Rendall purchased a lion cub from London's upscale department store Harrods - which, at the time, traded in exotic animals - and brought him to live in their Chelsea furniture store in the heart of Swinging London. Christian lived in the store, aptly named Sophisticat, for five months. He played well with children, was litter-trained, and only ruined the store's furniture by accident. But even the most domesticated lion is still too wild for London, so Bourke and Rendall embarked on the long, arduous task of rehabilitating their oversized...
...consumer has already lost faith in his own ability to buy things. He knows he might lose his job, he might not qualify for a loan, that his house is worthless, and that the local Sears (SHLD) was closed. If he wants to return something he bought at the store, he will need to drive 50 miles to do it. People who have trouble buying things that they need probably do not want to have their problems compounded by worrying about what they should do if something they buy suddenly breaks...
Significant belt-tightening measures are in store for Massachusetts State leaders looking to close a widening projected $6 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year in light of the economic recession, according to state lawmakers. State Representative Charles Murphy and Secretary of Administration and Finance Leslie Kirwan stressed the need for budget cuts and budgetary redistribution, particularly in the health care sector, to ease economic strain in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government last night. The panel also included Kennedy School Senior Associate Dean and Lecturer in Public Policy Peter B. Zimmerman. Murphy and Kirwan...
...sales may have slumped, the spirit of some of Russia's rich remains breezy. The élite GUM shopping mall, situated on Red Square, has seen its number of shoppers fall some 30% this year, according to Ageyeva, the buyer. But Lilya Bondarchuk, a manager at the Jil Sander store in GUM, says that "clients joke about the crisis and ask each other if they have noticed it yet." Natalya Batalova, a corporate attorney who shops at GUM every few months, says she hasn't felt the crisis so far. "I don't know what it is," she says with...