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Today the fur business has rebounded, and J. Mendel still sells minks that would make a Romanov swoon, but most people who stop by the store aren't there for the coats. Spotted by nighttime window shoppers, the diversionary dresses soon became a main attraction, and in the late 1990s, Mendel began designing feminine skirts and pantsuits for day and drop-dead dresses for night, many trimmed with a fur collar or hem. In January 2004, he showed his first ready-to-wear collection in New York City. The show drew raves and marked the successful repositioning of the brand...
Generational succession is something Mendel, 46, observed growing up in Paris, where his father and grandfather worked in the family's store on the Rue du Faubourg-St. Honoré. At first Mendel was reluctant to join them. ?I wanted to come to it from my heart, not by necessity,? he says, but in 1981 he began apprenticing with his father. After eight months, he struck out on his own. ?My dream was to open a beautiful store on Madison Avenue,? he says. His first stop in New York City was Fifth Avenue and the headquarters...
...opened the Madison Avenue store, taking over chief design duties for the label from his father, who still runs the Paris shop. The younger Mendel, however, wouldn't mind if the company, still privately held, lost the family management by being bought by a fashion conglomerate. ?I'd like to do accessories, bags, shoes,? he says. ?I'd also have a more global reach. For that, I need additional backing.? His timing seems perfect...
...i5871 5.8-GHz cordless phone is part of a system expandable to eight handsets using only one phone jack; other highlights include a digital answering device, color handset display and dual caller ID. And the Vertu Special Edition Ascent White has polished leather keys and soft backlighting, and can store up to 1,000 contacts and 150 texts...
SUSTAINABLE Innovative companies like the wildly successful organic-food chain Whole Foods Market and the Swedish mass-market furniture retailer Ikea have helped introduce the idea of sustainable lifestyle to the contemporary culture. Now Whole Foods has built a 2,000-sq.-ft. lifestyle store in West Hollywood out of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, and the company even uses reclaimed and reused furniture for displays. For its recent PS collection, Ikea asked 28 designers to think up ingenious ways to use such recycled materials as wood and plastic to create new home-décor products like the Ellan rocking...