Word: takashimaya
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Since then, over a million Uglydolls have been sold in 2,500 stores around the world (including high-end retailers like Barneys and Takashimaya), and last year Kim and Horvath's company, Pretty Ugly, did $2.5 million in sales. The dolls have amassed a cult following, with a fifth-anniversary convention, UglyCon, to be held in Los Angeles in December. "I'll bet there are toy-company boardrooms filled with Uglydoll samples and that they're scratching their heads as to why it works and why they didn't do it first," says Eric Nakamura, owner of L.A.-based Asian...
...contemporary clothing?the original BCBG Max Azria line?that is big business for upscale department stores around the world like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, Harvey Nichols, Hong Kong's Lane Crawford, Taiwan's Mitsukoshi and Singapore's Takashimaya. "They fill a lot of niches," says Frank Doroff, general merchandise manager at Bloomingdale's. "If you want clothes to go to work, to go out at night, a dress to wear to an occasion, they're trend right." Doroff says it all started with "the slinky dress," but what really put Azria on the map were his "sexy tops...
...smile. “Everyone at school loved it and wanted me to make bandanna ties for them.” Shemtov spotted an opportunity. After painstakingly making a number of sample ties at home, he pitched them to a manufacturing company and soon struck a deal with Takashimaya, an upscale Japanese department store in Midtown. Right then and there, the store bought his line, which includes a pink and green “double tie,” a kimono tie, and a bold metallic mesh tie. In the last year, the local overachiever has gone national. His line...
Claim to fame: Millennium Retailing Inc., the holding company headed by Wada, last year united two of Japan's largest department stores (Sogo and Seibu) to form the country's second largest department-store group (after Takashimaya...