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However, its most common walk-in customers have always been Harvard students, said Kate Tucker, a full time employee at the store...

Author: By June Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bow Street Flowers To Move | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...bunnies, ZuZu and Petals, often run free in the store, and are popular among students who pass the store on their way to and from class...

Author: By June Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bow Street Flowers To Move | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...CIAO! CIAO!? It's lunchtime in Milan, Italy, when most Milanese traditionally settle into a nice plate of risotto. But inside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store on Via della Spiga, the mood is frantic, with shoppers young and old slapping down credit cards for the label's signature $2,900 pin-striped pantsuits and $3,500 fur-trimmed coats. It seems there are not enough salespeople to handle the traffic, so Alberto Addis, the store's visual merchandiser, is lending a hand, greeting two women who have wandered past the acres of shiny black-glass walls and Murano-glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living la Vita Dolce & Gabbana | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

Back out in the store, two teenage girls are carefully sizing up a pair of jeans with broadtail patch pockets. ?Ciao !? Addis says when he spots them. He doesn't know them per se, but he quickly explains that the friendliness is part of the Dolce & Gabbana strategy. ? Other designers, they are very snob. Dolce and Gabbana are never snob,? he says. ?They are friendly. Ciao! Ciao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living la Vita Dolce & Gabbana | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

Back at the Via della Spiga store, the lunchtime rush is showing no sign of tailing off. Alberto Addis is straightening a shiny alligator bag that a customer has left askew, moving an eel-skin shoe back to its right place. There is no icy sense of ?please do not touch? here; everything has been handled. ?It's always like this,? Addis says. ?Our customer, maybe she comes to buy, maybe to touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living la Vita Dolce & Gabbana | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

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